California Court of Appeal - May 2012 Opinion Summaries

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. City and County of San Francisco

Contracts, Public Utilities
In a utility's action seeking declaratory relief and breach of contract damages concerning its right to bill for electricity supplied to a renovated...

Sefton v. Sefton

Civil Procedure, Probate, Trusts & Estates
In a case in which a grandson filed a petition with the superior court alleging that his father's attempted exercise of a power of appointment under...

Juror Number One v. Superior Court (Royster)

Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Cyberspace Law
In a criminal proceeding in which the court entered an order requiring a juror to execute a consent form pursuant to the Stored Communications Act...

Cal Sierra Construction, Inc. v. Comerica Bank

Banking Law, Construction
In a suit to enforce a mechanics lien and stop notice in connection with a construction project financed by the defendant banks, the trial court's...

Burgos v. Superior Court (People)

Criminal Law & Procedure
In a murder prosecution in which the trial court granted four continuances of 10 court days each to the People because the prosecutor was occupied in...

Khazan v. Braynin

Attorney's Fees, Remedies
In a case in which the trial court on remand ordered payment of attorney's fees with interest to the plaintiffs, its ruling on when interest on the...

Mendoza v. City of West Covina

Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
In a wrongful death suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 alleging that a police officer used unconstitutionally excessive force while the decedent was in...

City of Colton v. Singletary

Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure
In litigation over a developer's agreement to construct infrastructure in a city as part of a subdivision plan, in which the trial court granted the...

Barriga v. Superior Court (People)

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Juvenile Law
In a carjacking case in which a juvenile had been charged in a juvenile proceeding for resisting arrest and then was charged in criminal court for the...

Bowers v. Raymond J. Lucia Companies, Inc.

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In a case in which a settlement agreement resulted in a binding mediation award in favor of the plaintiffs, the judgment is affirmed, where: 1) there...