• People v. Superior Court (Walker)

    Publication Date: 2017-06-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-06-08
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael A. Hestrin, District Attorney, and Donald W. Ostertag, Deputy District Attorney for Petitioner.
    for defendant: No appearance for Respondent. Robert J. Booher, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Real Party in Interest.

    Case Number: No. D071461

    Prop 57 not effective retroactively (Aaron, J.)

  • Guan v. Hu

    Publication Date: 2017-06-05
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Contractual Disputes | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Date Filed: 2017-06-02
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Arent Fox, Malcolm S. McNeil, Allan E. Anderson and Ismael Bautista, Jr., for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Dominic Surprenant and Daniel H. Bromberg for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. B276546

    "Adjustment of equities" did not provide authority for award of damages to non-prevailing party (Johnson, J.)

  • Orange County Water District v. Alcoa Global Fasteners, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2017-06-02
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: Manufacturing | State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-06-01
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Connor, Fletcher & Hedenkamp, Edmond M. Connor, Douglas A. Hedenkamp; Miller & Axline, Duane C. Miller, Michael D. Axline and Justin Massey for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, R. Gaylord Smith, Malissa McKeith, Ernest Slome, Thomas Teschner and Brittany H. Bartold for Defendant and Respondent Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation.

    Case Number: No. D070771

    Water district may be able to recover some of future costs associated with groundwater protection program (Haller, J.)

  • Ogunsalu v. Superior Court (California Commission On Teacher Credentialing)

    Publication Date: 2017-05-31
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Litigation | Civil Appeals
    Industry: Education
    Date Filed: 2017-05-31
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cornelius Oluseyi Ogunsalu, in pro. per., for Petitioner.
    for defendant: No appearance for Respondent. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, and Chara L. Crane, Deputy Attorney General, for Real Party in Interest.

    Case Number: No. D071323

    Filing of judicial challenge to administrative ruling constitutes "filing of new litigation" for purposes of vexatious litigant statutes (Nares, J.)

  • People ex rel. Harris v. Aguayo

    Publication Date: 2017-05-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Business Torts | Real Estate
    Industry: State and Local Government | Real Estate
    Date Filed: 2017-04-26
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Nicklas A. Akers, Assistant Attorney General, Michele Van Gelderen, Steven De Salvo, and William R. Pletcher, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Ronald E. Wiksell; Law Offices of James T. Duff and James T. Duff for Defendants and Appellants.

    Case Number: No. B262557

    Noerr-Pennington doctrine did not immunize sham lawsuits and unlawful conduct (Chavez, Acting P.J.)

  • Ho v. ReconTrust Company, NA

    Publication Date: 2017-05-22
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Date Filed: 2016-10-19
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: George H. Wu, District Judge, Presiding Before: Alex Kozinski and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges, and Edward R. Korman,* Senior District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicolette Glazer, Esq. (argued), Law Offices of Larry R. Glazer, Century City, California, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Margaret M. Grignon (argued) and Kasey J. Curtis, Reed Smith LLP, Los Angeles, California; Carolee A. Hoover and David C. Powell, McGuire Woods LLP, San Francisco, California; for Defendants-Appellees.

    Case Number: No. 10-56884

    Trustee pursuing nonjudicial foreclosure not "debt collector" for purposes of Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (Kozinski, J.)

  • People v. Slough

    Publication Date: 2017-05-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-05-02
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Xavier Becerra, Kamala D. Harris, Attorneys General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Victoria B. Wilson, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Viet H. Nguyen, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Christina Alvarez Barnes, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: 2d Crim. No. B262102

    Drug dealer did not personally inflict great bodily injury by selling victim heroin that caused fatal overdose (Perren, J.)

  • April 28, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Okeke-Henry v. Southwest Airlines, Co., PICS Case No. 17-0583 (Pa. Super. April 13, 2017) Stabile, J. (10 pages).

    Trial court erred in granting judgment on the pleadings and in finding that appellant's suit for head injuries she received when struck by another passenger's suitcase while boarding an airplane was

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  • April 25, 2017 | Daily Report Online

    Guns Part of Tex McIver's Ethos—Just Not the One In His Sock Drawer

    Atlanta lawyer Claud "Tex" McIver had a lot of guns. No one disputes

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  • Kwan v. SanMedica International

    Publication Date: 2017-04-24
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Date Filed: 2017-04-21
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Maria-Elena James, Magistrate Judge, Presiding Before: J. Clifford Wallace and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges, and Ralph R. Erickson,* District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stewart M. Weltman (argued) and Max A. Stein, Boodell & Domanskis LLC, Chicago, Illinois; Elaine Ryan and Patricia N. Syverson, Bonnett Fairbourn Friedman & Balint P.C., Phoenix, Arizona; Manfred Muecke, Bonnett Fairbourn Friedman & Balint P.C., San Diego, California; for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Jason Kerr (argued), Christopher B. Sullivan, Mark J. Williams, and Steven William Garff, Price Parkinson & Kerr PLLC, Salt Lake City, Utah, for Defendant-Appellee.

    Case Number: No. 15-15496

    Allegations of unsubstantiated advertising claims insufficient to state causes of action under California's unfair competition and consumer protection laws (Erickson, J.)