California Court of Appeal - Opinion Summaries

Giacometti v. Aulla, LLC

Labor & Employment Law, Professional Malpractice, Tax Law, Injury & Tort Law
In employees' suit for professional negligence against an accounting firm, claiming that the firm negligently or fraudulently over-reported income on...

Fireside Bank Cases

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Debt Collection
In coordinated class actions challenging a lender's collection practices, trial court's entry of dismissals with prejudice against all class members...

People v. Nazeri

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Conviction of defendant for first degree murder of his wife and mother-in-law is affirmed where there was sufficient evidence to sustain defendant's...

Arntz v. Superior Court

Administrative Law, Elections
Trial court's grant of a city supervisor's petition for declaratory relief that S.F. Charter section 2.101 did not prohibit her from standing for...

People v. Jeha

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In a conviction of defendant for sexual penetration by foreign object on an unconscious person, trial court's order of mandatory lifetime sex offender...

People v. Butler

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Conviction of defendant for involuntary manslaughter, arising from an incident in which defendant and other individuals beat, tied up, suffocated and...

Schram Constr., Inc. v. Regents of the Univ. of California

Construction, Contracts, Education Law, Government Contracts, Government Law
Trial court's denial of plaintiff's petition for a writ of mandate challenging a decision by a general contractor and University Regents, awarding a...

Worldmark, The Club v. Wyndham Resort Dev. Corp.

Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Tax-exempt Organizations
Trial court's denial of a nonprofit mutual benefit corporation's petition to set aside a member's section 8330 demand on the ground that it had...

People v. Russell

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Conviction of defendant for first-degree murder, evading an officer and causing serious bodily injury or death, residential burglary, and vehicle...

Gutierrez v. California Commerce Club, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiffs' putative class action lawsuit against California Commerce Club, Inc. (Club), claiming that they and other similarly situated members of...