California Court of Appeal - Opinion Summaries

Gonzalez v. Autoliv ASP, Inc.

Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In case involving claim for strict products liability arising out of injury to plaintiff's eye from allegedly defective airbag, summary judgment for...

Essex Ins. Co. v. City of Bakersfield

Contracts, Insurance Law
In coverage dispute arising from underlying lawsuit involving a car accident, judgment for plaintiff-insurer that it did not owe defendant city a duty...

People v. Edward D. Jones & Co.

Civil Procedure, Securities Law
In suit against brokerage firm for failing to adequately disclose to investors and potential investors certain "shelf-space" agreements under which...

Cadle Co. II v. Sundance Fin. Inc.

Civil Procedure
The ten-year statute of limitations on an action to renew a stipulated judgment begins to run when the trial court enters the stipulated judgment,...

Alvarez v. Superior Ct. (San Jose Mercury News, Inc.)

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Media Law
The First Amendment right of access to certain judicial proceedings does not extend to post-indictment grand jury transcripts at a Penal Code section...

In re Groundwater Cases

Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability, Public Utilities, Water Law
On remand from the California Supreme Court, dismissal of plaintiffs' damages claims against two groups of water purveyor defendants -- one group...

Goldstein v. Superior Ct. (Grand Jury of the County of L.A.)

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In connection with federal civil rights action alleging wrongful murder conviction, petition for writ of mandate challenging order of trial court...

Peterson v. John Crane, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In suit alleging deceased husband's asbestosis and lung cancer were asbestos-related, judgment for defendant is affirmed over claims of plaintiff-wife...

Central Coast Baptist Ass'n v. First Baptist Church of L.A.

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
In case involving an action by plaintiff church association against a member church and another church over an alleged takeover, judgment for...

WRI Opportunity Loans II LLC v. Cooper

Banking Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In action for payment of a loan guaranteed by defendants, summary judgment for plaintiff is reversed where plaintiff's challenges to defendants' usury...