California Court of Appeal - Opinion Summaries

People v. Hernandez

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Convictions for resisting arrest, being under the influence of methamphetamine, and driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, is reversed where...

Ramos v. Superior Ct. (People)

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Trial court erred in failing to grant petitioner's writ petition to dismiss amended felony complaint against her when her preliminary hearing was...

Knapp v. Palisades Charter High Sch.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Law
In sexual harassment action in which plaintiff student while visiting an incorporated charter high school was subjected to sexual banter and comments...

Connerly v. Schwarzenegger

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
In case involving proposition outlawing state discrimination or preferences based on race, gender or national origin, judgment on the pleadings, and...

Glatman v. Valverde

Administrative Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Issuance of writ commanding defendant DMV to set aside its suspension of plaintiff's driver's license is affirmed over claim that the court erred by...

D.H. Williams Constr., Inc. v. Clovis Unified Sch. Dist.

Administrative Law, Construction, Education Law, Government Contracts
Judgment directing the awarding of a public agency contract to a bidder is reversed as, although the bid cannot be declared nonresponsive where the...

Neilson v. City of Cal. City

Administrative Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Judgments finding amendments to defendants' redevelopment plan, resulting in the building of an automobile test track facility on desert land, to be...

Schatz v. Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory LLP

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
Denial of defendant's motion to compel binding arbitration following nonbinding arbitration under the mandatory fee arbitration act, and denial of...

London Mkt. Insurers v. Superior Ct. (Truck Ins. Exch.)

Contracts, Insurance Law, Product Liability
As used in the policies at issue, the term "occurrence" in a commercial general liability policy as applied to bodily injuries caused by exposure to...

People v. Eastman

Criminal Law & Procedure
10-year stipulated sentence based on negotiated plea no contest to two counts of committing a lewd or lascivious act upon a child under the age of 14,...