• In re B.M.

    Publication Date: 2017-04-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-04-20
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Susan Sullivan Pithey, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Michael J. Wise, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Donna Ford, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: 2d Juv. No. B277076

    Butter knife wielded by assailant was "deadly weapon" (Yegan, Acting P.J.)

  • Gabrielle A. v. County of Orange

    Publication Date: 2017-04-20
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-03-24
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dordi Williams Cohen, Reuven L. Cohen and Anya J. Goldstein for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Woodruff, Spradlin & Smart, Daniel K. Spradlin and Roberta A. Kraus for Defendants and Respondents.

    Case Number: No. G051784

    Parents' no contest pleas to dependency jurisdiction barred later claims of minors' wrongful detention by county social workers (Moore, J.)

  • Tepper v. Wilkins

    Publication Date: 2017-04-20
    Practice Area: Elder Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-04-19
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Freeman, Freeman & Smiley, Stephen M. Lowe and Thomas C. Aikin for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Oldman, Cooley, Sallus, Birnberg & Coleman, Marc L. Sallus, Marshal A. Oldman and Susan B. Rosenblat for Defendant and Respondent Martha Wilkins, Individually and as Co-Trustee, etc.

    Case Number: No. B269900

    Adult child lacked standing to bring elder abuse claim on her mother's behalf (Perluss, P.J.)

  • People v. Armijo

    Publication Date: 2017-04-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-04-19
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Assistant Attorney General, Steven D. Matthews, Analee J. Brodie and Lindsay Boyd, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: James Koester, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. B266687

    Defendant's letter complaining of deficient representation warranted Marsden hearing (Small, J.)

  • Jackson v. Mayweather

    Publication Date: 2017-04-20
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-03-27
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allred Markoko & Goldberg, Michael Maroko, Marcus Spiegel, and John S. West for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Rick Edwards, Inc. and Rick Edwards for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. B266466

    Publication of sonogram depicting fetus prior to termination of pregnancy constituted cognizable basis for invasion of privacy claim (Perluss, P.J.)

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  • Featherstone v. Southern California Permanente Medical Group

    Publication Date: 2017-04-20
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Health Care
    Date Filed: 2017-04-19
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nixon Peabody, Michael R. Lindsay, Alicia C. Anderson and Mae K. Hau for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Rushovich Mehtani, Aanand Ghods-Mehtani and Lisa M. Watanabe-Peagler for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. B275225

    Employer's refusal to allow employee to rescind prior resignation not adverse employment action under FEHA (Johnson, J.)

  • Broadway Victoria, LLC v. Norminton, Wiita and Fuster

    Publication Date: 2017-04-20
    Practice Area: Legal Malpractice
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-04-19
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Degani & Galston LLP, Katherine Galston; and Krane & Smith, Marc Smith and Daniel L. Reback, for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Nemecek & Cole, Mark Schaeffer and Janette Bodenstein for Defendants and Respondents.

    Case Number: No. B266060

    Client's claim of attorneys' breach of fiduciary duty merely duplicated claim of legal malpractice (Kin, J.)

  • Baranchik v. Fizulich

    Publication Date: 2017-04-20
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-04-19
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: The Beck Law Firm and Thomas E. Beck, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester, Mildred K. O'Linn, Tony M. Sain and Mae G. Alberto, for Defendants and Respondents.

    Case Number: No. B268133

    Conviction for resisting an officer barred plaintiff's claim of excessive force (Kriegler, J.)

  • In re Edward B.

    Publication Date: 2017-04-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-03-21
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for Appellant: Clifford Stanley.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Respondents: Kathleen A. Kenealy, Acting Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey M. Laurence, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Donna M. Provenzano, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Violet M. Lee, Deputy Attorney General.

    Case Number: No. A148887

    Gang condition not reasonably related to juvenile offender's crime of purse snatching (Miller, J.)

  • United States v. Harris

    Publication Date: 2017-04-20
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-04-20
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Thelton E. Henderson, District Judge, Presiding Before: Richard C. Tallman and Paul J. Watford, Circuit Judges, and Louis Guirola, Jr.,* Chief District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Julie C. Reagin (argued), Assistant United States Attorney; Sara Winslow, Chief, Civil Division; Brian Stretch, United States Attorney; United States Attorney's Office, San Francisco, California; for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: Howard D. Neal (argued), Neal & Associates, Oakland, California, for Appellants.

    Case Number: No. 16-10152

    Writ of garnishment properly attached to trust distributions to satisfy criminal restitution order (per curiam)