• County of Los Angeles v. Allegheny Casualty Company

    Publication Date: 2017-07-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Date Filed: 2017-07-18
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Office of the County Counsel, Mary C. Wickman, County Counsel, Ruben Baeza, Jr., Assistant County Counsel and Joanne Nielsen, Deputy County Counsel for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Law Offices of John Rorabaugh, John M. Rorabaugh and Crystal L. Rorabaugh for Real Party and Interest and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. B268667

    Trial court lacked authority to order further extension of absconded defendant's appearance period (Bigelow, P.J.)

  • Bishop Paiute Tribe v. Inyo County

    Publication Date: 2017-07-19
    Practice Area: Native American Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-07-19
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Garland E. Burrell, Jr., District Judge, Presiding Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, Mary H. Murguia, Circuit Judge, and Michael M. Baylson,*District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dorothy A. Alther (argued), California Indian Legal Services, Escondido, California; Jasmine Andreas, California Indian Legal Services, Bishop, California; for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: John D. Kirby (argued), Law Offices of John D. Kirby, San Diego, California; Marshall S. Rudolph, Inyo County Counsel, Independence, California; for Defendants-Appellees.

    Case Number: No. 15-16604

    County sheriff's order directing tribal police to cease and desist from enforcing non-tribal laws presented judiciable controversy (Murguia, J.)

  • Harris v. Mangum

    Publication Date: 2017-07-18
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-07-18
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Susan R. Bolton, District Judge, Presiding Before: Ronald M. Gould, Richard R. Clifton, and Paul J. Watford, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Seth W. Lloyd (argued), Morrison & Foerster LLP, Washington, D.C.; Yuka Teraguchi and James E. Hough, Morrison & Foerster LLP, Tokyo, Japan; for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph I. Vigil (argued) and Joseph J. Branco, Deputy County Attorneys; William G. Montgomery, Maricopa County Attorney; Civil Services Division, Maricopa County Attorney's Office, Phoenix, Arizona; for Defendants-Appellees.

    Case Number: No. 15-15054

    Litigant had no interest that could be protected by appointment of guardian ad litem (Clifton, J.)

  • In re National Security Letter

    Publication Date: 2017-07-17
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Civil Rights
    Industry: Federal Government | Technology Media and Telecom
    Date Filed: 2017-07-17
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Susan Illston, District Judge, Presiding Before: Sandra S. Ikuta, N. Randy Smith, and Mary H. Murguia, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Crocker (argued), Nathan Cardozo, Lee Tien, Kurt Opsahl, Jennifer Lynch, David Greene, Cindy Cohn, and Aaron Mackey, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, California; Richard Wiebe, Law Office of Richard R. Wiebe, San Francisco, California; for Petitioner-Appellants.
    for defendant: Lewis S. Yelin (argued), Scott R. McIntosh, and Douglas N. Letter, Appellate Staff; Brian Stretch, United States Attorney; Benjamin C. Mizer, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Respondent-Appellee.

    Case Number: No. 16-16067 No. 16-16081 No. 16-16082

    Law authorizing imposition of nondisclosure requirement on recipient of national security letter does not violate First Amendment (Ikuta, J.)

  • Swigart v. Bruno

    Publication Date: 2017-07-17
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Date Filed: 2017-06-22
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: The Law Office of John Derrick and John Derrick for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Selman Breitman, Elaine K. Fresch, Rachel E. Hobbs and Melanie M. Smith for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. D071072

    Accident resulting from contact between horses inherent risk of endurance riding (Aaron, J.)

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  • Lewis v. Superior Court (Medical Board of California)

    Publication Date: 2017-07-17
    Practice Area: Privacy | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Date Filed: 2017-07-17
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fenton Nelson, Fenton Law Group, Henry R. Fenton, Dennis E. Lee and Benjamin J. Fenton for Petitioner.
    for defendant: No appearance for Respondent.Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Edward C. DuMont, State Solicitor General, Kathleen A. Kenealy, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gloria L. Castro, Assistant Attorney General, Janill L. Richards, Principal Deputy State Solicitor General, Aimee Feinberg, Deputy State Solicitor General, Kathleen Vermazen Radez and Samuel P. Siegel, Associate Deputy State Solicitor General, E.A. Jones III and Edward K. Kim, Deputy Attorneys General, for Real Party in Interest.

    Case Number: No. S219811

    Medical Board's accessing of patient prescription records did not violate patient privacy rights (Liu, J.)

  • Opinion of Xavier Becerra (16-603)

    Publication Date: 2017-07-14
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-07-11
    Court: Ca. A.G.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: No. 16-603

    The California Voter Participation Rights Act applies to charter cities, and to local school districts whose elections are governed by city cha

  • Sleep EZ v. Mateo

    Publication Date: 2017-07-14
    Practice Area: Landlord Tenant Law | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Date Filed: 2017-04-04
    Court: Super. Ct. (App. Div.)
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Law Office of Allen R. King and Allen R. King for Plaintiff and Appellant Sleep EZ.
    for defendant: Neighborhood Legal Services, Alexander Prieto and Jeffrey Uno for Defendants and Respondents Martiniano Mateo and Maximina Mateo.

    Case Number: No. BV 031618

    Landlord who demanded payment by mail bore risk of non-delivery (Ricciardulli, Acting P.J.)

  • Deutsche Bank National Trust Company v. Pyle

    Publication Date: 2017-07-14
    Practice Area: Real Estate | Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Real Estate
    Date Filed: 2017-07-13
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Parker Ibrahim & Berg, John M. Sorich, Bryant Delgadillo and Mariel Gerlt-Ferraro for Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Respondent.
    for defendant: Hennelly & Grossfeld and Ronald K. Giller for Defendants, Cross-complainants and Appellants.

    Case Number: No. D071079

    Void default judgment did not grant quiet title relief so as to validate subsequent transfer to purported bona fide purchasers (Nares, J.)

  • People v. Jeffrey G.

    Publication Date: 2017-07-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-07-13
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathleen A. Kenealy, Acting Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler and Jeffrey M. Laurence, Assistant Attorneys General, Rene A. Chacon and Katie L. Stowe, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Julia Freis, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. A149067

    Expert's hearsay testimony prejudiced petition for conditional release from state mental hospital (Margulies, J.)