California Court of Appeal - Opinion Summaries

Mission Bay Alliance v. Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure

Sports Law, Environmental Law, Government Law
In an appeal from the trial court's denial of two consolidated petitions to set aside the certification of the environmental impact report and related...

Dept. of Health Care Servs. v. Office of Admin. Hearings

Education Law, Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees
In the Department of Health Care Services petition for writs of administrative and traditional mandamus, and declaratory relief, seeking an order...

In re Charlotte V.

Family Law
In a Mother's appeal from the termination of her parental rights over her daughter, on the ground the juvenile court failed to comply with the strict...

Sutter Health v. Eden Township Healthcare Dist.

Health Law, Judgement Enforcement
In a motion under Government Code section 970.6, which permits a local public entity to pay a judgment in up to 10 annual installments upon a showing...

People v. Moore

Evidence, Criminal Law & Procedure
Conviction of first degree murder, based exclusively on circumstantial evidence that defendant built and planted a victim-activated bomb in an...

People v. Shiga

Criminal Law & Procedure
Convictions of aggravated arson, Pen. Code section 451.5(a), arson of a structure, section 451(c), possession of flammable material, section 453(a),...

Tidwell Enterprises v. Financial Pacific Ins. Co.

Insurance Law, Construction, Injury & Tort Law
In an insurance coverage action, arising out of a suit brought by a homeowner's insurer against a contractor who installed a fireplace that caused a...

People v. Houser

Criminal Law & Procedure
In a case in which defendant's was found by the trial court to be mentally competent to stand trial, his convictions of lewd acts with a child under...

People v. Allen

Criminal Law & Procedure
Defendant's conviction of escape for leaving his mother's house, which was his assigned place of confinement under an alternative custody agreement,...

City of Palo Alto v. Public Employement Relations Bd.

Labor & Employment Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a government action, arising over a dispute from a voter-approved initiative that repealed a binding interest arbitration provision from defendant...