California Court of Appeal unpublished opinions (not citable under CRC 8.1115).
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Nguyen v. Cramer CA4/3
Plaintiff Peter Nguyen appeals the judgment entered against him in favor of defendants Rita Cramer, Rafael Avila, Jake Tran, and Lisa L. Kim (respondents) after the trial court sustained their demurrer to his operative third amended complaint (TAC) without leave to amend.1 Plaint…
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Nguyen v. Hutchins CA4/3
Plaintiff Peter Nguyen appeals the judgment entered against him in favor of defendant and respondent Nicholas A. Hutchins after the trial court sustained Hutchins’s demurrer to plaintiff’s operative second amended complaint (SAC) without leave to amend.1 Plaintiff failed to desig…
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Marriage of Wu and Chyczewski CA4/3
* * * This is an appeal from a judgment of contempt against appellant Dan Wu, the wife in this marital dissolution action. Wu was held in contempt because she transferred community funds into a foreign bank account controlled by her mother in violation of automatic family law res…
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Leonard, Dicker & Schreiber v. Azad CA2/5
. The loan was approved, and ready to close on five days’ notice.” Schuman noted that Azad’s cousin and the lender would be witnesses in the case. He added, “As I’ve said all along, it is crucial to show that you were ready, willing and able to pay the full purchase price - - bot…
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Kumar v. Waecker CA2/5
****** A doctor sued the attorney who represented his patient in a personal injury action, seeking to recover for the medical services he rendered to the patient pursuant to a lien on the settlement proceeds in the personal injury action. After litigating the merits of the case f…
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JL Financing v. Sanchez CA2/5
I. INTRODUCTION JL Financing, LLC (JL Financing), a sold-out junior lienor1, sued Charles L. Sanchez, Jr. (Sanchez), for breaching a promissory note. Following a bench trial, the court concluded that Code of Civil Procedure section 580d2 applied to bar recovery of a personal judg…
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In re D.G. CA3
Appellant M.M. (mother) appeals from the juvenile court’s 18-month status review hearing orders that terminated reunification services and did not return David G. and Daniel G. (minors) to mother under Welfare and Institutions Code1 section 366.22. Mother contends insufficient ev…
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In re S.S. CA6
D.S. (mother) and S.S. (father) (jointly, parents) appeal from a juvenile court order following a contested six-month review hearing (Welf. & Inst. Code,1 § 366.21, subd. (e)). The court ordered continuing family reunification services and rejected parents’ request that their chi…
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In re K.B. CA3
Appellant A.M. (mother), mother of minor K.B. (minor), appeals from the juvenile court’s jurisdictional orders and dispositional judgment. (Welf. & Inst. Code, §§ 300, 361, 395.)1 Mother contends that there was insufficient evidence to support the juvenile court’s exercise of jur…
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Glamlite v. Zaghian CA2/3
‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗ Appellant Khalil Brian Zaghian and respondent Awilda Gisselle Hernandez were 50 percent owners of respondent Glamlite, Inc. (Glamlite). After Hernandez and Zaghian filed complaints against one another alleging corporate misconduct, the parties entered…
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Elizondo v. Livermore Sales and Service CA1/3
Livermore Sales and Service, Inc. (Livermore Toyota) appeals the trial court’s denial of its petition to compel arbitration of a lawsuit brought by its former employee, Eduardo Elizondo. Livermore Toyota contends the trial court erred by finding the arbitration agreement unconsci…
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Build Solutions v. HLW International CA2/8
MEMORANDUM OPINION Appellant Build Solutions contends the trial court erred in denying leave to amend when it sustained demurrers to its First Amended Complaint against HLW International LLP. We find this matter appropriate for disposition by a memorandum opinion in accordance wi…
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Breckenridge Property Fund 2016 v. Haws CA3
Mere hours after a hearing during which the Sutter County Superior Court (trial court) granted plaintiff and respondent Breckenridge Property Fund 2016, LLC’s (Breckenridge) application for an order to sell real property of which defendant and appellant Charles Haws was the owner…
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Baghirzade v. Cal. Unemployment Ins. Appeals Bd. CA4/3
* * * This is a straightforward case that plaintiff Aynur Baghirzade has made unnecessarily complicated. Baghirzade is an attorney who applied for unemployment insurance benefits (unemployment benefits) from the Employment Development Department (the EDD). The EDD denied her clai…
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Anabi Oil Corp v. Fuel Enterprise CA2/2
This appeal arises from a commercial dispute involving a fuel supplier, the former owners of a gas station, and the purchasers of that gas station. After a three-day bench trial, the trial court entered judgment largely in favor of respondents Fuel Enterprise, Inc., Asaph Guirgui…
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Trivers v. Sherwood Management Co. CA2/7
INTRODUCTION When Sherwood Management Company, Inc. hired Maureen Trivers, Sherwood required Trivers to sign a series of documents that included an agreement to arbitrate disputes arising out of the employment relationship. After Trivers’s employment ended she filed this action, …
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S.F. Police Officers Assn. v. City and County of S.F. CA1/3
After San Francisco and its Police Commission (together, the city) implemented an order limiting when San Francisco police officers can make traffic stops, the San Francisco Police Officers Association (union) filed an unfair practice charge with the Public Employment Relations B…
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P. v. Collins CA3
A jury found defendant Xavier Atu Collins guilty of trafficking minors, dissuading a witness, and pandering a minor. As relevant to this appeal, at sentencing the trial court said it was imposing a concurrent five-year term on the count five trafficking conviction pertaining to m…
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P. v. Dawson CA3
Defendant Tiffany Dawson appeals from the trial court’s postjudgment order denying her motion pursuant to Penal Code section 1172.1.1 She argues the court erred in denying the motion and that we should remand for the court to reconsider it. We conclude the order is not an appeala…
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P. v. Madrid CA4/1
Alejandro Armando Madrid and Walter Bailey were two transient men who happened upon each other in the middle of the night in an otherwise quiet neighborhood. In their first interaction, Bailey approached Madrid near a gated apartment complex and demanded access. Madrid pulled out…