California Court of Appeal - Opinion Summaries

Formet v. Lloyd Termite Control Co.

Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In plaintiff's suit against a licensed pest inspection company, alleging that she sustained injuries from falling from a balcony as the result of the...

Kruss v. Booth

Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
In a shareholder derivative suit, involving a variation on a pump and dump scheme, the trial court's judgment of dismissal is reversed where: 1)...

In re Furnace

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Defendant's petition for habeas relief claiming that the evidence used to validate him and place him in the security housing unit for an indeterminate...

In re Ross

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's petition for habeas relief challenging the Governor's reversal of the parole board's finding that he was suitable for parole is denied as,...

Legacy Vulcan Corp. v. Superior Court

Contracts, Insurance Law
In an insured's petition for a writ of mandate challenging a pretrial order that decided three stipulated legal questions concerning the scope of the...

Luna v. Brownell

Probate, Trusts & Estates, Property Law & Real Estate
A quitclaim deed transferring property to the trustee of a trust is not void as between the grantor and grantee merely because the trust had not been...

G.R. v. Intelligator

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Family Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an attorney's special motion to strike plaintiff's complaint, arising from her representation of plaintiff's ex-wife in postmarital dissolution...

Homebuilders Ass'n of Tulare/Kings Counties, Inc. v. City of Lemoore

Administrative Law, Construction, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a challenge to a city's development impact fees as being invalid under the Mitigation Fee Act, the trial court's judgment is affirmed for the most...

Munn v. Briggs

Injury & Tort Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates
In plaintiff's petition in probate court against his sister and brother-in-law alleging tortious interference with his inheritance expectancy, probate...

People v. Wilkinson

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law, Sentencing
Trial court's order to have petitioner committed to the California Department of Developmental Services for placement is reversed where the trial...