CA Pub. Decisions

1. MUNOZ v.CITY OF UNIONCITY
   Mar 18, 2007
   Where jury in wrongful death action found defendants, a city and its police officer, liable for negligence and battery, apportioning the negligence 45 percent to the city, 50 percent to the officer, and 5 percent to decedent; and where court of appeal upheld the finding of liabil…
2. California Family Bioethics Council v. Cali. Inst. for Regenerative Med Part I
   Mar 18, 2007
   Initiative that established, and provided for the funding of, public entity to conduct stem cell research did not violate constitutional requirement that initiative deal with a single subject, since provisions permitting funding of "vital research opportunities" beyond th…
3. California Family Bioethics Council v. Cali. Inst. for Regen. Med Part I I
   Mar 18, 2007
   Initiative that established, and provided for the funding of, public entity to conduct stem cell research did not violate constitutional requirement that initiative deal with a single subject, since provisions permitting funding of "vital research opportunities" beyond th…
4. California Family Bioethics Council v. Cali. Inst. for Regen. Med Part III
   Mar 18, 2007
   Initiative that established, and provided for the funding of, public entity to conduct stem cell research did not violate constitutional requirement that initiative deal with a single subject, since provisions permitting funding of "vital research opportunities" beyond th…
5. PEOPLE v. ZAIDI, PART I
   Mar 18, 2007
   Trial court inadequately advised defendant of the consequences of pleading no contest to a sex offense where he was told that he must register as a sex offender pursuant to Penal Code Sec. 290 but was not specifically told that the registration obligation is lifelong.
6. PEOPLE v. ZAIDI PART II
   Mar 18, 2007
   Trial court inadequately advised defendant of the consequences of pleading no contest to a sex offense where he was told that he must register as a sex offender pursuant to Penal Code Sec. 290 but was not specifically told that the registration obligation is lifelong.
7. PEARL O NEILL v. NOVARTIS CONSUMER HEALTH, INC., PART I
   Mar 18, 2007
   Rejection of proposed jury instruction that compliance with government standards cannot be considered as a basis for assessing the safety of a product in a design defect claim was not error; trial court correctly told jurors that "FDA action or inaction, though not dispositiv…
8. PEARL O NEILL v. NOVARTIS CONSUMER HEALTH, INC., PART II
   Mar 18, 2007
   Rejection of proposed jury instruction that compliance with government standards cannot be considered as a basis for assessing the safety of a product in a design defect claim was not error; trial court correctly told jurors that "FDA action or inaction, though not dispositiv…
9. ASFAW v. WOLDBERHAN Part I
   Mar 18, 2007
   In calculating child support, depreciation on rental properties is not deductible from annual gross income.
10. ASFAW v. WOLDBERHAN Part II
    Mar 18, 2007
    In calculating child support, depreciation on rental properties is not deductible from annual gross income.
11. PEOPLE v. GUEVARA
    Mar 18, 2007
    Where custodian of records did not produce the entire personnel file for the court's review in response to discovery request and record did not indicate that trial court actually reviewed the list submitted by city attorney in support of the custodian's decision to produc…
12. POIZNER v. FREMONT GENERAL CORPORATION PART I
    Mar 18, 2007
    Allegations by plaintiff, the liquidator of an insolvent insurer, that defendant, the parent company of the insolvent insurer and of another subsidiary, misappropriated net operating losses of the insolvent insurer in order to reduce its own tax liability without compensating ins…
13. POIZNER v. FREMONT GENERAL CORPORATION PART II
    Mar 18, 2007
    Allegations by plaintiff, the liquidator of an insolvent insurer, that defendant, the parent company of the insolvent insurer and of another subsidiary, misappropriated net operating losses of the insolvent insurer in order to reduce its own tax liability without compensating ins…
14. POIZNER v. FREMONT GENERAL CORPORATION PART III
    Mar 18, 2007
    Allegations by plaintiff, the liquidator of an insolvent insurer, that defendant, the parent company of the insolvent insurer and of another subsidiary, misappropriated net operating losses of the insolvent insurer in order to reduce its own tax liability without compensating ins…
15. DYER v. CHILDRESS
    Mar 18, 2007
    Where plaintiff brought a defamation suit against a former film school colleague and others involved in the production of a movie portraying a "rebellious slacker" with plaintiff's name and addressing issues facing "Generation X" individuals in the 1990s, tria…
16. PEOPLE v. ROBLES
    Mar 18, 2007
    A criminal defendant has a personal and fundamental right to admit a probation violation even if his attorney disagrees with the decision to do so.
17. AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION v. SUPERIORCOURTOFLOS ANGELESCOUNTY PART I
    Mar 18, 2007
    Under Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act and unfair competition law, an individual's statutory right to sue in a representative capacity may not be assigned to a third party. Sec. 17203 of the unfair competition law, as amended by Proposition 64, providing that represen…
18. AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION v. SUPERIORCOURTOFLOS ANGELESCOUNTY PART II
    Mar 18, 2007
    Under Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act and unfair competition law, an individual's statutory right to sue in a representative capacity may not be assigned to a third party. Sec. 17203 of the unfair competition law, as amended by Proposition 64, providing that represen…
19. HART v. DODGE PART I
    Mar 18, 2007
    Under Civil Code Sec. 2988.9 which provides that a defendant in a vehicle lease contract action is deemed to be the prevailing party for the purpose of an attorney's fee award if defendant "alleges in his or her answer that he or she tendered to the plaintiff the full amo…
20. PEOPLE v. VOGEL PART I
    Mar 18, 2007
    Where defendant was prosecuted on different charges in two different counties based on evidence obtained as a result of a single arrest, and court in first case ruled that probable cause existed for his arrest which ruling was affirmed on appeal he was barred by doctrine of colla…