California Court of Appeal - Opinion Summaries

People v. Cordova

Sentencing, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a petition seeking resentencing under the Three Strikes Reform Act (Proposition 36) for defendant's life sentence, the trial court's denial of the...

City of Santa Maria v. Adam

Water Law, Agriculture, Property Law & Real Estate, Public Utilities
In a water law action, arising from a dispute between landowners and public water producers over rights to groundwater contained in the Santa Maria...

Harris v. Stampolis

Education Law
In a civil harassment restraining order case, arising from a dispute between a school principal and a board member whose son attends the school, the...

Stewart Enterprises, Inc. v. City of Oakland

Construction, Government Law
In an action brought by a company that obtained a building permit to construct a crematorium, challenging a City Council's subsequent emergency...

People v. Johnson

Criminal Law & Procedure
Denial of Proposition 47 petition to recall sentence is affirmed where there was no error in the trial court's ruling that petitioner, not the People,...

Gopal v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a wrongful death and negligence action in which decedent was admitted to the emergency room at Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and died after she was...

Conservatorship of Jesse G.

Juvenile Law
In a minor's appeal from the trial court's orders appointing the Mendocino County Public Guardian conservator of his person and estate pursuant to...

People v. Super. Ct

Sentencing, Criminal Law & Procedure
In the Government's petition in a proceeding pursuant to the Sexually Violent Predator Act (SVP Act), Welf. & Inst. Code section 6600 et seq., the...

Scott v. Yoho

Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Health Law
In an arbitration action, arising after plaintiffs' relative died following lipoplasty and suction lipectomy performed by defendant surgeons, the...

Harris v. TAP Worldwide

Labor & Employment Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In an employment suit alleging wrongful termination and violations of the Fair Employment and Housing Act and the Labor Code, the trial court's denial...