A jury awarded plaintiff and appellant, Shirlean Warren, $17,455.57 in damages
pursuant to the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act (Civ. Code, § 1790 et seq.)
(the Song-Beverly Act), commonly known as California’s “lemon law.” (Goglin v. BMW of
North America, LLC (2016) 4 Cal.App.5th 462, 467, fn. 5 (Goglin).) As part of the
judgment, the court awarded Warren $115,848.24 in attorney

Plaintiff DLI Properties, LLC filed an unlawful detainer action against defendant
Cherokee Hill after she failed to pay rent and defaulted on the parties’ lease agreement.
Defendant raised as an affirmative defense plaintiff’s failure to comply with Civil Code
section 1962’s1 disclosure requirements. On appeal, defendant contends section 1962,
subdivision (c), bars a “successor own

SI 59 LLC (appellant) appeals from a judgment of dismissal
following a demurrer to its Second Amended Complaint (SAC) by
Variel Warner Ventures, LLC (Variel Warner), Variel Builders,
LLC, (Variel Builders), Verdugo Management & Investment, Inc.
(Verdugo), Troxler Residential Ventures XIX, LLC (Troxler), and
Troxler Venture Partners, Inc. (Troxler Venture) (collectively
resp

Defendant Kava Holdings, Inc., dba Hotel Bel-Air
(defendant) terminated two restaurant servers after they were
involved in an altercation during work. One of the fired
employees, plaintiff Felix Huerta, sued defendant on a variety of
legal theories, most of which were dismissed before or during
trial. The trial court granted defendant’s motion for nonsuit as to
plaintiff’s

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Trans fat has become increasingly recognized as a
dangerous substance and a leading cause of numerous serious
ailments, including heart disease and diabetes. Food and Drug
Administration (“FDA”) regulations govern the information
reported within a food product’s Nutrition Facts Panel on the
product’s label.1 As for trans fat, FDA regulations provided,
at all relevant times,

Cheryl Searcy (“Plaintiff”) sued the defendants, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and Philip Morris Inc. (together, “Defendants”) for unintentional and intentional torts arising from the death of her mother, Carol Lasard, alleging that Lasard’s illnesses were caused by her addiction to cigarettes manufactured by Defendants. The jury found for Plaintiff on both the unintentional and intentional tort c

In 1925, Merck Pharmaceuticals sent a letter to Morris Fishbein, chairman
of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The letter said, “We have been
recently startled by the unexplainable demand on the part of our customers for Sodium
Borate C. P. Powder. From our representatives, we have learned that a Dr. Brinkley, of
Milford, Kansas, has broadcast recommendations for the

Although an in-depth examination of oil-and-gas principles is not necessary to resolve the merits of this appeal, we pause briefly to define the various rights at issue in a mineral estate so as to ground our subsequent discussion and provide context as to what rights the McDaniels purportedly believed they were conveying, and what rights may have actually been conveyed in the agreement the Mc

Wendy Younger purchased the lot at issue in the Montana Vista area in 1997. She purchased the property as part of an agreement between the Paso View Christian Association and the Montana Vista Volunteer Fire Department. Due to a rash of fires and resulting property loss in the area, the Association donated two lots on Kyle Road to the Fire Department in exchange for the department building a

The Hanlons served in the role of general contractor in the construction of their new home (the Residence) in Austin. They entered into a contract with River City to install the Residence’s drywall and to apply decorative texture to the drywall. They hired another contractor, Nicolas Guerrero, to paint the interior walls after River City finished its drywall and texture work. At some point after

Plaintiff William Jae Kim (Kim) was severely injured after he lost control
of his Toyota Tundra pickup truck and drove off an embankment. Together with
his wife, Kim brought this strict products liability suit against defendant Toyota
Motor Corporation and related entities (collectively, “Toyota”), claiming that the
pickup truck was defective because its standard configuration did

On October 1, 1983, Helen Morrison conveyed to Ralph Stalcup an 80-acre tract of real property located in Stafford County. This property was subject to a 1967 oil and gas lease (the Morrison Lease) entitling the lessor to a one-eighth royalty. The original lessor had drilled an oil well on the property in 1970. In the general warranty deed conveying the property, Morrison reserved mineral rights t

Plaintiff Branches Neighborhood Corporation (Branches or the
association), a community association incorporated pursuant to the Davis-Stirling
Common Interest Development Act (Civ. Code, § 4000, et seq.)(the Act), filed an
arbitration claim against the association’s developer, defendant CalAtlantic Group, Inc.,
formerly known as Standard Pacific Corp. (Standard), for construction d

Plaintiff Branches Neighborhood Corporation (Branches or the
association), a community association incorporated pursuant to the Davis-Stirling
Common Interest Development Act (Civ. Code, § 4000, et seq.) (the Act), filed an
arbitration claim against the association’s developer, defendant CalAtlantic Group, Inc.,
formerly known as Standard Pacific Corp. (Standard), for construction

Because the issues in this appeal arise from a defendant’s removal of a case filed in state court to federal court, we begin with the relevant background principles for such a removal. Under 28 U.S.C. § 1441(a), a defendant may remove certain actions filed in state court to a district court so long as a federal court has jurisdiction over the action, and certain procedural requirements are met. T