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  • Rubenstein v. Doe No. 1

    Publication Date: 2017-08-28
    Practice Area: Government | Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry: Education
    Date Filed: 2017-08-28
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Law Offices of Elliot N. Kanter, Elliott N. Kanter; Esner, Chang & Boyer, Holly N. Boyer and Shea S. Murphy for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Daley & Heft, Lee H. Roistacher, Richard J. Schneider, Reece A Roman; Jackson Lewis, Leila Nourani, Sherry L. Swieca and Douglas M. Egbert for Defendants and Respondents.
    Case Number:

    Delayed discovery statute does not extend accrual date for government claims (Chin, J.)

  • Briggs v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2017-08-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-08-24
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Christina Von der Ahe Rayburn and Lillian Jennifer Mao for Petitioner.
    for defendant: Kathleen A. Kenealy, Acting Attorney General, Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, Douglas J. Woods, Assistant Attorney General, Marc A. LeForestier and Jose A. Zelidon-Zepeda, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondents.
    Case Number:

    Prop 66's five-year time limit on resolution of death penalty appeals and habeas petitions must be deemed directive rather than mandatory (Corrigan, Acting C.J.)

  • People v. Pennington

    Publication Date: 2017-08-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-08-17
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Dane R. Gillette and Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Lance E. Winters, Assistant Attorney General, Linda C. Johnson, Michael R. Johnsen, Victoria B. Wilson and Theresa A. Patterson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Mark R. Feeser, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.
    Case Number:

    Evidence failed to support finding that harbor patrol officer's "primary duty" was law enforcement (Werdegar, J.)

  • Parrish v. Latham and Watkins

    Publication Date: 2017-08-10
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Trade Secrets
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Date Filed: 2017-08-10
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eagan Avenatti, Michael J. Avenatti, Scott H. Sims; Panish, Shea & Boyle, Brian J. Panish, Adam K. Shea, Kevin R. Boyle; Esner, Chang & Boyer and Stuart B. Esner for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr., Julian W. Poon, Jeremy S. Smith; McKool Smith Hennigan, J. Michael Hennigan and Michael Swartz for Defendants and Respondents.
    Case Number:

    Denial of defendant's summary judgment motion trigger interim adverse judgment rule despite later finding of plaintiffs' bad faith (Kruger, J.)

  • Friends of Eel River v. North Coast Railroad Authority (Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company)

    Publication Date: 2017-07-27
    Practice Area: Environmental Law | Transportation
    Industry: Transportation
    Date Filed: 2017-07-27
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Shute Mihaly & Weinberger, Ellison Folk, Amy J. Bricker, Edward T. Schexnayder and Laura D. Beaton for Plaintiff and Appellant Friends of the Eel River.
    for defendant: Neary & O'Brien and Christopher J. Neary for Defendants and Respondents North Coast Railroad Authority and Board of Directors of North Coast Railroad Authority.
    Case Number:

    Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act of 1995 does not preempt application of CEQA to state railroad project to a railroad project (Cantil-Sakauye, C.J.)

  • People v. DeLeon

    Publication Date: 2017-07-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-07-24
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Dane R. Gillette and Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Allen R. Crown, Allan Yannow, Stephen G. Herndon, Rachelle A. Newcomb and Darren K. Indermill, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Roberta Simon, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.
    Case Number:

    Parolee entitled to probable cause hearing within 15 days of arrest for violating parole (Corrigan, J.)

  • People v. Jones

    Publication Date: 2017-07-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-07-20
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Assistant Attorney General, Joseph P. Lee and Viet H. Nguyen, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Michael J. Hersek, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Jessica K. McGuire, Assistant State Public Defender, and Ellen J. Eggers, Deputy State Public Defender, for Defendant and Appellant.
    Case Number:

    Exclusion of testimony describing prosecutor's efforts to secure additional witnesses harmless error (Kruger, J.)

  • In re R.T.

    Publication Date: 2017-07-20
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-07-20
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark J. Saladino, County Counsel, Mary C. Wickham, Interim County Counsel, Dawyn R. Harrison, Assistant County Counsel, William D. Thetford, Principal Deputy County Counsel, and Stephen D. Watson, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.No appearance for Minor.
    for defendant: Nancy Rabin Brucker, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.
    Case Number:

    Showing of parental fault not required for exercise of dependency jurisdiction over out-of-control minor (Chin, J.)

  • Lewis v. Superior Court (Medical Board of California)

    Publication Date: 2017-07-17
    Practice Area: Privacy | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Date Filed: 2017-07-17
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fenton Nelson, Fenton Law Group, Henry R. Fenton, Dennis E. Lee and Benjamin J. Fenton for Petitioner.
    for defendant: No appearance for Respondent.Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Edward C. DuMont, State Solicitor General, Kathleen A. Kenealy, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gloria L. Castro, Assistant Attorney General, Janill L. Richards, Principal Deputy State Solicitor General, Aimee Feinberg, Deputy State Solicitor General, Kathleen Vermazen Radez and Samuel P. Siegel, Associate Deputy State Solicitor General, E.A. Jones III and Edward K. Kim, Deputy Attorneys General, for Real Party in Interest.
    Case Number: No. S219811

    Medical Board's accessing of patient prescription records did not violate patient privacy rights (Liu, J.)

  • Cleveland National Forest Foundation v. San Diego Association of Governments

    Publication Date: 2017-07-13
    Practice Area: Environmental Law | Transportation
    Industry: Transportation | State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-07-13
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin P. Bundy; Cory J. Briggs Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger, Rachel B. Hooper, Amy J. Bricker, Erin B. Chalmers; Daniel P. Selmi; Coast Law Group and Marco Gonzalez for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Julie D. Wiley; Cox, Castle & Nicholson, Michael H. Zischke, Andrew B. Sabey, Linda C. Klein; The Sohagi Law Group, Margaret M. Sohagi and Philip A. Seymour for Defendants and Appellants.
    Case Number:

    CEQA did not mandate EIR analysis of transportation plan's consistency with 2005 executive order's greenhouse gas emission reduction goals (Liu, J.)