California Court of Appeal - Opinion Summaries

County of L.A. Child Supp. Serv. Dept. v. Super. Ct. (Youngblood)

Family Law, International Law
When a foreign (Swiss) judgment establishing paternity and child support is registered in California for enforcement purposes under the Uniform...

United Riggers & Erectors v. Coast Iron & Steel

Construction, Contracts
In an action out of a payment dispute between a contractor and subcontractor, the trial court's judgment in favor of contractor is reversed with...

Harrison v. City of Rancho Mirage

Civil Rights, Government Law
In a challenge to a municipal ordinance that provided rules and regulations for renting private homes as short-term vacation rentals, the trial court...

Roe v. Super. Ct. (Holister Sch. Dist.)

Civil Procedure
In an writ petition challenging the superior court's orders authorizing interviews of petitioner's parents collateral to the mental examination of...

People v. Burton

Criminal Law & Procedure
Conviction of first degree murder is affirmed where: 1) intimate partner battery, in violation of Penal Code section 273.5, is a crime of moral...

People v. Santori

Criminal Law & Procedure
Trial court's restitution order requiring defendant to pay the City of Palmdale $18,878 in restitution for 32 incidents of graffiti is affirmed where,...

In re Chase C.

Juvenile Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a minor's appeal of the juvenile court's true finding that he resisted, delayed, or obstructed a peace officer in violation of Penal Code section...

Kerkeles v. City of San Jose

Civil Rights, Attorney's Fees
In an appeals of an order awarding plaintiff a small fraction of the attorney fees he requested after settling his civil rights lawsuit against a city...

Flowers v. LA County Metro. Transp. Auth.

Transportation, Labor & Employment Law, Class Actions
In an appeal concerning overlapping provisions of the Labor Code, the Public Utilities Code (PUC), and an Industrial Welfare Commission (IWC) wage...

In re D.C.

Juvenile Law, Family Law
In parent's appeal of the orders entered following the jurisdiction and disposition hearing in the juvenile dependency case of their minor children,...