California Court of Appeal - Opinion Summaries

Tucker v. Pac. Bell Mobile Serv.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Communications Law, Consumer Protection Law, False Advertising
In a class action suit against wireless telephone companies alleging material misrepresentations to the consuming public as to the actual number of...

People v. Martinez

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's convictions and sentences for assault with a firearm is reversed and remanded, as defendant cannot be convicted of both semiautomatic...

Axis Surplus Ins. Co. v. Reinoso

Insurance Law, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an insurance dispute, brought by the insurer, to recover its defense costs and settlement contribution in an underlying suit brought against its...

Czajkowski v. Haskell & White, LLP.

Civil Procedure, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Professional Malpractice
In a plaintiff's suit for damages against an accounting firm, alleging professional negligence and related causes of action arising out of their...

In re Montgomery

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
The trial court's grant of defendant's petition for habeas relief in concluding that the decision by the Board of Parole Hearings issuing a three-year...

L.M. v. M.G.

Family Law
In a child custody dispute, the trial court's judgment under the Uniform Parentage Act that plaintiff's former same-sex partner is a second parent to...

Mongols Nation Motorcycle Club, Inc. v. City of Lancaster

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a motorcycle club's suit against a city and its officials, alleging, inter alia, interference with exercise of civil rights, the defendants' appeal...

People v. Fernandez

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a conviction of defendant for second degree robbery and willful infliction of corporal injury on a spouse, cohabitant, or child's parent, trial...

Weinstein v. Rocha

Contracts, Debt Collection, Property Law & Real Estate
In a suit seeking a deficiency judgment against property owners for defaulting on a promissory note, trial court's judgment in favor of the plaintiff...

People v. Bradley

Criminal Law & Procedure
On remand from the California Supreme Court, in light of Stark v. Superior Court, which held that Penal Code section 424 requires "that the defendant...