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   State Courts - California - January 5 - January 8, 2010

  
Fink v. Shemtov, G041557, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION THREE, January 5, 2010, Filed
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Overview: In an action by a creditor's assignee, the trial court properly declared plaintiff a vexatious litigant and issued a prefiling order because plaintiff had commenced, prosecuted, or maintained in propria persona at least five litigations that were finally determined adversely as to him within the meaning of Code Civ. Proc., ? 391, subd. (b)(1).

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People v. Maikhio, D055068, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION ONE, January 5, 2010, Filed
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Overview: Fourth Amendment required suppression of evidence in a prosecution for misdemeanor fishing offenses because a Department of Fish and Game warden did not have either the statutory or constitutional authority to stop defendant's vehicle after he observed defendant catch something but did not see what defendant caught and placed in a bag.

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Priceline.com Inc. v. City of Anaheim, G041338, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION THREE, January 5, 2010, Filed
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Overview: People ex rel. Clancy v. Superior Court did not bar contingency fee lawyers from assisting government lawyers as co-counsel in ordinary civil litigation. A tax assessment proceeding was such a case because it required no notable balancing or weighing of interests or values.

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Tien Le v. Lieu Pham, G041473, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION THREE, January 6, 2010, Filed
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Overview: Corporate bylaws obligated plaintiffs, the selling shareholders of a pharmacy corporation, to give defendant written notice of any intent to sell or transfer their shares. Bylaws also gave defendant a right of first refusal. Therefore, plaintiffs had a fiduciary duty to defendant not to violate the bylaws in regard to the right of first refusal.

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Weinstat v. Dentsply Internat., Inc., A116248, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION FOUR, January 7, 2010, Filed
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Overview: Order decertifying a class of dentists as to their cause of action against a manufacturer of a medical device for breach of express warranty was subject to reversal, where the order was rendered in the absence of new law or evidence and was contrary to law because it improperly grafted an element of prior reliance onto the express warranty claims.

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People v. Hollie, A121545, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION ONE, January 8, 2010, Filed
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Overview: No ex post facto violation occurred from applying the 10-year statute of limitations in Pen. Code, ? 801.1, subd. (b), to a 2006 indictment for a rape that occurred in 1996 because the six-year period of limitations applicable when the offenses occurred had not expired when the 10-year statute of limitations became effective.

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People v. Orozco, F056712, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, January 8, 2010, Filed
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Overview: Although defendant agreed to waive both ineffective assistance claims and the right to seek plea withdrawal as part of his plea bargain in a murder case, it was error to deny his request for a continuance to retain private counsel; the Sixth Amendment did not allow such a presentence waiver relating to counsel's advice regarding the plea agreement.

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Suleman v. Superior Court of Orange County, G042509, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION THREE, January 8, 2010, Filed
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Overview: In a case involving octuplets, a petition filed by nonrelative seeking appointment of guardian of children's estates should have been dismissed because nonrelative neither pleaded ultimate facts demonstrating mother had engaged in any financial misconduct, nor alleged any other information warranting court intervention in the family's finances.

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