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   State Courts - California - January 15 - January 16, 2009

  
In re Walter P., C056550, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT, January 15, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Defendant minor's home supervision probation condition did not amount to physical confinement and was an acceptable juvenile probation condition under Welf. & Inst. Code, ? 202, because at no point was he removed from his parents' physical custody, he could leave for school, and he could leave his home any time he was accompanied by a parent.

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Musaelian v. Adams, S156045, SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA, January 15, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Because Code Civ. Proc., ? 128.7, did not authorize recovery of sanctions in the form of an award of attorney fees to an attorney who responded in pro se to a filing abuse, the court of appeal was correct in reversing the trial court's award of attorney fees to a self-representing attorney as a sanction for such abuse.

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People v. Kenefick, C055070, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT, January 15, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Defendant was improperly convicted of four counts of forgery under Pen. Code, ? 470, subd. (a), based on forging the signatures of four individuals on two notes, because there could not be multiple convictions based on any subdivision of ? 470 with only one document involved. With two forged documents, there could be only two counts of forgery.

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People v. Luna, A119768, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION FOUR, January 15, 2009, Filed
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Overview: There was insufficient evidence to support defendant's conviction for attempting to manufacture a controlled substance where no act on the part of defendant went beyond preparation and could be regarded as an unequivocal overt act that could be said to be a commencement of the commission of the intended crime.

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State of California v. Continental Ins. Co. , E041425, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION TWO, January 15, 2009, Filed
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Veyna v. Orange County Nursery, Inc., G041305, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION THREE, January 15, 2009, Filed
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Overview: In an involuntary dissolution proceeding, a decree requiring a corporation to buy out shares under Corp. Code, ? 2000, to avoid dissolution could not, as a self-executing order, be automatically stayed on appeal. Because this was a special proceeding, the stay rules under Code Civ. Proc., ? 22, did not apply, as provided in Code Civ. Proc., ? 23.

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Eder v. Department of Fish & Game, A120532, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION ONE, January 16, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Dungeness crab permits were properly revoked because fishers violated Fish & G. Code, ? 8279.1, subd. (c), by fishing for crab in San Francisco and then in Oregon sooner than the permitted. Section 8279.1 was not an extraterritorial regulation of legal Oregon conduct and did not violate the Commerce or the Privileges and Immunities Clauses.

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