all - Opinion Summaries

Cole v. Patricia A. Meyer & Associates, APC

Attorney's Fees, Constitutional Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit for malicious prosecution and defamation against attorneys of record in a prior case, trail court's rulings are reversed where: 1) the...

Maracich v. Spears

Consumer Protection Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Class Actions, Commercial Law
In a suit by car buyers against lawyers who obtained the buyers' personal information from car delearships so that the lawyers could identify...

Hayes v. State of New York Attorney Grievance Committee

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Media Law
In a challenge to a New York regulation requiring a prescribed disclaimer statement to be made by attorneys who state that they are certified as a...

US v. Lopez-Avila

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
In an appeal from a judgment of the district court denying defendant's motion to dismiss her drug trafficking indictment, judgment is affirmed where a...

Blystone v. Horn

Sentencing, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Evidence, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In cross-appeals from a judgment of the district court denying defendant habeas relief from his conviction for first-degree murder, but granting him...

Kennedy v. Eldridge

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Family Law
In an appeal from an order of the family court granting plaintiff’s motion to disqualifying defense counsel who is also the father of the defendant in...

In re Finding of Kinney

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Judges & Judiciary, Sanctions
After filing a series of unsuccessful, baseless lawsuits relating to real property owned by lawyer in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, the...

People v. Witcraft

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Conviction and sentencing of defendant for causing a false or fraudulent insurance claim to be filed, Pen. Code section 550(a)(1), are upheld with an...

In the Matter of Thomas Liotti

Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Sanctions
Respondent-attorney is publicly admonished for factual misrepresentations where misrepresentations were intentional and worthy of discipline, even...

Cornell v. Kirkpatrick

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
In an appeal from a judgment of the district court denying plaintiff's petition for habeas relief from his conviction for rape, judgment is reversed...