• Boling v. Public Employment Relations Board (City of San Diego)

    Publication Date: 2017-04-12
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law | Labor Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-04-11
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Petition for extraordinary relief from a decision of the Public Employment Relations Board. Decision annulled.
    for defendant: J. Felix de la Torre, Wendi L. Ross, Mary Weiss, and Joseph W. Eckhart for Respondent.

    Case Number: No. D069626 No. D069630

    Citizen-sponsored ballot initiative not subject to Meyers-Milias-Brown Act meet-and-confer requirements (McConnell, P.J.)

  • People v. Douglas

    Publication Date: 2017-04-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-04-11
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Dane R. Gillete, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Carlos A. Martinez, Kari Ricci Mueller, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Kieran D. C. Manjarrez, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. C072881

    Mixed motive analysis appropriate where prosecutor stated both neutral and non-neutral reasons for excusing gay jurors (Hull, J.)

  • People v. Martinez

    Publication Date: 2017-04-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-03-09
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Kathleen Alice Kenealy, Chief Deputy and Acting Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler and Julie L. Garland, Assistant Attorneys General, Sharon Rhodes and Ryan H. Peeck, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Charles R. Khoury, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant, Francisco Jose Martinez.

    Case Number: No. D067052 No. D067561

    California law criminalizing fraud in sale of securities included fraudulent "money management" contracts (O'Rourke, J.)

  • California Chamber of Commerce v. State Air Resources Board

    Publication Date: 2017-04-07
    Practice Area: Environmental Law | Regulation
    Industry: Non–Profit
    Date Filed: 2017-04-06
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nielsen Merksamer Parrinello Gross & Leoni, James R. Parrinello, Steven A. Merksamer, Kurt R. Oneto, Christopher E. Skinnell and Eric J. Miethke for Plaintiffs and Appellants California Chamber of Commerce and Larry Dicke.
    for defendant: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Robert W. Byrne, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Gavin G. McCabe, Molly K. Mosley, Deputy Attorney General, David A. Zonana, Robert E. Asperger, M. Elaine Meckenstock, and Bryant B. Cannon, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendants and Respondents.

    Case Number: No. C075930 No. C075954

    State Air Resources Board's "cap-and-trade" auction program not unlawful tax (Duarte, J.)

  • People v. Scott

    Publication Date: 2017-04-05
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-04-04
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Assistant Attorney General, Colleen M. Tiedemann and Michael C. Keller, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Kevin D. Sheehy, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. B270426

  • Batze v. Safeway, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2017-04-05
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Retail
    Date Filed: 2017-04-04
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniels, Fine, Israel, Schonbuch & Lebovits, Paul R. Fine, Scott A. Brooks and Craig S. Momita; Law Offices of Ian Herzog and Ian Herzog; Law Offices of Stephen Glick and Stephen Glick for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Littler Mendelson, J. Kevin Lilly, R. Brian Dixon and Philip L. Ross for Defendants and Respondents.

    Case Number: No. B258732

    Employer claiming employees' tasks were primarily managerial not required to document each and every week (Manella, J.)

  • People v. Bryant

    Publication Date: 2017-04-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-04-03
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Assistant Attorney General, Zee Rodriguez, and Andrew S. Pruitt, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: David R. Greifinger, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. B271300

    Electronic search condition not reasonably related to preventing future criminality of defendant convicted of illegal weapons possession (Rothschild, P.J.)

  • People v. Van Orden

    Publication Date: 2017-03-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-03-23
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Julie L. Garland, Assistant Attorney General, Barry Carlton, and Sabrina Y. Lane-Erwin, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Richard Power, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. E066432

    Unlawful taking of $700 car qualified as petty theft under Prop 47 (Slough, J.)

  • People v. Russell

    Publication Date: 2017-03-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-03-17
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Julie L. Garland, Assistant Attorney General, Peter Quon, Jr., Randall D. Einhorn, and Christopher P. Beesley, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Mark D. Johnson, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. E064121

    Cite as 17 C.D.O.S. 2612 THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. LAMONTE TYREE RUSSELL, Def

  • Y.R. v. A.F.

    Publication Date: 2017-03-16
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-02-24
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walzer Melcher, Christopher C. Melcher and Steven K. Yoda for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Cuneo & Hoover, J. Nicholas Cuneo and Janina A. Verano for Defendant and Respondent.

    Case Number: No. B266621

    Cite as 17 C.D.O.S. 2477 Y.R., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. A.F., Defenda