California Court of Appeal - Opinion Summaries

JSJ Limited Partnership v. Mehrban

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Sanctions
In a suit by a restaurant for abuse of process and malicious prosecution against a patron who had sued it for ADA violations, the trial court's denial...

Hererra v. Federal National Mortgage Ass'n

Banking Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a suit by defaulting homeowners to set aside a nonjudicial foreclosure sale on the grounds of an invalid assignment of the deed of trust, the trial...

People ex rel. Harris v. Sunset Car Wash, LLC

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a state action against a car wash, seeking to recover unpaid wages and penalties owed by a company that had operated a car wash at the same...

Fitzsimons v. California Emergency Physicians Medical Group

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) brought by a physician against a medical group of which she was a partner,...

People v. Breslin

Criminal Law & Procedure
In a prosecution for corporal injury to a cohabitant, in which the defendant pled guilty and then claimed that her trial counsel provided ineffective...

Assessor for County of Santa Barbara v. Assessment Appeals Board No. 1

Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
In a case involving the tax assessment of transfers of ownership in two tenant-owned mobilehome parks, in which an assessment appeals board overturned...

Marriage of Green

Family Law
In a dispute between ex-spouses over the husband's CalPERS pension, which included four years of credit for past military service purchased with...

City of Livermore v. Baca

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
In an action for eminent domain by the City of Livermore seeking three takings of portions of commercial property owned by the appellant, a stipulated...

Bracher v. Superior Court (People)

Criminal Law & Procedure
In cases in which misdemeanor defendants in El Dorado County were required by the trial court to be present at a readiness and settlement conference,...

People v. Shokur

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
In a criminal case in which an Afghani national who was in removal proceedings filed a "nonstatutory" motion to raise a postjudgment claim of...