Supreme Court of California - December 2007 Opinion Summaries

Hebrew Academy of San Francisco v. Goldman

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Media Law
In the context of the statute of limitations on a cause of action for defamation, the single-publication rule applies not only to books and newspapers...

Fashion Valley Mall, LLC v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd.

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
The right to free speech granted the California Constitution includes the right to urge customers in a shopping mall to boycott one of the stores in...

People v. Watson

Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law
A prisoner transferred from a state prison to a state hospital pursuant to Penal Code section 2684 is a person "confined in a state prison," because...

Rico v. Mitsubishi Motors Corp.

Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In circumstances in which an attorney receives privileged documents through inadvertence, that attorney may not read a document any more closely than...

People v. Kelly

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
In a first degree murder, death penalty case, the conviction and sentence are affirmed on automatic appeal over claims of error regarding: 1) jury...

City of Stockton v. Superior Court of Sacramento County (Civic Partners Stockton, LLC)

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Construction, Contracts, Government Contracts, Government Law
Government Code section 905's requirements, that "all claims for money or damages against local public entities" be presented to the responsible...

People v. Alford

Criminal Law & Procedure
The $20 court security fee required by Penal Code section 1465.8(a)(1) "on every conviction for a criminal offense" is not subject to section 3's...