¶1 This was an action on a promissory note. The trial judge directed a verdict for the plaintiff, and the defendant appeals.

¶2 The only defense alleged in the answer was failure of consideration. The evidence which it is contended supported such defense is that a note had been owing to the plaintiff bank by the defendant's father and had been due and unpaid some while; that after the fat

A. Signing the arbitration agreements
Defendants Plum Healthcare Group, LLC, and White Fir Holdings, LLC, own and
operate Midtown Oaks Post-Acute (Midtown), a skilled nursing facility. On January 13,
2014, Lila Valentine was admitted to Midtown for “rehab” after she fell and broke her
right shoulder. The admission records identified Lila’s daughter, Darleen Valentine, as
Lila’s

Health and Safety Code section 1418.8 (section 1418.8) sets forth procedures to be
followed for nursing home residents who lack capacity to make their own health care
decisions. Most of the affected residents are elderly, many are poor, and all may be
described as “unbefriended” in the sense they are without family members, friends or
other legal surrogates to make health care deci

Edith Rogers appeals from her removal as administrator of the estate of her
grandfather Roscoe Sapp, Sr. (decedent), who died in 1994. Armuress Sapp and Brian
Lincoln, two of decedent’s grandsons, separately petitioned to remove Rogers as
administrator. The probate court found Rogers (1) had failed to comply with the court’s
2001 instructions that she and her coadministrator (who d

¶1 (Plaintiffs in error will be designated plaintiffs, and defendants in error, defendants.) The plaintiffs are minor children of A. P. Cash, suing through their legal guardian, A. F. Pyeatt, the purpose of which suit is to have canceled certain conveyances to the lands involved, which comprise the allotments of said minors and their deceased mother. Briefly stated, the grounds of recovery alleged

¶1 The defendant in error, Merry X. Ball, hereafter referred to as "plaintiff", instituted this action on December 7, 1953, against the plaintiffs in error, hereafter referred to as "defendants" or by name, to recover an undivided 2/9ths interest in the estate of Dewey W. Smith, her deceased father who died intestate in 1942 a resident of Cotton County, Oklahoma, and for an accounting in connectio

Appellant Carolyn Cohen and her company Here We Grow,
Inc., donated about a half million dollars to a San Diego spiritual
group called Kabbalah Centre International, Inc. (“Centre”).
Later Cohen wanted her money back. The trial court ruled she
had no such right. We reverse one of the trial court’s rulings that
concerns $25,000 and affirm all the rest.
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We summarize the

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This case presents two issues: does the nonmarital biological child of an
absentee father who never openly held her out as his own have standing under Code of
Civil Procedure section 377.60 (section 377.60) to sue for his wrongful death if she failed
to obtain a court order declaring paternity during his lifetime?
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If she does not have
standing, does section 377.60 violat

Petitioner David Dudek (David)1 appeals from a judgment entered after the trial
court sustained the demurrer of respondents Anne Kebisek Dudek,2 Tiffany Guzman,
Jeanette M. Kebisek, Mary J. Kebisek, Guillermo Andrade, Maria Sanchez, Ora H. Day,
Tonya Courtney, and Michael Quinn (the respondents) to David's petition (the Petition),
filed pursuant to the Probate Code, to recover mone

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This case involves a dispute over whether plaintiff and appellant
George Zakk is entitled to be paid and receive an executive producer
credit for a film that is a sequel to a film he had worked on and
developed. Zakk sued defendants Vin Diesel, One Race Films, Inc., and
Revolution Studios1 for breach of an oral contract, breach of an impliedin-fact
contract, intentional interfe