Petitioner Asmik Akopyan, M.D., seeks a writ of mandate
compelling the trial court to vacate its order granting real party
in interest Zulma Unzueta’s peremptory challenge to Judge
Anthony J. Mohr under Code of Civil Procedure section 170.61
filed after this court conditionally reversed the judgment entered
after a jury trial in favor of Dr. Akopyan on Unzueta’s claim for
m... More...   $0 (08-25-2020 - CA)

A jury returned verdicts in favor of plaintiff Timothy King against defendant U.S.
Bank National Association (U.S. Bank) for defamation, wrongful termination in violation
of public policy, and breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing,
awarding King almost $24.3 million in compensatory and punitive damages. U.S. Bank
filed a motion for judgment notwithstanding ... More...   $0 (07-29-2020 - CA)

¶1 Defendant in error, Fielding D. Haas, referred to as plaintiff, commenced proceedings against S.J. Sarkeys, an individual, and Sarkeys, Inc., a corporation, referred to as defendants, to recover attorney's fee allegedly due him. Plaintiff's action was predicated on the grounds that he had, at the request of defendants and each of them, commenced to perform and did perform professional services ... More...   $0 (02-25-2020 - OK)

George Fenimore was 92 and suffering dementia. On
March 27, 2013, his family took him to a local hospital because he
was incontinent and would not shower. This local hospital is not
a defendant.
On March 29, 2013, the local hospital transferred Fenimore
to a second hospital, which was UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiatric
Hospital. Within minutes of arriving at the second hospital,... More...   $0 (01-28-2020 - CA)

Andrew M.’s petition for writ of mandate presents an issue of first impression:
does a conditional reversal and limited remand to the juvenile court to conduct a transfer
hearing pursuant to Proposition 57, the Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016
(Cal. Const., art. I, § 32), constitute a “new trial” for purposes of exercising a Code of
Civil Procedure section 170.61 challe... More...   $0 (01-07-2020 - CA)

Appellants William Greene, California Consulting Group
(CCG), and R & R Trust1 obtained a judgment in their favor and
against respondent Karen de la Carriere (Carriere). The trial
court declared Greene the prevailing party and awarded him
attorney fees pursuant to a contractual attorney fees provision.
Greene nonetheless appealed, contending the trial court erred in
calcula... More...   $0 (08-31-2019 - CA)

This is the third chapter in our appellate review of this controversy, which
involves the wrongful denial of unemployment benefits by respondents Employment
Development Department (EDD) and the California Unemployment Insurance Board
(Board). After both EDD and the Board rejected a claim for unemployment benefits filed
by Jose Robles—and the trial court denied Robles’s petitio... More...   $0 (08-04-2019 - CA)

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... More...   $0 (07-07-2019 - CA)

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)

We recount some of the facts from an opinion authored by
Division Five of this District in the second of two related appeals,
which we will call Wertheim III. (Wertheim, LLC v. Currency
Corp. (Aug. 25, 2017, B270926) [nonpub. opn.].)
In 2009, a jury in Department 44 of the superior court
found Currency liable to Wertheim for breach of contract, and
awarded it $38,554.48. Th... More...   $0 (06-07-2019 - CA)

A vexatious litigant’s request to sue his attorneys for legal malpractice was
denied by the superior court, as was his motion for reconsideration of that request. This
court denied extraordinary relief. Undaunted, the vexatious litigant asked a different
presiding judge to give him leave to file the identical legal malpractice complaint. This
time, his request was granted and the c... More...   $0 (05-20-2019 - CA)