California Court of Appeal - Opinion Summaries

PEOPLE v. WALLACE

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
The trial court abused its discretion in striking, in the interests of justice, a prior conviction which constituted defendant's second strike, where...

WEINER v. WEINER

Education Law, Family Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Family Code section 2641, dictating conditions under which a spouse must reimburse the marital community for educational loan payments made from...

ROTOLO CHEVROLET v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO (STAUDT)

Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Product Liability
The trial court erred in finding that disability retirement benefits at issue constituted a collateral source, and that evidence of the payments would...

STERN v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY (GETZ, KRYCLER & JAKUBOVITS )

Civil Procedure, Class Actions
A trial court should order jurisdictional reclassification based on amount in controversy only after parties have received proper notice and an...

MARRIAGE OF SPRAGUE

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Family Law
A creditor must obtain relief from an automatic bankruptcy stay to pursue a family law matter in state court, when the family law matter is a core...

RAMIREZ v. LONG BEACH UNIFIED SCH. DIST.

Education Law, Injury & Tort Law
A school district was immune pursuant to Education Code section 44808, in a suit for the death of plaintiff's son during a camp program, as the...

NUTRITION NOW, INC. v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY (CAPPSEALS, INC.)

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law
A California court could determine whether a Connecticut settlement was made in good faith, because nothing in the statutory scheme limits Code of...

PEOPLE v. ACEVEDO

Criminal Law & Procedure
A conviction for the felony of evading a pursuing police officer, Vehicle Code section 2800.2(a), is reversed where evidence did not show that a...

PEOPLE v. HILGER

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Where the trial court did not tell appellant either that he might serve more than the upper term, or that his waiver applied to prison time, he was...

COLLINS v. OVERNITE TRANSP. CO.

Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
Dismissal of truck drivers' complaint for unpaid overtime compensation and other relief against a motor carrier is affirmed, as plaintiffs come within...