Supreme Court of California - March 2002 Opinion Summaries

COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE v. SUPERIOR COURT OF RIVERSIDE COUNTY (MADRIGAL)

Labor & Employment Law
Probationary employee peace officer had the right to view confidential documents obtained or prepared in the course of routine background...

PEOPLE v. VALDEZ

Criminal Law & Procedure
Purposeful placement of child in a hazardous situation while possessing a subjective awareness of risk is not the mens rea required for the offense of...

FLANAGAN v. FLANAGAN

Criminal Law & Procedure
For purposes of Penal Code section 632(a), which prohibits the recording of a telephone call without consent from all parties if the call includes a...

PEOPLE v. MANCEBO

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
When gun use has already been properly pled and proved as a basis for invoking One Strike sentencing, the circumstance of gun use is not available to...

HAMILTON v. MARYLAND CAS. CO.

Civil Procedure, Insurance Law
A defending insurer cannot be bound to a settlement to which it has not agreed and in which it has not participated, even where the settlement has...

SUMMIT FIN. HOLDINGS, LTD. v. CONTINENTAL LAWYERS TITLE CO.

Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
An escrow holder does not owe a duty of care to a nonparty to the escrow based on an assignment to that nonparty by another nonparty to the escrow.

SAN REMO HOTEL L.P. v. CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO

Property Law & Real Estate
Where plaintiffs' proposal to convert a hotel from residential to full-time tourist use constituted an expansion of the hotel's historical use, a...

PEOPLE v. MCKAY

Criminal Law & Procedure
Custodial arrests for fine-only offenses do not violate the Fourth Amendment, and compliance with state arrest procedures is not a component of the...