California Court of Appeal - Opinion Summaries

In re Miguel S.

Family Law, Juvenile Law, Indian Law
In an appeal by the presumed father and the biological father, each appealing from the juvenile court's order terminating their parental rights, the...

Vasilenko v. Grace Family Church

Injury & Tort Law
In an action brought by a plaintiff who was hit by a car and injured while crossing a busy five-lane road on his way from an overflow parking lot...

569 East County LLC v. Backcountry Against the Dump, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Attorney's Fees
In an anti-SLAPP motion in an underlying suit alleging unlawful interference with prospective economic advantage, the court's order awarding defendant...

Innes v. Diablo Controls, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Corporation & Enterprise Law
In a petition to compel inspection of certain records of defendant pursuant to Corporations Code section 1601, the trial court's denial of plaintiff's...

People v. Endsley

Sentencing, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a petition for conditional release to an outpatient program pursuant to Penal Code section 1026.2, the trial court's denial without stating the...

People v. Maynarich

Sentencing, Criminal Law & Procedure
Denial of Proposition 47 petition to recall sentence for felony conviction for forgery, in violation of Penal Code section 475, is reversed where it...

People v. Garrett

Sentencing, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a petition for resentencing under Proposition 47 for conviction by no contest plea to commercial burglary under Penal Code section 459, where...

In re Z.F.

Family Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates
In an appeal by a minor's maternal grandmother and former legal guardian by appointment of the probate court, the probate court's termination of the...

Spring Valley Lake Assn. v. City of Victorville

Property Law & Real Estate, Environmental Law
In an action alleging a City failed to comply with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), Pub. Resources Code section 21000 et seq., and the...

People v. Ochoa

Criminal Law & Procedure
In a case in which defendant was first sentenced and convicted of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, and in a second subsequent case indicted...