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St. Cyr v. CA Fair Plan Association

Contracts, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Dismissal of plaintiffs' complaint against defendant who alleged that although defendant paid them the full amount of their policy limits following...

Driscoll v. Superior Court (Spencer)

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Dismissal of defendant's cross-complaint alleging retaliation under the federal False Claims Act (FCA) is reversed and remanded, where state courts...

Crosby v. HLC Properties

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Family Law, Probate, Trusts & Estates
The trial court’s order granting the Estate of Wilma Crosby’s petition and holding that she possessed a community property interest in her former...

Brownstein v. Lindsay

Contracts, Intellectual Property, Copyright
Judgment for defendant on plaintiff's claim under the Copyright Act seeking a declaratory judgment of joint authorship of an ethnic identification...

R&R Pipeline, Inc. v. Bond Safeguard Insurance Company

Construction, Contracts, Insurance Law, Civil Procedure
Summary judgment in favor of defendant-insurer in this action to enforce a labor and material bond issued in connection with a subdivision project to...

MediVas, LLC v. Marubeni Corp.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
An appeal from an order compelling arbitration is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction where: 1) the district court neither explicitly dismissed nor...

American States Insurance Co. v. Travelers Property Casualty Co.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Product Liability
In a dispute between insurers over coverage for an injury incurred by an operator of a leased food truck when she was burned inside the truck by oil...

Hawkins v. TACA International Airlines

Contracts, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
In an action against defendant airlines for a violation of Labor Code 2810, in which plaintiff alleged that defendants were responsible for her...

Sandifer v. United States Steel Corp.

Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment to defendant-employer in a putative collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, seeking backpay for time spent...

Nativi v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company

Banking Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a suit brought by plaintiff-tenants against defendant-bank following foreclosure of property in which plaintiffs had been renting a converted...