California Court of Appeal - Opinion Summaries

Communications Relay Corp v. County of L.A.

Construction, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
Water Code section 13750.5 mandates that a person responsible for constructing a water well hold a C-57 Water Well Contractor's License.

Horning v. Shilberg

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
In a breach of a contract claim, the trial court's award of attorney fees and costs, under Civil Code section 1717, to defendant as the prevailing...

Maffei v. Woodland Mem'l Park

Government Law
Health and Safety Code section 7526 grants the trial court broad discretion to consider the particular facts of each case in deciding whether to grant...

People v. Anzalone

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Defendant's convictions for attempted murder are reversed where defense counsel's failure to object to the prosecutor's misstatements of the law was...

Jimenez v. County of L.A.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a civil rights action alleging an unreasonably extended detention, summary judgment in favor of defendants-police officers is affirmed where they...

Travelers Cas. v. Employers Ins.

Contracts, Insurance Law
In an insurance coverage dispute arising from a products liability lawsuit, the trial court erred in finding that policy exclusions precluded coverage...

Sunderland v. Lockheed Martin

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
The commercial traveler rule of workers' compensation law may not be incorporated into the respondeat superior doctrine.

Forensis Group, Inc. v. Frantz, Townsend & Foldenauer

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
When a client sues an expert witness, instead of the attorneys who retained him in an underlying case, the expert may seek equitable indemnification...

Cramer v. L.A. Super. Ct.

Labor & Employment Law
The sums that Los Angeles County court reporters earn for preparation of transcripts in felony cases may not be considered for purposes of calculating...

Ruiz v. Weissker, Inc.

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Hooker v. Dep't of Transp. (2002) 27 Cal. 4th 198, which holds that a hirer of a subcontractor whose employee is injured on the job as a result of the...