all - Opinion Summaries

Wheatherford v. City of San Rafael

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
Dismissal of an action challenging the enforcement practices of defendant-city and defendant-county with respect to the impoundment of vehicles is...

Protectmarriage.com v. Bowen

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections
Summary judgment in favor of defendants in an action challenging California's Political Reform Act of 1974, which requires political committees to...

Bryan v. Erie County Office of Children and Youth

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
In an action alleging that defendants placed plaintiff's son in harm's way by failing to disclose the violent history of a boy that plaintiffs...

Chaudhry v. City of Los Angeles

Attorney's Fees, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action brought by three organizational plaintiffs and the family and estate of a man who was shot and killed by defendant-city's police officer,...

Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright
In an copyright infringement action brought by plaintiff-copyright owner, who inherited the rights to her father's screenplay, which he had assigned...

McGugan v. Aldana-Bernier

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's complaint under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act against defendant-private hospital and...

Morales v. City of New York

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's Second Amended Complaint alleging malicious prosecution, abuse of process, deprivation of plaintiff's right to a fair trial,...

Sherman v. Town of Chester

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Dismissal of plaintiff's complaint alleging that defendant-town engaged in delay tactics preventing a decision on plaintiff's application for a...

Carman v. Carroll

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. section 1983, alleging that defendant-officer violated plaintiffs Fourth Amendment rights when he entered...

Digital Music v. Superior Court (Escape Media Group LLC)

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Media Law
The trial court's order that petitioner comply with the subpoena issued by Escape Media, which requested that petitioner disclose the identity of a...