( November 12, 2026, 12:22 PM EST) -- LOS ANGELES — Declining to dismiss a claim of elder financial abuse in a pro se claimant’s suit over disability income benefits, a California federal judge said the claim under California’s Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act can be stated “by alleging that the defendant (1) breached a contract; and (2) acted with knowledge that the breach ‘is likely to be harmful to the elder’.”...