California Court of Appeal - June 2007 Opinion Summaries

Dep't Pers. Admin. v. Cal. Correctional Peace Officers Ass'n

Civil Procedure, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Vacatur of arbitrator's award is affirmed as the arbitrator exceeded her powers when she determined that a written collective bargaining memorandum of...

People v. Nguyen

Criminal Law & Procedure, Juvenile Law, Sentencing
The role of the jury is diminished and eroded in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by the use of juvenile adjudications to increase the...

Katiuzhinsky v. Perry

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
Order forbidding plaintiffs from recovering or introducing evidence of medical expenses beyond discounted rate paid by financial services company to...

People v. Smith

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Denial of request to allow defendant, a registered sex offender, to leave the county when required by his employer is reversed where the trial court's...

Benson v. Kwikset Corp.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Consumer Protection Law, False Advertising
In suit for restitution and injunctive relief under the unfair competition law and the false advertising law, judgment for plaintiff enjoining...

Christoff v. Nestle USA, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
In case involving use of plaintiff's image on Taster's Choice instant coffee label without plaintiff's consent, multi-million-dollar jury award of...

J.C. Gury Co. v. Nippon Carbide Indus. Inc.

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
Arbitrator's award concluding that a clause disclaiming warranties and excluding consequential damages was unconscionable and unenforceable, and...

Cal-Western Reconveyance Corp. v. Reed

Property Law & Real Estate
Order to distribute surplus proceeds from a trustee's sale of residential property to satisfy the debtor's obligations for child and spousal support...

Poseidon Dev., Inc. v. Woodland Lane Estates, LLC

Attorney's Fees, Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
In suit alleging breach of a promissory note following defendant's late tender of a final, balloon payment on the note, orders sustaining of demurrers...

Davis v. L.A. Unified Sch. Dist Pers. Comm'n

Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a case where plaintiff was demoted, but then took disability leave unrelated to his employment, defendant's order that plaintiff be reinstated, but...