California Court of Appeal unpublished opinions (not citable under CRC 8.1115).
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Justice West v. Wong CA2/8
This civil action is the fallout from a property sale that occurred following court orders in an earlier divorce proceeding. Plaintiff and appellant Justice West, Inc. views the sale as improper and seeks relief stemming from it. Defendant and respondent Lisa Wong contends Justic…
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In re R.G. CA4/1
INTRODUCTION J.G. (Mother) appeals from the juvenile court’s order terminating parental rights over her children R.G. and O.G. (Welf. & Inst. Code,1 § 366.26.) Mother contends, and the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (Agency) concedes, that the Agency failed to …
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In re Cesar S. CA2/8
INTRODUCTION Cesar S., Sr., (Father) appeals from the juvenile court’s findings and orders from the December 6, 2024 review hearing terminating jurisdiction and granting sole legal and physical custody to Yolanda D. (Mother). On appeal, Father argues the juvenile court erred in n…
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In re R.A. CA2/4
Guadalupe M. (mother) appeals a juvenile court disposition order removing her three children from her care. On appeal, mother first argues that there is a conflict between the court’s oral pronouncement for “home of parents,” and its written ruling removing the children from her …
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In re J.M. CA2/3
The juvenile court declared P.G. (born December 2021) a dependent child, finding the parents’ persistent domestic violence and father’s alcohol and drug abuse put the child at risk of serious physical harm. After initially denying Native American heritage, father filed a Parental…
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In re L.G. CA2/2
In this juvenile dependency appeal, S.R. (mother) challenges the juvenile court’s jurisdictional findings that she failed to protect her two children from their father’s substance abuse and domestic violence against her. The children’s father, J.G. (father), entered a no contest …
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In re Z.B.I. CA2/8
Mother A.B. appeals from juvenile court orders entered at a January 2026 status review hearing. Only orders concerning her child Z.B.I. are at issue. At the status review hearing, the court retained jurisdiction over Z.B.I., ordered Z.B.I.’s continued removal from Z.B.I.’s parent…
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Croft v. Liberty Mutual Fire Ins. Co. CA2/4
Defendant Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company (Liberty) appeals from an order imposing terminating and monetary sanctions against it. The court based its order on a finding that Liberty violated three court orders requiring it to produce the unredacted contents of a claim file …
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P. v. Clark CA5
-ooOoo- Defendant KC Scott Clark was convicted in a court trial of one count of forcible lewd act on a child and two counts of nonforcible lewd act on a child, and he was sentenced to 12 years in prison. His first claim on appeal is that his jury trial waiver was invalid as it wa…
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Karkera v. Redlands Community Hospital CA4/1
Revathi Karkera and Anchal Karkera (plaintiffs), as conservators for Dr. Suchal Karkera (Dr. Karkera), appeal from a judgment entered in favor of Redlands Community Hospital, Inc. (Redlands) after the trial court granted the hospital’s motion for summary judgment in their medical…
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J.R. v. L.A. Unified School Dist. CA2/1
J.R. (J.R.) sued respondent Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), alleging an LAUSD employee sexually abused him while he was a student in the district. The trial court granted LAUSD’s summary judgment motion on the basis that J.R. had failed to name the district employee …
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In re A.I. CA4/1
T.K. (Mother) appeals from the juvenile court’s jurisdictional and dispositional orders adjudicating her then approximately four-month-old son, A.I., a dependent of the court under Welfare and Institutions Code1 section 300, subdivision (b)(1), and removing him from her custody. …
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Wizmann v. Simon & Schuster CA2/2
Appellant Patrick Wizmann sued the publishers of his brother-in-law’s memoir, respondents Simon & Schuster, LLC (Simon & Schuster) and Forefront Books, LLC (Forefront Books) (collectively, respondents). Wizmann claimed that the synopsis printed on the inside flap of the memoir’s …
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Valdes v. Murrey CA2/2
This appeal is part of an ongoing legal battle between appellant Vanessa Valdes (Valdes) and respondent Stewart Lucas Murrey (Murrey). Valdes appeals the trial court’s order denying her motion to strike Murrey’s cross-complaint pursuant to the anti-SLAPP law (Code Civ. Proc., § 4…
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Tafoya v. Booster Fuels CA3
Anthony Tafoya filed a putative class action lawsuit against his former employer Booster Fuels, Inc. (Booster Fuels), alleging violations of the Labor Code and unfair business practices, and seeking civil penalties under the Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (Lab. …
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Redd v. Tyson & Mendes CA2/5
LaToya S. Redd (Redd) sued Tyson & Mendes LLP (Tyson & Mendes) and one of its attorneys William R. Johnson (Johnson) (collectively, Defendants), as well as several other law firms and lawyers, for failing to pay monies owed to her as part of the settlement of a prior lawsuit (the…
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Patterson v. Nuvision Credit Union CA4/2
Trina Patterson, representing herself, appealed after the demurrer filed by Nuvision Federal Credit Union (Nuvision) was sustained without leave to amend. We issued a tentative opinion indicating we were inclined to affirm the trial court’s ruling. In
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P. v. Sanchez CA4/1
In 2005, a jury convicted Oscar Rafael Sanchez of second degree murder (Pen. Code,1 § 187). Sanchez was sentenced to an indeterminate term of 15 years to life in prison. In April 2024, Sanchez filed a pro per petition for resentencing under section 1172.6. The court appointed cou…
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P. v. Popoca CA4/1
Simeon Hernandez Popoca (Hernandez) was convicted by a jury of nine felonies stemming from his sexual encounters with three girls no older than 14 years old, including one count of forcible rape. The evidence included testimony from the victims, relatives to whom the victims repo…
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P. v. Jones CA2/5
Defendant Freddie Howard Jones, Jr., (defendant) and several co-defendants were tried for murder in 2008. A jury found two of the co-defendants guilty of premeditated first degree murder and found defendant guilty of second degree murder. Many years later, defendant filed a petit…