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Wilson v. County of Napa

Environmental Law, Elections, Government Law
In a petition for a writ of mandate seeking to compel the County of Napa and the registrar to place on the county ballot their proposed initiative...

Gonzalez v. Santa Clara County Dep't of Social Servs.

Family Law, Attorney's Fees
After a Mother's successful challenge to an administrative order declaring that she should be reported to the statewide child abuse index for what was...

In Re: Gray

Habeas Corpus, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action to file a second or successive 28 U.S.C. section 2254 petition challenging his conviction for first-degree murder, the petition is denied...

People Ex Rel Reisig v. Acuna

Injury & Tort Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an appeal of a civil judgment granting a permanent (seven-year) injunction enjoining public nuisance activities of a criminal street gang, the...

Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Ctr. v. Eli Lily and Co.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In an appeal of a decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board holding all claims of a patent, which claims a method of arresting or regressing a...

Ali v. US

Family Law, Immigration Law, Administrative Law
In an suit challenging the denial of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' (USCIS) Notice of Intent to Deny (NOID) plaintiff's I-130 petition...

People v. Vandiver

Sentencing, Criminal Law & Procedure
In the People's appeal of the trial court's grant of a Proposition 47 petition for resentencing of a felony to a misdemeanor for receiving stolen...

Ramsey v. Muna

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an interlocutory appeal in an action against the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and one of its agencies brought by a doctor, who used...

Eli Lily and Co. v. Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Ctr.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In an appeal of inter partes review of the claims of a pharaceutical patent for anticipation by prior art, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's...

McKernan v. Superintendent Smithfield SCI

Habeas Corpus, Criminal Law & Procedure
A petition for writ of habeas corpus relief from conviction of murder is granted where petitioner's counsel, unlike any competent counsel, failed to...