all - Opinion Summaries

Holender v. Mut. Indus. North, Inc.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law
In a case addressing whether documents submitted to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) by an employee qualified as a "charge" within...

Rubens v. Mason

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In an attorney malpractice suit, summary judgment for attorney-defendants is vacated and remanded where the district judge appeared to have focused...

Crawford v. Carroll

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law
In a Title VII suit brought by an African-American employee alleging claims of retaliation and race discrimination by her Caucasian supervisors and...

People v. Wheat

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
A conviction and sentence for possession of cocaine with intent to deliver is affirmed over claims of error regarding the court's denial of...

U.S. v. Bowen

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
A conviction for aiding and abetting the retaliation against a witness, conspiracy to retaliate against a witness, and aiding and abetting the...

Cuellar v. US

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
The federal money laundering statute, 18 U.S.C. section 1956(a)(2)(B)(i) does not require proof that a defendant attempted to "legitimize" tainted...

US v. Santos

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Gaming Law
A judgment vacating defendants' convictions for violating the federal money-laundering statute is affirmed. Four Justices joined in finding that the...

Lillis v. AT&T Corp.

Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law
In an action wherein plaintiffs, former directors and officers of a corporation acquired by a stock-for-stock merger in 1999 who owned a 1994 stock...

Verdin v. Superior Court

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a prosecution for attempted premeditated murder as well as various other offenses, denial of a writ of mandate challenging a finding that the trial...

Perlin v. Fountain View Mgmt., Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
In order to recover attorney's fees under Welfare and Institutions Code section 15657, the plaintiff must establish by clear and convincing evidence a...