CA Pub. Decisions

1. In re KENNETH
   Feb 13, 2008
   Juvenile court cannot consider deferred entry of judgment under Welfare and Institutions Code Sec. 791 unless juvenile admits allegations of petition and waives right to jurisdictional hearing.
2. THE PEOPLE v. HUA
   Feb 13, 2008
   Prevention of destruction of evidence was not an exigent circumstance justifying police officers' warrantless entry into residence where only crime of which police were aware possession of marijuana was a nonjailable offense.
3. CROWLEY MARITIME CORPORATION v. BOSTON OLD COLONY INSURANCE COMPANY
   Feb 13, 2008
   Where liability insurer settled claims against its insured, then sued third party insurers for equitable contribution, the contribution claim did not arise from insurance contracts between insured and third party insurer so arbitration clauses of those contacts did not apply. Thi…
4. CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE OPEN SPACE v. SAN MATEO COUNTY LOCAL AGENCY FORMATION C
   Feb 13, 2008
   Where municipal district annexed property pursuant to Cortese Knox Hertzberg Act, trial court's decision that county local agency formation commission substantially complied with Government Code Sec. 57026(e) was not error even though commission failed to comply with statute&…
5. GOOD v. THE SUPERIOR COURT PART I
   Feb 13, 2008
   Proposition 69, the DNA Fingerprint, Unsolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act of 2004, requires misdemeanants who must register as sex offenders to provide DNA samples, regardless of whether the conviction triggering the registration requirement occurred before or after the in…
6. GOOD v. THE SUPERIOR COURT PART II
   Feb 13, 2008
   Proposition 69, the DNA Fingerprint, Unsolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act of 2004, requires misdemeanants who must register as sex offenders to provide DNA samples, regardless of whether the conviction triggering the registration requirement occurred before or after the in…
7. In re LEE DALE CROCKETT
   Feb 13, 2008
   Defendant's conviction for failure to register as a sex offender was in excess of jurisdiction and thus must be set aside by writ of habeas corpus where defendant did not appeal, where defendant was not required to register as a sex offender under California law, and convicti…
8. DELL, INC. v. THE SUPERIOR COURT PART I
   Feb 13, 2008
   Optional service contracts sold by computer manufacturer to its consumers at time of computer purchase are not tangible personal property and are exempt from taxation, even if computers and service contracts are sold for a single lump sum price, without a separate statement on th…
9. DELL, INC. v. THE SUPERIOR COURT PART II
   Feb 13, 2008
   Optional service contracts sold by computer manufacturer to its consumers at time of computer purchase are not tangible personal property and are exempt from taxation, even if computers and service contracts are sold for a single lump sum price, without a separate statement on th…
10. LEVIN v. UNITED AIRLINES PART I
    Feb 13, 2008
    Trial court did not err in instructing jury to find that airport police had probable cause to arrest woman who sarcastically said she had a bomb in her luggage for making a false bomb "report" under Penal Code Sec. 148.1(a) merely if woman "stated" that a bomb had…
11. LEVIN v. UNITED AIRLINES PART II
    Feb 13, 2008
    Trial court did not err in instructing jury to find that airport police had probable cause to arrest woman who sarcastically said she had a bomb in her luggage for making a false bomb "report" under Penal Code Sec. 148.1(a) merely if woman "stated" that a bomb had…
12. LEVIN v. UNITED AIRLINES
    Feb 13, 2008
    A modification decision.
13. BULLOCK v. PHILIP MORRIS USA, INC PART I
    Feb 13, 2008
    Substantial evidence supported findings that cigarette manufacturer made intentional misrepresentations and false promises to consumers where witnesses testified without contradiction that defendant publicly denied all allegations that its products were harmful and contended that…
14. BULLOCK v. PHILIP MORRIS USA, INC PART II
    Feb 13, 2008
    Substantial evidence supported findings that cigarette manufacturer made intentional misrepresentations and false promises to consumers where witnesses testified without contradiction that defendant publicly denied all allegations that its products were harmful and contended that…
15. BULLOCK v. PHILIP MORRIS USA, INC PART III
    Feb 13, 2008
    Substantial evidence supported findings that cigarette manufacturer made intentional misrepresentations and false promises to consumers where witnesses testified without contradiction that defendant publicly denied all allegations that its products were harmful and contended that…
16. BULLOCK v. PHILIP MORRIS USA, INC PART IV
    Feb 13, 2008
    Substantial evidence supported findings that cigarette manufacturer made intentional misrepresentations and false promises to consumers where witnesses testified without contradiction that defendant publicly denied all allegations that its products were harmful and contended that…
17. COUNTY OF VENTURA v. CHANNEL ISLANDSMARINA
    Feb 13, 2008
    County's refusal to allow lessee of county land from removing improvements at end of lease term did not amount to inverse condemnation even if such refusal was a breach of lease. County's breach of lease did not entitle plaintiff to value of in place improvements as damag…
18. ESTHER B., v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES
    Feb 13, 2008
    Plaintiff was not entitled under the attorney fault provision of Code of Civil Procedure Sec. 473(b) to relief from denial of attorney's fee motion where substantial evidence supported trial court finding that plaintiff, not her attorney, was responsible for briefing delay th…
19. COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO v. KENNETH JAMES WALSH
    Feb 13, 2008
    A modification decision.
20. COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO v. KENNETH JAMES WALSH
    Feb 13, 2008
    A modification decision.