CA Pub. Decisions

1. HALL v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
   Apr 1, 2007
   Where attorney employed by county created entity that provided county counsel with "independent contractors" to assist in juvenile court cases brought suit alleging gender-based wage discrimination on the theory that the entity was merely a "payrolling scheme" ena…
2. SINAIKO HEALTHCARE CONSULTING, INC.v. PACIFIC HEALTHCARE CONSULTANTS PART I
   Apr 1, 2007
   The mere service of an untimely interrogatory response, which may or may not reflect a good faith effort to comply with the party's discovery obligations, does not divest the trial court of authority to hear and grant a motion to compel responses under Code of Civil Procedure…
3. SINAIKO HEALTHCARE CONSULTING, INC. v. PACIFIC HEALTHCARE CONSULTANTS PART II
   Apr 1, 2007
   The mere service of an untimely interrogatory response, which may or may not reflect a good faith effort to comply with the party's discovery obligations, does not divest the trial court of authority to hear and grant a motion to compel responses under Code of Civil Procedure…
4. FLIPPIN v. LOS ANGELES CITY BOARD OF CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONERS
   Apr 1, 2007
   Public employee waived right to a predisciplinary or Skelly hearing where employer accepted employee's offer to retire in lieu of dismissal, even though employee rescinded that offer after date that hearing was to have taken place. Agency's selection of same official to i…
5. ZUEHLSDORF v. SIMI VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
   Apr 1, 2007
   Trial court did not abuse its discretion in determining that student athlete was a prevailing party entitled to attorney fees under Government Code Sec. 800 in suit to enjoin high school from barring her participating in athletics where, although court denied student's perman…
6. KOURI v. SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
   Apr 1, 2007
   Investors established triable claim of fraud against accounting firm that allegedly deliberately or recklessly certified statements that showed corporation to be worth far more than its actual value, where plaintiff's expert opined that defendant's deviation from generall…
7. In re HUDIE JOYCE WALKER
   Apr 1, 2007
   A modification decision.
8. In re HUDIE JOYCE WALKER,
   Apr 1, 2007
   A modification decision.
9. PEOPLE v. DAVENPORT
   Apr 1, 2007
   Under Penal Code Sec. 2900.5(f), a defendant is entitled to credit time spent in a residential drug treatment facility as a condition for probation, pursuant to Proposition 36, against a subsequent prison term following probation revocation.
10. In re MARILYN A. PART I
    Apr 1, 2007
    Nothing in the laws governing dependency proceedings precludes the court from returning a child to the parents' home and ordering family maintenance services at the 12 month or 18-month permanency review hearings.
11. In re MARILYN A. PART II
    Apr 1, 2007
    Nothing in the laws governing dependency proceedings precludes the court from returning a child to the parents' home and ordering family maintenance services at the 12 month or 18 month permanency review hearings.
12. PEOPLE v. MATYE
    Apr 1, 2007
    Evidence was sufficient to establish abuse victim was a dependent adult within the meaning of Penal Code Sec. 368 where, though victim did not actually depend on defendant for day to day activities, facts that she had to wear a leg brace and use a cane or walker for walking and h…
13. PEOPLE v. PEREZ Part I
    Apr 1, 2007
    A statement of reasonable grounds for appeal required by Rule of Court 8.304(b), formerly Rule 30(b), must be filed within 60 days of the rendition of judgment even though Judicial Council in amending rule did not incorporate into the revised rule the express 60 day deadline of f…
14. PEOPLE v. PEREZ Part II
    Apr 1, 2007
    A statement of reasonable grounds for appeal required by Rule of Court 8.304(b), formerly Rule 30(b), must be filed within 60 days of the rendition of judgment even though Judicial Council in amending rule did not incorporate into the revised rule the express 60 day deadline of f…
15. PEOPLE v. PEREZ (M)
    Apr 1, 2007
    A modification decision.
16. PEOPLE v. DIXON Part I
    Apr 1, 2007
    At trial where defendant was found to be a sexually violent predator and recommitted to a secured facility under the Sexually Violent Predators Act, trial court abused its discretion in granting media's request to televise or videotape the proceedings where court failed to gi…
17. PEOPLE v. DIXON Part II
    Apr 1, 2007
    At trial where defendant was found to be a sexually violent predator and recommitted to a secured facility under the Sexually Violent Predators Act, trial court abused its discretion in granting media's request to televise or videotape the proceedings where court failed to gi…
18. PEOPLE v. SUN
    Apr 1, 2007
    Where defendant was charged with 10 separate violations of Penal Code Sec. 12020(a)(2), proscribing possession of large capacity magazines, trial court's order merging those charges into one count, in direct contradiction to the statutory authority of Sec. 12001(l), was in ex…
19. HASSO v. HASSO
    Apr 1, 2007
    Where corporation's distributions to shareholders in connection with a single transaction were less than 20 percent of the corporation's gross assets, those distributions did not constitute a "partial liquidation" of the corporation, so general rule that distribut…
20. PEOPLE v. CATLEY
    Apr 1, 2007
    Substantial evidence supported caretaker's conviction of theft by larceny where victim was a 68 year old man suffering from cognitive impairment due to Parkinson's disease and the medication taken to treat the disease, defendant took $17,000 of victim's money to buy h…