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Kaiser Cement and Gypsum Corp. v. Ins. Co. of State of PA

Class Actions, Contracts, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Remedies, Civil Procedure
In an insurance dispute involving how to apportion liability among insurers in continuing injury cases and arising from a first-level excess insurance...

Kono v. Meeker

Civil Procedure, Asset Forfeiture, Commercial Law, Debt Collection, Judgement Enforcement
In a dispute involving the scope of Code Civ. Pro. section 704.060(a), judgment of the trial court denying an exemption to a levy of execution is...

Brantley v. NBC Universal, Inc.

Media Law, Class Actions, Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law, Entertainment Law, Civil Procedure
In a class-action for damages and an injunction to compel programmers and distributors of television programming to sell cable channels separately,...

US v. The Painting Known as Le Marché

Asset Forfeiture, Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies
In a dispute arising from a forfeiture action by the government, U.S.C. Section 1595a, concerning a Camille Pissarro monotype, judgment of the...

Adams v. Superior Court (Centinella Freeman Regional Med. Ctr.)

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a petition for a writ of mandate seeking to vacate a trial court order abating plaintiff's wrongful death and survival causes of action because...

United Parcel Service v. Superior Court

Labor & Employment Law, Civil Procedure
In a petition for a writ of mandate challenging the trial court's specific rulings arising from Labor Code section 226.7, petition is denied because...

Hall-Villareal v. City of Fresno

Civil Procedure, Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a petition for a writ of mandate ordering the respondent to conduct a hearing on the merits of a termination decision, judgment of the trial court...

Collins v. Sutter Memorial Hospital

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In an action for medical malpractice, judgment of the trial court granting plaintiff a new trial after vacating a defense summary judgment is...

Mlodzinski v. Cormier

Injury & Tort Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a Section 1983 dispute alleging that defendants-police officers used excessive force against plaintiffs while executing search and arrest warrants,...

Jackson v. Tate

Injury & Tort Law, Contracts, Contracts, Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
In an action involving a claim by the plaintiff that National Guard recruiters forged his signature on re-enlistment papers, judgment of the district...