California Court of Appeal - Opinion Summaries

CALBEACH ADVOCATES v. CITY OF SOLANA BEACH

Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Beach erosion causing the failure of a bluff qualified as an emergency under the California Environmental Quality Act, and such an emergency need not...

CHEEK v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SANTA CRUZ (PEOPLE)

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure
Because each of three counties in which defendant committed offenses qualified as "the county in which the person was convicted of the offense for...

MORRISON v. RUDOLPH

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Property Law & Real Estate, Sanctions
A malicious prosecution claim was not actionable where an underlying suit by a home buyer, for damages allegedly stemming from undisclosed...

PEOPLE v. CLAVEL

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Where the record on appeal contains neither a motion to amend the abstract of judgment to correct the alleged miscalculation of presentence custody...

PEOPLE v. BRAXTON

Criminal Law & Procedure
Defendant presented a timely, specifically-grounded, oral motion for new trial based on juror misconduct, thus failure to hear the motion was error,...

DIBBLE v. GOURLEY

Administrative Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Transportation
Appellant waived his objection to an arresting officer's unsworn reports by failing to appear at an administrative hearing, and in any event the...

MARTINO v. WORKERS' COMP. APPEALS BD.

Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
An employee's petition for reinstatement of vocational rehabilitation services was not barred by the statute of limitations under Labor Code section...

PEOPLE v. CHAGHOURI

Remedies, Tax Law
The California Board of Equalization is not entitled to recover, as restitution, sums it expended in an investigation into defendant-s wrong doing...

IN RE S.O.

Family Law, Juvenile Law
Juvenile court's dispositional order, declaring minor a dependent and allowing mother to retain custody, affirmed where there is substantial evidence...

BUXBAUM v. AETNA LIFE AND CAS. CO.

Insurance Law
Where a law firm made a claim under its business interruption insurance policy and did not -suspend operations- within the meaning of the policy, but...