California Court of Appeal unpublished opinions (not citable under CRC 8.1115).
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Doe v. Marysville Joint Unified School District CA3
John HR Doe filed and dismissed a state court action against the Marysville Joint Unified School District (the School District). Other Does filed and dismissed their own state court action against the School District. After that, John HR Doe and the other Does (collectively the D…
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Diaz v. Franco Labor, Inc. CA5
-ooOoo- This case involves an employment related dispute between defendant/appellant Franco Labor, Inc. (FLI) and plaintiff/respondent Norberta Diaz. Diaz is a former employee of FLI who brought individual and class action claims against FLI for various Labor Code violations. FLI…
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Dhillon v. Johal CA5
-ooOoo- Plaintiff and appellant Inderjit Dhillon (Dhillon) appeals from a judgment rendered after a court trial and in favor of defendant and respondent Balkar Singh Johal (Balkar)1 and other named defendants (Balkar and the other defendants are collectively referred to as defend…
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Correia v. Yim CA5
-ooOoo- * Before Meehan, Acting P. J., Harrell, J. and Guerra, J. INTRODUCTION Appellant Robert Yim appeals from the grant of a domestic violence restraining order where he is the restrained party. The order protects Veronica C., and her two daughters V.Y. and A.C. Appellant argu…
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Bramham v. Los Angeles Unified School District CA2/4
Plaintiff Griselda Bramham, a former teacher at Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and an officer in the Army Reserves, sued LAUSD for various violations of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (38 U.S.C. § 4301, et seq.; USERRA) and the Californ…
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Bertrang v. Ivory Holdings, LLC CA2/3
On appeal, Plaintiffs argue the trial court should have granted an application they never filed, and they were prejudiced by a typographical error in a minute order. Plaintiffs’ arguments lack merit. We affirm.
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Ahmed v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. CA1/2
Plaintiff Saleh Ahmed sued defendants Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) and Dako Resources, LLC (Dako) (together, defendants), and defendants moved to compel arbitration. Plaintiff did not dispute that he signed an arbitration agreement, but he argued the agreement i…
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Sterling Home Showcase v. Champion Home Builders CA3
Plaintiff Sterling Home Showcase, Inc. (plaintiff) bought manufactured homes from Skyline Homes, Inc. and its successor corporation, Champion Home Builders, Inc. (defendant), and then sold those homes to the public. After defendant ended the business relationship between the part…
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San Joaquin Facilities Management v. Dept. of Conservation CA5
-ooOoo- A byproduct of oil production is “produced water,” i.e., “groundwater that naturally occurs in oil and gas reservoirs, is brought to the surface with the extracted oil and gas, and is separated from the hydrocarbons after extraction.” (King & Gardiner Farms, LLC v. County…
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Riva v. Jones CA2/5
Appellant Jophe Jones (Jones) appeals from a portion of a judgment after a bench trial that was entered in favor of her sister Julia Riva (Riva) and Four Jays Music Company (Four Jays) in this action concerning the rights to songs composed by Harry Warren. Shortly after judgment …
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P. v. Ausborn CA5
-ooOoo- Defendant Randy Ausborn was convicted of failing to register as a sex offender upon release from incarceration, and failing to register as a transient upon release from incarceration. On appeal, he contends the trial court erred by declining to instruct the jury on the de…
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P. v. Gallegos CA5
-ooOoo- * Before Hill, P. J., Levy, J. and Meehan, J. Defendant Gilbert Gallegos pled guilty to second degree murder in 1992. He was sentenced to an aggregate term of 16 years to life in state prison. He filed a petition for resentencing, pursuant to former Penal Code section 117…
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P. v. Campbell CA6
Before this court for the third time, appellant Laron Desean Campbell appeals from the trial court’s judgment sentencing him to an aggregate term of 18 years 8 months in prison for multiple offenses in three criminal cases. In each of his two prior appeals (case Nos. H044517 and …
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P. v. Cervantes CA2/6
Mario Cervantes was originally charged with murder committed during the commission of an armed robbery. Cervantes is not the actual killer, and it is undisputed that he did not act with the intent to kill. Pursuant to a plea agreement, Cervantes pleaded guilty to voluntary mansla…
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P. v. Curtis CA2/5
Following a negotiated plea, Javeon Curtis (defendant) was convicted of driving or taking a vehicle without the owner’s consent in violation of Vehicle Code section 10851, subdivision (a). The trial court suspended execution of a three-year state prison sentence and placed defend…
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P. v. Story CA3
After stealing two lengths of copper wire from an AT&T manhole, defendant Rodney Stephen Story pled no contest to charges of grand theft and receiving stolen property in exchange for two years of probation and the dismissal of other charges. Defendant then violated probation and …
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P. v. Abulaban CA4/1
A jury convicted appellant Ali Nassar Abulaban of two counts of first degree murder (Pen. Code,1 § 187, subd. (a); counts 1 and 2) after he shot and killed his wife Ana Abulaban (Ana)2 and her new love interest Rayburn Barron. The jury found true the multiple murder special circu…
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P. v. Burton-Phillips CA4/2
A jury found defendant and appellant Craig Phillips (Craig)1 guilty of 49 counts of animal cruelty (Pen. Code, § 597, subd. (b))2, and three counts of illegally confining an animal (§ 597t). The same jury found defendant and appellant Deborah L. Burton-
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P. v. Velasquez CA4/3
Defendant Frank John Velasquez challenges his conviction for street terrorism at the second phase of a bifurcated jury trial. He claims his acquittal of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon at the first phase of trial barred his second-phase conviction, citing double…
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P. v. Woodard CA1/4
A jury convicted defendant James Woodard of five domestic violence offenses committed against his girlfriend, Jane Doe (JD), resulting in an aggregate prison term of nineteen years. On appeal, Woodard raises various claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, instructional error…