California Court of Appeal - Opinion Summaries

Litt v. Eisenhower Medical Center

Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
In an action for litigaion costs and expert witness fees in an underlying personal injury suit, the trial court’s judgment is: 1) affirmed where the...

People v. Saez

Criminal Law & Procedure
Conviction of attempted murder, with true allegations that the crime was willful, deliberate, and premeditated, that defendant personally inflicted...

Lee v. Cal. Capital Insurance Co.

Insurance Law
In an appeal from a judgment confirming an insurance appraisal award, the trial court's judgment is reversed where: 1) the award issued in this case...

Sherman v. Hennessy Industries

Injury & Tort Law
In a suit asserting claims for negligence, strict liability, and loss of consortium against a machine manufacturer, alleging that a brake lining...

People v. DeJongh

Criminal Law & Procedure, Family Law
Husband and wife's conviction of three counts of child custody deprivation, Pen. Code section 278.5(a), is affirmed over defendants' claim that their...

People v. White

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Sentence and conviction of rape of an intoxicated person, Pen. Code section 261(a)(3), and rape of an unconscious person, section 261(a)(4)(A), is: 1)...

People v. Forrest

Criminal Law & Procedure
Sentence for conviction of dissuading a witness from testifying, Pen. Code seciton 136(a)(1), and making a criminal threat, section 422, is: 1)...

West v. Arent Fox LLP

Civil Procedure
In a case arising out of treatment of plaintiff's mother while she resided at a facility providing residential care to the elderly, appealing the...

Roman v. BRE Properties

Civil Rights, Property Law & Real Estate
In a lawsuit alleging defendant had engaged in disability discrimination when plaintiffs attempted to view available units at an apartment complex,...

Paulek v. Western Riverside Co. Regional Conservation Auth.

Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a petition for writ of mandate concerning a plan to maintain open spaces in the western portion of Riverside County, alleging defendant erred by...