California Court of Appeal - Opinion Summaries

Ashford v. Culver City Unified Sch. Dist.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment termination dispute, an order allowing defendant-school district to hold a new administrative hearing to present additional evidence...

People v. Baylor

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Defendant's conviction for first degree murder is affirmed over his claim that identification testimony violated his federal constitutional right to...

Mejia v. City of Los Angeles

Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Defendant-City's adoption of a mitigated negative declaration under the California Environmental Quality Act was improper where the project may have...

Roden v. Amerisourcebergen

Civil Procedure, Evidence
An order permitting postjudgment discovery is not appealable under Code of Civil Procedure section 904.1(a)(2).

Berg v. Davi

Property Law & Real Estate
The Department of Real Estate properly rejected plaintiff's application for a real estate salesperson's license where the rejection met the...

McClellan v. County of San Diego

Civil Procedure, Family Law
The superior court properly denied plaintiff's application for an order to omit certain accrued interest from the calculation of his unpaid child...

Chapman v. Superior Court

Contracts, Government Law, Professional Malpractice
An individual who violates Government Code section 1090, which prohibits an officerholder from having a financial interest in any contract made by the...

People v. Houston

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Defendant's conviction for second degree murder is affirmed over his claim that the trial court violated his constitutional rights by admitting into...

People v. Vega

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's sentence for conspiracy to possess cocaine is reversed where the only punishable conspiracy was the conspiracy to transport cocaine.

L.B. Research v. UCLA found.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Education Law
A $1 million contribution to the UCLA School of Medicine, which was accepted along with the conditions imposed, is a contract subject to a condition...