CA Pub. Decisions

1. VILLAGE NORTHRIDGE v. STATE FARM FIRE AND CASUALTY COMPANY PART I
   Feb 16, 2008
   A modification decision.
2. HAMMOND v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
   Feb 16, 2008
   Plaintiff raised triable issues as to timeliness of her claims of age and race discrimination in violation of FEHA by presenting evidence supporting a reasonable inference that defendant engaged in acts some within the one year limitations period each of which was intentionally d…
3. HAMMOND v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES PART II
   Feb 16, 2008
   Plaintiff raised triable issues as to timeliness of her claims of age and race discrimination in violation of FEHA by presenting evidence supporting a reasonable inference that defendant engaged in acts some within the one year limitations period each of which was intentionally d…
4. HAMMOND v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES PART III
   Feb 16, 2008
   Plaintiff raised triable issues as to timeliness of her claims of age and race discrimination in violation of FEHA by presenting evidence supporting a reasonable inference that defendant engaged in acts some within the one year limitations period each of which was intentionally d…
5. HIRANO v. HIRANO
   Feb 16, 2008
   A modification decision.
6. SHELLER v. THE SUPERIOR COURT PART I
   Feb 16, 2008
   Where attorney appearing pro hac vice for plaintiffs in a class action sent a communication to prospective class members that contained at least one misrepresentation, trial court lacked authority to impose sanctions that it could not impose on a California attorney, such as atto…
7. SHELLER v. THE SUPERIOR COURT PART II
   Feb 16, 2008
   Where attorney appearing pro hac vice for plaintiffs in a class action sent a communication to prospective class members that contained at least one misrepresentation, trial court lacked authority to impose sanctions that it could not impose on a California attorney, such as atto…
8. AMERICAN CASUALTY CO. OF READING v. MILLER
   Feb 16, 2008
   Release of methylene chloride into a public sewer was environmental pollution for purposes of pollution exclusion in comprehensive general liability policy.
9. THE PEOPLE v. JEFFERSON
   Feb 16, 2008
   Where police bugged jail cell and placed defendants in cell together hoping they would talk, such action was not "interrogation"; trial court did not violate defendants' Fifth Amendment or Miranda rights when it admitted tape of conversation into evidence. Where defen…
10. In re Marriage of JEFFREY W. and MARTHA ROTHROCK
    Feb 16, 2008
    Annuity purchased from undifferentiated and unallocated personal injury settlement is not income for purpose of calculating child support. Trial court did not violate wife's right to due process by considering husband's supplemental trial memorandum, which was filed late …
11. THE PEOPLE v. GARCIA,
    Feb 16, 2008
    Trial court was not required to conduct a full evidentiary hearing on the question of defendant's competence where doubt as to competence was expressed by defense counsel whom defendant discharged in order to represent himself, but not by the judge, and there was no substanti…
12. BOOTH v. SANTA BARBARA BIPLANES
    Feb 16, 2008
    Waiver and release by which plaintiffs, participants in an aerial sightseeing tour, agreed to "voluntarily assume all risk, known and unknown, of injuries, however caused, even if caused in whole or in part by the action, inaction, or negligence of the released parties to the…
13. COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT v. SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTR
    Feb 16, 2008
    Southern California Air Quality Management District abused its discretion in issuing a negative declaration for a diesel fuel manufacturing project where opponents offered substantial evidence supporting a fair argument that the project's nitrogen dioxide emissions may have a…
14. COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT v. SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY MANAG PART I
    Feb 16, 2008
    Southern California Air Quality Management District abused its discretion in issuing a negative declaration for a diesel fuel manufacturing project where opponents offered substantial evidence supporting a fair argument that the project's nitrogen dioxide emissions may have a…
15. COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT v. SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY MANAG PART II
    Feb 16, 2008
    Southern California Air Quality Management District abused its discretion in issuing a negative declaration for a diesel fuel manufacturing project where opponents offered substantial evidence supporting a fair argument that the project's nitrogen dioxide emissions may have a…
16. COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT v. SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY MANAG PART III
    Feb 16, 2008
    Southern California Air Quality Management District abused its discretion in issuing a negative declaration for a diesel fuel manufacturing project where opponents offered substantial evidence supporting a fair argument that the project's nitrogen dioxide emissions may have a…
17. COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT v. SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY MANAG PART IV
    Feb 16, 2008
    Southern California Air Quality Management District abused its discretion in issuing a negative declaration for a diesel fuel manufacturing project where opponents offered substantial evidence supporting a fair argument that the project's nitrogen dioxide emissions may have a…
18. DELLOCA v. THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY Part II
    Feb 13, 2008
    Where parties and judge in suit against defendant for breaching indenture agreement agreed to procedure whereby judge reviewed pleadings submitted by parties and issued tentative ruling, held telephonic hearing while judge was out of state, and prepared and electronically transmi…
19. DELLOCA v. THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY Part I
    Feb 13, 2008
    Where parties and judge in suit against defendant for breaching indenture agreement agreed to procedure whereby judge reviewed pleadings submitted by parties and issued tentative ruling, held telephonic hearing while judge was out of state, and prepared and electronically transmi…
20. THE PEOPLE v. THE PACIFIC LUMBER COMPANY Part I
    Feb 13, 2008
    Absolute litigation privilege of Civil Code Sec. 47(b) applies in action brought by public entity under Unfair Competition Law. Noerr Pennington doctrine, under which "[t]hose who petition the government...are generally immune from antitrust liability," bars unfair compet…