LeRoy Guillory and 11 other plaintiffs appeal from the court’s denial of
their 42 U.S.C. section 1988 (§ 1988) motion for attorney fees as prevailing parties in
their civil rights claim against defendant Orange County Sheriff’s Department
Investigator Michele Hill. Plaintiffs contend the court abused its discretion when it
denied their request for attorney fees.
Section 1988 au... More...   $0 (06-25-2019 - CA)

In September 2016, appellant began dating Evonne White. Eventually, he
began spending most nights of the week at White’s apartment. One morning, while
appellant was still asleep, White looked through appellant’s cell phone and
discovered text messages showing that he had been unfaithful to her with other
women.
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White woke appellant and confronted him wi... More...   $0 (06-20-2019 - TX)

Here is what Code of Civil Procedure1 section 583.130 says: “It is the
policy of the state that a plaintiff shall proceed with reasonable diligence in the
prosecution of an action but that all parties shall cooperate in bringing the action to trial
or other disposition.” That is not complicated language. No jury instruction defining any
of its terms would be necessary if we were su... More...   $0 (06-14-2019 - CA)

This is the fifth and presumably final appeal in a lawsuit
which began in August 2014 as a garden variety commercial rent
dispute. In brief, Malibu Hillbillies LLC did not pay rent to its
landlord, appellant United Grand Corporation. United Grand
filed a civil action to recover the overdue rent from Malibu
Hillbillies and its guarantor, respondent Marcie Stollof.
Although a... More...   $0 (06-14-2019 - CA)

Plaintiff/petitioner Jane Doe, a student-employee in the campus police department
at Southwestern College, brought claims relating to sexual harassment and sexual assault
against defendants/real parties Southwestern Community College District and three
District employees. Her complaint also alleged sexual harassment of two other female
District employees, which was presumably relev... More...   $0 (06-14-2019 - CA)

This case concerns a massive, months-long leak from a
natural gas storage facility located just outside Los Angeles.
According to the allegations before us, the accident severely
harmed the economy of a nearby suburb. We must decide if local
businesses — none of which allege they suffered personal injury
or property damage — may recover in negligence for income lost
because... More...   $0 (06-02-2019 - CA)

Code of Civil Procedure section 9981
creates an incentive
for settlement. It authorizes an award of costs to a party that
makes a pretrial settlement offer when the opponent rejects the
offer and obtains a lesser result at trial. (Martinez v. Brownco
Construction Co. (2013) 56 Cal.4th 1014, 1019.) In 1997, the
Legislature amended the statute to make the same incentive
a... More...   $0 (06-01-2019 - CA)