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Gallop v. Cheney

Asset Forfeiture, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Judges & Judiciary, Sanctions
In a motion to disqualify the panel from consideration of her petition for panel rehearing and rehearing in banc in a case involving allegations that...

Van Sickle v. Gilbert

Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
In an action for accounting and breach of fiduciary duty, judgment of the trial court is reversed because although the court did not abuse its...

US v. Salley

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Conviction and sentencing of defendant for possession of a firearm following a conviction of misdemeanor domestic violence, 18 U.S.C. section...

Firemen's Fund Ins. Company v. Superior Court (Front Gate Plaza, LLC)

Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Evidence, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a petition for a writ of mandate vacating the trial court‘s order compelling an attorney, who was a member of a law firm that formerly represented...

Orange Co. Water Dist. v. The Arnold Engineering Co.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a public nusiance action arising from groundwater contamination, judgment of the trial court denying defendants' motion to disqualify opposing...

Reilly v. Greenwald & Hoffman, LLP

Civil Procedure, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Injury & Tort Law
In an action against defendants alleging negligent and tortious conduct for facilitating a majority shareholder's conversion of corporate funds to her...

Desert Outdoor Advertising v. Superior Court (Murphy)

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
A sophisticated businessperson client, who was represented by a lawyer under a fee agreement that does not contain an arbitration clause, that signs a...

In re Violation of Rule 38

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Sanctions, Civil Procedure, Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Sanctions
In dispute arising from the sanction of counsel for filing and arguing a frivolous case, court, in keeping with other sister-circuits, awards a...

In re Attorney Disciplinary Appeal

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Sanctions, Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Ethics & Disciplinary Code
In an appeal arising from a decision by the court’s committee on grievances declining to take disciplinary action against appellant’s former attorney,...

In Re: Complaint of Judcial Misconduct

Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Judges & Judiciary
Complaint against a magistrate judge on the grounds that judge unlawfully granted defendants’ request for dismissal in a civil action and that a...