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Bowers v. Raymond J. Lucia Companies, Inc.

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In a case in which a settlement agreement resulted in a binding mediation award in favor of the plaintiffs, the judgment is affirmed, where: 1) there...

San Diego City Firefighters, Local 145, AFL-CIO v. The Board of Administration of the San Diego City Employees' Retirement System

Contracts, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In consolidated suits by a union and individual plaintiffs challenging a city's repeal of aspects of its retirement program, the trial court's...

Frog Creek Partners, LLC v. Vance Brown, Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Construction, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Property Law & Real Estate
In a dispute between a homeowner and a home builder, a trial court order on attorney's fees is reversed to the extent it awarded the homeowner fees of...

Shifren v. Spiro

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Family Law, Legal Malpractice, Probate, Trusts & Estates, Property Law & Real Estate
In a legal malpractice action against brought after a court determined in the plaintiff's marriage dissolution action that trust documents prepared by...

Ortega v. Topa Insurance Co.

Class Actions, Contracts, Insurance Law
In a class action challenging an automobile insurer's policy providing two tiers of physical damage coverage, paying all of the reasonable costs...

California Pines Property Owners Ass'n v. Pedotti

Agriculture, Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
In a dispute between a property owners association and a rancher over water rights governed by a contract between the parties that obligated the...

Banks v. International Renting and Leasing Corp.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a suit that included claims for strict liability, breach of warranty, and loss of consortium arising out of an accident involving a rented van in...

Health Net, Inc. v. RLI Insurance Co.

Contracts, Insurance Law
In an insured's suit against four of its insurers seeking a declaratory judgment that the insurers had a duty to defend and indemnify it in certain...

Bickel v. Sunrise Assisted Living

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
In a suit against an assisted living facility that was ordered to arbitration with severance of one provision of the arbitration clause that specified...

Alday v. Raytheon Co.

Class Actions, Contracts, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies, Sanctions
In a class action by retired employees under section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act and section 502 of ERISA: 1) summary judgment to the...