Naidu v. Superior Court of Riverside Cnty.

*305Petitioners, Jimmy and Uma Naidu, challenge a trial court order preventing them from using their licenses from the Contractors' State Licensing Board (CSLB) as a condition of bail. Because we agree that this condition could not have been imposed without some sort of evidentiary hearing at which it was established that the bail condition was necessary to protect the public, we grant the petition.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Petitioners allegedly sold at least one of their business licenses to one Raj Suri, whose own CSLB license was suspended, and then failed to supervise Suri despite…