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  • People v. Superior Court (Rodas)

    Publication Date: 2017-04-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-04-13
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Catherine Chatman and R. Todd Marshall, Supervising Deputy Attorneys General, Larenda R. Delaini and Nicholas M. Fogg, Deputy Attorneys General for Petitioner.
    for defendant: No appearance for Respondent. Tracie Olson, Public Defender, Ronald Johnson, Deputy Public Defender for Real Party in Interest.
    Case Number: No. C082363

    Probationer had no right to withdraw eight-year old no contest plea or to take advantage of intervening change in law (Hull, Acting P.J.)

  • Gabrielle A. v. County of Orange

    Publication Date: 2017-04-20
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-03-24
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dordi Williams Cohen, Reuven L. Cohen and Anya J. Goldstein for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Woodruff, Spradlin & Smart, Daniel K. Spradlin and Roberta A. Kraus for Defendants and Respondents.
    Case Number: No. G051784

    Parents' no contest pleas to dependency jurisdiction barred later claims of minors' wrongful detention by county social workers (Moore, J.)

  • Featherstone v. Southern California Permanente Medical Group

    Publication Date: 2017-04-20
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Health Care
    Date Filed: 2017-04-19
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nixon Peabody, Michael R. Lindsay, Alicia C. Anderson and Mae K. Hau for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Rushovich Mehtani, Aanand Ghods-Mehtani and Lisa M. Watanabe-Peagler for Defendant and Appellant.
    Case Number: No. B275225

    Employer's refusal to allow employee to rescind prior resignation not adverse employment action under FEHA (Johnson, J.)

  • Baranchik v. Fizulich

    Publication Date: 2017-04-20
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-04-19
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: The Beck Law Firm and Thomas E. Beck, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester, Mildred K. O'Linn, Tony M. Sain and Mae G. Alberto, for Defendants and Respondents.
    Case Number: No. B268133

    Conviction for resisting an officer barred plaintiff's claim of excessive force (Kriegler, J.)

  • In re Edward B.

    Publication Date: 2017-04-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-03-21
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for Appellant: Clifford Stanley.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Respondents: Kathleen A. Kenealy, Acting Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey M. Laurence, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Donna M. Provenzano, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Violet M. Lee, Deputy Attorney General.
    Case Number: No. A148887

    Gang condition not reasonably related to juvenile offender's crime of purse snatching (Miller, J.)

  • Quigley v. Garden Valley Fire Protection District

    Publication Date: 2017-04-19
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-04-19
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jay-Allen Eisen Law Corporation, Jay-Allen Eisen; Law Offices of Reiner & Slaughter, Russell Reiner, Todd E. Slaughter and April K. Gesberg for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, Joseph A. Salazar, Jr., Jeffry A. Miller and Jonna D. Lothyan for Defendants and Respondents.
    Case Number: No. C079270

    Statutory immunity applied to firefighter's injuries suffered when run over by vehicle at base camp (Butz, Acting P.J.)

  • McDermott Will and Emery LLP v. Superior Court (Hausman)

    Publication Date: 2017-04-19
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Date Filed: 2017-04-18
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, James P. Fogelman, Julian W. Poon, Shannon E. Mader and Jennafer M. Tryck for Petitioners.
    for defendant: No appearance for Respondent. Sall Spencer Callas & Krueger, Robert K. Sall, Suzanne Burke Spencer and Michael A. Sall for Real Parties in Interest.
    Case Number: No. G053623

    Attorneys properly disqualified for using privileged documents inadvertently disclosed by opposing party (Aronson, J.)

  • In re J.S.

    Publication Date: 2017-04-19
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-04-05
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jean-Rene Basle, County Counsel, and Adam E. Ebright, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: William D. Caldwell, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant J.K.
    Case Number: No. E067122

    Parent's due process rights violated by exclusion of evidence pertaining to sibling relationship exception to termination of parental rights (McKinster, J.)

  • People v. Paz

    Publication Date: 2017-04-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-04-14
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Victoria B. Wilson, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Roberta L. Davis, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Richard D. Miggins, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
    Case Number: No. B265251

    Crime of sodomy does not require penetration into anus (Lavin, J.)

  • In re J. L.

    Publication Date: 2017-04-13
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-04-05
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Montgomery, County Counsel, John E. Philips, Chief Deputy County Counsel, and Lisa M. Maldonado, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Steven B. Duke, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
    Case Number: No. D070826

    Parent's claim of "possible" native American ancestry insufficient to trigger duty of further inquiry under ICWA (Aaron, J.)