Supreme Court of California - June 2018 Opinion Summaries
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People v. AndersonSupreme Court of California
Sentencing, Criminal Law & Procedure
Affirmed as modified, affirmed the death penalty of an automatic death penalty case. Defendant's appeal argued procedural and instructional errors as...
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06/28/2018 | S138474 |
People v. LopezSupreme Court of California
Sentencing, Criminal Law & Procedure
Affirmed the judgment of an automatic death penalty case. The defendant argued cumulative errors during the trial and coercion in reaching the...
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06/28/2018 | S099549 |
Nat. Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc. v. State of CaliforniaSupreme Court of California
Judgement Enforcement, Civil Procedure
Reversed and remanded the judgment of the Court of Appeal which had found that a court could declare a statute unenforceable when complying with the...
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06/28/2018 | S239397 |
County of Los Angeles v. Financial Casualty & Surety, IncSupreme Court of California
Asset Forfeiture, Criminal Law & Procedure
Reversed. The California Supreme Court held that the jailer’s authority to set a time and place for the appearance of the arrested person makes that...
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06/25/2018 | S230213 |
Samara v. MatarSupreme Court of California
Civil Procedure, Professional Malpractice
Affirmed. In this suit involving claim preclusion, plaintiff sued two dentists for professional negligence. The first dentist was granted a summary...
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06/25/2018 | S240918 |
People v. GhobrialSupreme Court of California
Sentencing, Criminal Law & Procedure
Criminal death penalty case. Affirmed. Defendant was found guilty of first degree murder of a 12 year-old boy, special circumstances applied because...
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06/21/2018 | S105908 |
People v. FarwellSupreme Court of California
Sentencing, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Reversed. Defendant entered into a stipulation that admitted all of the elements of the charged crime, but was neither advised of, nor expressly...
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06/21/2018 | S231009 |
In re CowanSupreme Court of California
Judges & Judiciary, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In this jury misconduct claim, the court found that the juror in question did not intentionally fail to disclose a previous misdemeanor conviction and...
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06/18/2018 | S158073 |
P. v. GonzalezSupreme Court of California
Sentencing, Criminal Law & Procedure
Holding that the special circumstance finding that a murder was committed during a robbery rendered the trial court's error in failing to instruct the...
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06/04/2018 | S234377 |
Liberty Surplus Insurance Corporation v. Ledesma & Meyer Construction Company, Inc.Supreme Court of California
Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
Affirming that when a third party sues an employer for the negligent hiring, retention, and supervision of an employee who intentionally injured a...
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06/04/2018 | S236765 |