Writing for a unanimous panel, Justice Banke, joined by Justices Humes and Smiley, held Tuesday that a Cal-OSHA regulation requiring 'controlling contractors' to ensure safe site access does not create a nondelegable duty that would exempt construction comp...
The California Court of Appeal on Tuesday ruled that the Los Angeles County Professional Peace Officers Association did not clearly and unmistakably waive its right to meet and confer over the County's decision to outsource security work to a private contra...
In a published decision Tuesday, the California Court of Appeal held that a trial judge properly corrected a clerical error in calculating state prison time but 'went beyond its authority' by reducing misdemeanor sentences, explaining that 'the error in the...
A California Court of Appeal panel on Tuesday held that a solo practitioner's negligent misrepresentation claim can proceed against Wells Fargo after a bank employee assured the attorney that a $99,700 check 'cleared' despite lacking a reasonable basis for...
The California Court of Appeal on Tuesday held that a medical center's prohibition on abortion clinics violates the state constitutional right to reproductive freedom, with Justice Peña writing for a unanimous three-judge panel that 'enforcement of the proh...
The California Court of Appeal on Tuesday struck numerous unauthorized stayed sentences under alternative sex offense sentencing schemes for Jazz Bradley, who was convicted of forcible rape and received life without parole, ruling that the One Strike law 'p...
Writing for a unanimous panel, Acting Presiding Justice Do, joined by Justices Buchanan and Kelety, held Tuesday that the defense of impracticability of performance in a breach of contract case is equitable in nature and must be tried to the court, not a ju...
Writing for a three-judge panel, Presiding Justice Martinez reversed Pedro Thomas DeLeon Tzul's first-degree murder conviction on Tuesday, holding that the trial court erred in excluding a handwritten note during the prosecution's case that contained crucia...