California Court of Appeal - Opinion Summaries

People v. Smith

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Securities Law
In a prosecution of defendant for grand theft and securities crimes, trial court's admission of agreements executed by individuals named in dismissed...

Standard Microsystems Corp. v. Winbond Elec. Corp.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Intellectual Property, Professional Malpractice, Trade Secrets
In plaintiff's suit against a Taiwanese corporation and an Israeli corporation claiming that they misappropriated the design of a microchip used in...

Carol Gilbert, Inc. v. Haller

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
In a case involving a default judgment arising from plaintiff's attempt to join defendant as a Doe defendant, which served a summons on defendant that...

Presta v. Tepper

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates, Property Law & Real Estate
In plaintiff's suit against his former partner's widow for her refusal to sell the trusts' interests in two partnerships to plaintiff, judgment of the...

Fidelity Nat'l Title Ins., Co. v. Schroeder

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Debt Collection, Government Law, Judgement Enforcement, Property Law & Real Estate
In a case involving property on which plaintiff was about to file an abstract of judgment as a lien against, and which defendant then deeded to...

Millennium Rock Mortgage, Inc. v. T.D. Serv. Co.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
Trial court's order issuing a preliminary injunction barring defendant from conducting a new foreclosure sale, due to the auctioneer's mistake which...

People v. Scott

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's sentence as a three strikes offender after conviction for robbery and carjacking is affirmed as, by applying the definition of a "strike"...

City of Anaheim v. Sup. Ct.

Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Cyberspace Law, Government Law, Tax Law
In proceedings arising from city's imposition of a "transient occupancy tax" against a number of online travel companies (OTC) in the collective...

Oddone v. Sup. Ct.

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's suit on behalf of her deceased husband against his former employer claiming that his brain tumor was caused by exposure to toxic...

Wollmer v. City of Berkeley

Administrative Law, Construction, Environmental Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action seeking to overturn approvals by the City of Berkeley and Berkeley City Council of use permits and zoning variances for a mixed-use...