CA Pub. Decisions

When Californians vote for the President and Vice President of the United States, they may select from the candidates whose names are printed on the ballot or may write in the name of a candidate. (Elec. Code, §§ 6901, 15340.) 1 Although Californians cast their votes for those specific candidates, they do not directly elect the President and Vice President. Under the federal Constitution, the President and Vice President are instead

A jury convicted Steven Daniel Carrillo of first degree premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder. (Pen. Code, §§ 187, 189, subd. (a), 664; unlabeled statutory citations refer to this code.) The jury also found true a number of enhancement

S287404 First Appellate District, Division Two A168803 San Francisco City and County Superior Court CGC17557275 July 27, 2026 Chief Justice Guerrero authored the opinion of the Court, in which Justices Liu, Kruger, Groban, Evans, DeSantos,* and Feinberg** concurred.

Appellant Sarah M. (Mother) challenges for a second time the juvenile court’s order under Welfare and Institutions Code 1 section 366.26 terminating her parental rights to minors X.A. (born 2019) and E.A. (born 2021). In a prior appeal, we affirmed the juvenile court’s finding that the beneficial relationship exception to termination of Mother’s parental rights was inapplicable. (In re X.A. (Jan. 31, 2025, B338604) [nonpub. opn.].) But

George Vasquez appeals from a judgment entered after he pled guilty to firearm charges following the denial of his motions to unseal a search warrant affidavit, to traverse and quash the search warrant, and to suppress evidence. We conclude the trial

S283978 Second Appellate District, Division Six B325277 Santa Barbara County Superior Court VENCI00546574 July 27, 2026 Justice Kruger authored the opinion of the Court, in which Justices Corrigan, Liu, Groban, Evans, and Boulware Eurie*concurred.

Shawn Osborne and Lawrence Sand (the challengers) are registered voters in the Los Angeles Unified School District. In 2024 the District sought to issue $9 billion in bonds, which required voter approval because the bonds would be repaid by an ad valorem tax on the district’s property owners. Before the election the challengers filed a petition for writ of mandate in the trial court, seeking an order requiring various changes to the lan

Under validation statutes a public agency can file an action to uphold— that is, validate—its handling of an agency matter (see Code. Civ. Proc. § 860 et seq.). Validation actions can also be brought by private parties seeking to invalidate the matter in question, in what are sometimes called reverse validation actions. And when the validation statutes apply, “they supersede other mechanisms by which an interested private party might se

A commercial lease soured. The landlord won, and we affirmed, a significant money judgment against the tenant named in the lease. This appeal concerns the landlord’s postjudgment efforts to add several individuals and a corporation as judgment debtors through the summary process that has emerged under Code of Civil Procedure section 187. (Subsequent references to section 187 are to this provision.) The individuals are assertedly

Betsy Jentz sued RRT Enterprises LP dba Country Villa Wilshire Convalescent Center, Boardwalk West Financial Services, LLC, Rockport Administrative Services, LLC, and Shlomo Rechnitz (collectively, the defendants) for violating the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 15600 et seq., 1 the Elder Abuse Act), violating the rights of a resident or patient (Health & Saf. Code, § 1430, subd. (b)), and ne