California Court of Appeal - Opinion Summaries

People v. Little

Criminal Law & Procedure
Conviction and sentence for first degree residential burglary, Pen. Code sections 459, 460(a), second degree commercial burglary, Pen. Code sections...

Oliveira v. Kiesler

Civil Procedure, Probate, Trusts & Estates, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
In a suit brought by a widow against her stepsons, a law firm, a lawyer, and a paralegal, over an estate plan that purportedly divested her of the 50...

People v. Rangel

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Plea of no contest to aggravated assault and active participation in a criminal street gang, and admission of a great bodily injury allegation in...

Paratransit, Inc. v. Unemployment Ins. Appeals Bd.

Labor & Employment Law
In an unemployment insurance benefits case, appeal of a trial court granting a writ of administrative mandamus to claimant's former employer, is...

Oak Springs Villas v. Advanced Truss Systems, Inc.

Construction, Insurance Law, Civil Procedure
In an action by a nonsettling defendant, alleging the trial court's determination that a settlement between the plaintiff and other defendants in the...

Daniell v. Riverside Partners I, L.P.

Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action for malicious prosecution based on an unlawful detainer allegedly filed against plaintiff by the previous owner of his apartment complex...

People v. Aldana

Criminal Law & Procedure
Convictions for violating Penal Code section 424(a)(3), which prohibits those charged with control over the expenditure of public moneys from keeping...

People v. Solis

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Convictions for forcible rape, Pen. Code section 261(a)(2), and receiving stolen property, Pen. Code section 496(a), are: 1) affirmed over multiple...

In re D.L.

Criminal Law & Procedure, Juvenile Law
In an action by a minor appealing the juvenile adjudications finding he committed two burglaries in May 2010, judgment is reversed where the juvenile...

Casey v. Perini Corp.

Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In an asbestos action filed against it by plaintiff and her late husband, summary judgment to defendant is affirmed where the trial court: 1) did not...