California Court of Appeal - Opinion Summaries

Burns v. California Fair Plan

Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In case where home was destroyed by fire and insurer paid insured on a pro rata basis according the value of their interests in the property, summary...

County of L.A. v. American Contractors Indem. Co.

Criminal Law & Procedure
The bail of a fleeing defendant is exonerated if the bail bond agency locates the defendant in another jurisdiction and brings him before a local law...

Gallanis-Politis v. Medina

Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In suit by plaintiff county employee alleging discrimination and retaliation, denial of defendants' special motion to strike the complaint under the...

Delgado v. Interinsurance Exchange of the Auto Club of S. Cal.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In bad faith refusal to defend action arising from underlying personal injury action where settling defendant assigned his rights against his insurer,...

People v. Cabrera

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
Conviction and sentence for several crimes including forcible rape, kidnapping, carjacking and infliction of corporal punishment are affirmed over...

VL Sys., Inc. v. Unisen, Inc.

Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
In case involving short-term computer consulting contract that provided that defendant would not hire any of plaintiff's employees for 12 months after...

Gatton v. T-Mobile USA, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Communications Law, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In actions challenging the early termination fee charged to cellular telephone service subscribers and challenging the practice of selling locked...

Cal. Veterinary Med. Ass'n v. City of W. Hollywood

Agriculture, Commercial Law, Government Law, Health Law
In a case involving a veterinary association's challenge to the City of West Hollywood's ban, as cruel and inhumane, on the practice of animal...

Berkley v. Dowds

Civil Procedure, Elder Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a wife's cross-action against respondent-physician who attended wife's deceased husband before the latter died after suffering brain damage in an...

Hyon v. Selten

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
In an appeal concerning a fee dispute arising out of litigation commenced in 1993, summary judgment entered against defendant on his cross-complaint...