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In re I.S.

Sentencing, Criminal Law & Procedure, Juvenile Law
In a juvenile action, the trial court’s denial of defendant’s petition for relief under Proposition 47 is reversed. The court held that a transferee...

Global Reinsurance Corp. of America v. Century Indemnity Co.

Insurance Law
In an dispute involving the extent to which a reinsurance company is obligated to reinsure an indemnity company pursuant to certain reinsurance...

Trustees of the Upstate New York Engineers Pension Fund v. Ivy Asset

Injury & Tort Law, Constitutional Law
In a suit brought by a board of trustees of a pension fund against the fund's manager, alleging breach of fiduciary duty in failing to advise the fund...

People v. Melendez

Criminal Law & Procedure
In an automatic appeal of a death sentence for conviction of first degree murder under the special circumstance of murder in the commission of a...

Sai v. Transportation Security Administration

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
In an action seeks interlocutory review of a district court decision denying him appointed counsel as a collateral order, in an underlying complaint...

People v. Lopez

Sentencing, Criminal Law & Procedure
Sentence and conviction by jury of possession and transportation of a controlled substance, in violation of Health and Safety Code sections 11378 and...

Sanders v. Phoenix Ins. Co.

Insurance Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a diversity suit arising from the refusal of insurer-defendant to defend and/or indemnify its named insured, an attorney, against claims of a...

People v. Johnson

Criminal Law & Procedure
In a case in which defendant was initially granted a mistrial on a second degree murder count, but on retrial was convicted of second degree murder,...

In Re: Nuvasive, Inc.

Patent, Intellectual Property
In an appeal of inter partes review by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board involving a patent that generally relates to a system and method for spinal...

Wilson v. Dep't of the Navy

Labor & Employment Law, Administrative Law
In an action seeking review of the Merit Systems Protection Board's decision denying petitioner's request for corrective action under the Uniformed...