California Court of Appeal - Opinion Summaries

Fiorini v. City Brewing Company

Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In this product liability case brought against defendant City Brewing Company for the police shooting death of plaintiff's son after his son had...

Nasrawi v. Buck Consultants

Injury & Tort Law, Legal Malpractice, Probate, Trusts & Estates
In this case, plaintiffs allege that the actuarial negligence of defendants Buck Consultants and Loeb caused their pension trust to be dramatically...

Union Pacific Railroad v. Santa Fe Pacific Pipelines

Civil Procedure, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Transportation
In this case, plaintiff-railroad (Railroad) and defendant-pipeline (Pipeline) clashed over rent due from the Pipeline for the continued use of the...

Maxwell v. Dolezal

Contracts
In this breach of contract case, dismissal is reversed and the case remanded for further proceedings, where plaintiff pleaded all the elements of a...

Thompson v. Petaluma Police Dept.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
In this case, plaintiff challenges the constitutionality of Vehicle Code section 14602.6, which allows police to impound a vehicle operate by an...

Kight v. CashCall

Class Actions, Criminal Law & Procedure
Order decertifying a class alleging violations of Penal Code section 632, which prohibits the undisclosed monitoring or recording of confidential...

People v. Palafox

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Imposition of consecutive terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole (LWOP) on defendant for two special circumstance murders he...

Aspen Grove Condo. Assn. v. CNL Income Northstar

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
In this case, defendant CNL's water retention basin began to overflow and seep onto plaintiff Aspen Grove's property despite remediation efforts. ...

Paulek v. CA Department of Water Resources

Environmental Law
Denial of plaintiff's petition for a writ of mandate under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) directing defendant to vacate its approval...

People v. Aparicio

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Denial of defendant's petition for resentencing is affirmed, where: 1) the abuse of discretion standard applies when reviewing an appeal from a trial...