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TJX Companies, Inc. v. Superior Court (Caldwell)

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Remedies
In a review of lower court rulings of a pending class action based on alleged violations of a statute prohibiting businesses from requiring credit...

Guardado v. Superior Court (Mariposa Gardens)

Civil Procedure, Remedies
In the context of parties' power to assert a peremptory challenge to a judge, a ruling under Civil Code section 3295(c) that a plaintiff has...

County of Contra Costa v. Public Employees Union Local One

Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In an appeal primarily addressing challenges to a lower court order finding that the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) did not have exclusive...

Santillan v. Roman Catholic Bishop of Fresno

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
In an action based on plaintiff's allegations of childhood sexual abuse by one of a Diocese's former clerics, summary judgment for defendant-Diocese...

Lopez-Quinones v. Puerto Rico Nat. Guard

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit brought by a former official of a significant unit within the Puerto Rico National Guard alleging he was terminated...

Devonwood Condominium Owners Ass'n v. Farmers Ins. Condominium Owners Ass'n

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
In a fire insurance policy coverage dispute concerning the effects of an appraisal award issued by an appraisal panel pursuant to the policy's...

Postal Instant Press, Inc. v. Kaswa Corp.

Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Debt Collection, Remedies
In a case addressing the doctrine of outside reverse piercing of the corporate veil, the court of appeals rules that a third party creditor may not...

Myerchin v. Family Benefits, Inc.

Contracts, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Evidence, Remedies
In a settlement dispute case wherein plaintiff asserted that a written settlement agreement entered into was unenforceable because defendant's...

Adair v. Stockton Unified Sch. Dist.

Contracts, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In an action brought by senior-teacher plaintiffs after a school district entered into a collective bargaining agreement for a new "compressed" salary...

Batiste-Davis v. Lincare, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In a Title VII suit brought against a former employer alleging wrongful termination of employment, judgment for employer is affirmed where: 1)...