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REPLACEMENT COPY OF TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2025

Name Category Published
Marilley v. Bonham
Differential fees for nonresident fishers permissible under Privileges and Immunities Clause, where nonresidents receive benefit from state in form of significant resident taxes used to maintain and police fishery resources. 		Constitutional Law Dec. 21, 2016
Kase v. Metalclad Insulation Corporation
Navy insulation requirements implicitly requiring use of asbestos-laced product constitute 'reasonably precise specifications' under the government contractor defense. 		Civil Procedure Dec. 21, 2016
Medical Marijuana Inc. v. ProjectCBD.com
Anti-SLAPP properly denied where complaint alleged no act on the part of movant in support for claims movant sought to strike. 		Anti-SLAPP Dec. 20, 2016
Tidwell Enterprises v. Financial Pacific Ins. Co.
Incremental structural damage incurred during insurance policy period culminating in fire after expiration of policy may still require insurer to cover insured. 		Insurance Dec. 20, 2016
Armin v. Riverside Community Hospital
Physician need not complete internal peer review process before filing action pursuant to hospital whistleblower statute, although he may not name individual defendants in complaint. 		Anti-SLAPP Dec. 20, 2016
Fowler Packing Co. Inc. v. Lanier
California businesses that were allegedly singled out in Assembly Bill 1513 may maintain their equal protection challenge over the law's carve-out provisions. 		Civil Rights Dec. 20, 2016
United States v. Thomas
Despite unreasonable length of mandatory minimum sentence in eyes of court, imposition of sentence per low end of Sentencing Guidelines for remaining crimes not unreasonable. 		Criminal Law and Procedure Dec. 20, 2016
U.S. v. Yepiz
Court's rejection, without explanation, of defendant's letter seeking new counsel results in vacated conviction and remand for new trial. 		Criminal Law and Procedure Dec. 20, 2016
People v. Brown
Defendant fails to overturn witness intimidation conviction by asserting that he should have been convicted under specific, rather than general, statute. 		Criminal Law and Procedure Dec. 20, 2016
Property Reserve Inc. v. Superior Court (Department of Water Resources)
Trial court errs in holding precondemnation proceeding exempt from discovery, but landowners' failure to show prejudicial error results in affirmance. 		Eminent Domain Dec. 19, 2016
Conservatorship of B.C.
Unlike conservatorship proceedings under the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, probate conservatorships do not require personal waiver of conservatee's right to jury trial. 		Conservatorship Dec. 19, 2016
People v. Mickel
Passing references to psychiatric report questioning defendant's mental capacity not enough to require court to express concern for defendant's competency on record, as require by Pen. Code. Section 1368. 		Criminal Law and Procedure Dec. 19, 2016
People v. Franske
Thief who stole from employee's purse eligible for Prop. 47 resentencing relief even though she did not steal from 'openly displayed merchandise.' 		Criminal Law and Procedure Dec. 19, 2016
People v. Elizalde
Trial court's grant of Proposition 47 petition renders moot defendant's appeal of court's finding that she violated postrelease community supervision. 		Criminal Law and Procedure Dec. 19, 2016
Marriage of Schu
Spousal support properly denied to wife based on evidence of domestic abuse she perpetrated on her children to facilitate ongoing sexual abuse of her son's friend. 		Family Law Dec. 19, 2016
People v. Gonzales
Petitioner's conviction for identity theft did not foreclose eligibility for Prop. 47 relief where that identity theft conviction was unrelated to forgery counts. 		Criminal Law and Procedure Dec. 19, 2016
People v. Pinon
Imposition of one-year parole in resentencing offender under Prop. 47 erroneous where resulting period exceeded remainder of his post-release community supervision. 		Criminal Law and Procedure Dec. 18, 2016
Thompson v. Asimos
Assumption that lawsuit would have garnered full claim without defendant's breach of contract improper in award of damages to former business partner of defendant. 		Contracts Dec. 18, 2016
Ray M., a Minor
Failure to provide notice to all parties involved in minor's dependency case warrants reversal of juvenile court order adjudging minor a ward. 		Juveniles Dec. 18, 2016
San Diegans for Open Government v. City of San Diego (Sunroad Enterprises)
Challengers of development project not entitled to appeal substantial conformance review decision to city council. 		Environmental Law Dec. 18, 2016
Swoben v. Unitedhealthcare
Allegation of abuse of Medicare Advantage enrollee reporting system in proposed fourth amended complaint constitutes cognizable legal theory, meriting consideration in district court. 		Health Care Dec. 18, 2016
Tibble v. Edison International
Complaint that breach of duty claims were dismissed due to statute of limitations not forfeited, as argument articulated on both district and appellate level. 		Civil Procedure Dec. 18, 2016
Zapien v. Martel
California state prisoner fails to challenge destruction of audio tape recording of defense's strategy on due process grounds. 		Criminal Law and Procedure Dec. 18, 2016
People v. Nachbar
Did the trial court err by imposing an "electronics search condition" on the juvenile as a condition of his probation when that condition had no relationship to the crimes he committed but was justified on appeal as reasonably related to future criminality under People v. Olguin (2008) 45 Cal.4th 375 because it would facilitate the juvenile's supervision? 		Dec. 16, 2016
People v. Olguin
Does Proposition 47 ("the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act"), which reclassifies as a misdemeanor any grand theft involving property valued at $950 or less (Pen. Code, section 490.2), apply to theft of access card information in violation of Penal Code section 484e, subdivision (d)? 		Dec. 16, 2016
In Re D.A.
Did the trial court err by refusing to order the expungement of a juvenile's DNA record after his qualifying felony conviction was reduced to a misdemeanor under Proposition 47 (Pen. Code section 1170.18)? 		Dec. 16, 2016
In Re T.H.
Did the trial court err by refusing to order the expungement of a juvenile's DNA record after his qualifying felony conviction was reduced to a misdemeanor under Proposition 47 (Pen. Code section 1170.18)? 		Dec. 16, 2016
People v. Ramos
Does Proposition 47 ("the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act") apply to the offense of unlawful taking or driving a vehicle (Veh. Code, section 10851), because it is a lesser included offense of Penal Code section 487, subdivision (d), and that offense is eligible for resentencing to a misdemeanor under Penal Code sections 490.2 and 1170.18? 		Dec. 16, 2016
People v. Lavis
Does Proposition 47 ("the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act"), which reclassifies as a misdemeanor any grand theft involving property valued at $950 or less (Pen. Code, section 490.2), apply to theft of access card information in violation of Penal Code section 484e, subdivision (d)? 		Dec. 16, 2016
People v. Martin
Does the Safe Neighborhood and Schools Act [Proposition 47] (Gen. Elec. (Nov. 4, 2014)), which made specified crimes misdemeanors rather than felonies, apply retroactively to a defendant who was sentenced before the Act's effective date but whose judgment was not final until after that date? 		Dec. 16, 2016
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