Case Digests

Pacific Gas and Electric Company v. Superior Court (Rowe)

Publication Date: 2017-04-06
Practice Area: Personal Injury
Industry: Entertainment and Leisure | Energy
Date Filed: 2017-04-05
Court: C.A. 1st
Judge:
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Horvitz & Levy, Robert H. Wright, Jeremy B. Rosen; Pacific Gas & Electric Company, Barbara J. Damlos; Sedgwick LLP, Gregory C. Read for Petitioner.
for defendant: Rouda, Feder, Tietjen & McGuinn, Timothy G. Tietjen; Law Office of Gerald Clausen and Gerald Clausen for Real Party in Interest.
Case Number: No. A146495

Payment of fee for recreational use of property deprives all landowners of statutory immunity (Stewart, J.)

DisputeSuite.com, LLC v. Scoreinc.com

Publication Date: 2017-04-06
Practice Area: Contracts | Diversity
Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
Date Filed: 2017-04-06
Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
Judge:
Attorneys: For plaintiff: J.J. Little & Associates and James J. Little for Plaintiff and Respondent.
for defendant: Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin, Marvin Gelfand, Brendan J. Begley; Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker and Robert Cooper for Defendants and Appellants.
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Party's success in enforcing forum selection clause did not make it prevailing party for purposes of attorney fees (Werdegar, J.)

McGill v. Citibank, N.A.

Publication Date: 2017-04-06
Practice Area: Consumer Protection | Class Actions
Industry: Financial Services and Banking
Date Filed: 2017-04-06
Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
Judge:
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Capstone Law, Raul Perez, Melissa Grant, Glenn A. Danas, Ryan H. Wu, Liana Carter and Katherine W. Kehr for Plaintiff & Respondent.
for defendant: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, Julia B. Strickland, Stephen J. Newman, David W. Moon and Marcos D. Sasso for Defendant and Appellant.
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Party's waiver of right to seek public injunctive relief unenforceable (Chin, J.)

In re Sterba

Publication Date: 2017-04-05
Practice Area: Bankruptcy | Civil Procedure | Diversity
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Date Filed: 2017-04-05
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: Kurtz, Dunn, and Jury, Bankruptcy Judges, Presiding Before: A. Wallace Tashima and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges, and Edward R. Korman,** District Judge.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas B. Provencher and Janis H. Grattan, Provencher & Flatt LLP, Santa Rosa, California, for Appellant.
for defendant: Thomas P. Kelly III, Santa Rosa, California, for Appellees.
Case Number: No. 14-60061

Ohio statute of limitations governed where application of California statute would unreasonably deny claimant any opportunity to be heard (Korman, J.)

Maloney v. T3Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 2017-04-05
Practice Area: Copyrights
Industry: Entertainment and Leisure | Technology Media and Telecom
Date Filed: 2017-04-05
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: Andre Birotte, Jr., District Judge, Presiding Before: MILAN D. SMITH, JR. and JOHN B. OWENS, Circuit Judges, and EDWARD R. KORMAN,* District Judge.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: John M. DeStefano (argued), Robert B. Carey, and Leonard W. Aragon, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Phoenix, Arizona, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
for defendant: Kelli L. Sager (argued), Karen A. Henry, Eric M. Stahl, and Diana Palacios, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Defendant-Appellee.
Case Number: No. 15-55630

Copyright Act preempted former student athletes' right of publicity claims arising from sale of their photographs (M.D. Smith, J.)

United States v. Gasca-Ruiz

Publication Date: 2017-04-05
Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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Date Filed: 2017-04-05
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: Gonzalo P. Curiel, District Judge, Presiding Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, and Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, M. Margaret McKeown, William A. Fletcher, Ronald M. Gould, Jay S. Bybee, Carlos T. Bea, N. Randy Smith, Paul J. Watford, Andrew D. Hurwitz, and Michelle T. Friedland, Circuit Judges.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter Ko (argued), Chief, Appellate Section, Criminal Division; Benjamin J. Katz, Assistant United States Attorney; Laura E. Duffy, United States Attorney; United States Attorney's Office, San Diego, California; for Plaintiff-Appellee.
for defendant: Vincent J. Brunkow (argued) and Ryan V. Fraser, Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., San Diego, California, for Defendant-Appellant.
Case Number: Nos. 14-50342, 14-50343

No abuse of discretion in sentencing court's imposition of two-level increase for "bodily injury" (Watford, J.)

Young v. City of Coronado

Publication Date: 2017-04-05
Practice Area: Real Estate
Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
Date Filed: 2017-04-04
Court: C.A. 4th
Judge:
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Schwartz Hyde & Sullivan and Kevin P. Sullivan for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
for defendant: McDougal Love Eckis Boehmer & Foley, Steven E. Boehmer and Randall R. Sjoblom for Defendants and Respondents.
Case Number: No. D070210

City's findings legally sufficient to support designation of privately owned building as historic resource (Aaron, J.)

People v. Scott

Publication Date: 2017-04-05
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Date Filed: 2017-04-04
Court: C.A. 2nd
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Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Assistant Attorney General, Colleen M. Tiedemann and Michael C. Keller, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
for defendant: Kevin D. Sheehy, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
Case Number: No. B270426

People v. Billie

Publication Date: 2017-04-05
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Date Filed: 2017-04-04
Court: C.A. 2nd
Judge:
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Xavier Becerra and Kamala D. Harris, Attorneys General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Paul R. Roadarmel, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and David F. Glassman, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
for defendant: Laini Millar Melnick, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
Case Number: No. 2d Crim. B265958

Use of shackles on defendant did not violate his right to represent himself (Perren, J.)

Batze v. Safeway, Inc.

Publication Date: 2017-04-05
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Retail
Date Filed: 2017-04-04
Court: C.A. 2nd
Judge:
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniels, Fine, Israel, Schonbuch & Lebovits, Paul R. Fine, Scott A. Brooks and Craig S. Momita; Law Offices of Ian Herzog and Ian Herzog; Law Offices of Stephen Glick and Stephen Glick for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
for defendant: Littler Mendelson, J. Kevin Lilly, R. Brian Dixon and Philip L. Ross for Defendants and Respondents.
Case Number: No. B258732

Employer claiming employees' tasks were primarily managerial not required to document each and every week (Manella, J.)