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   State Courts - California - January 26, 2009

  
California School Employees Assn. v. Colton Joint Unified School Dist., E044388, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION TWO, January 26, 2009, Filed
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Overview: School district that had a rule providing not less than 100 working days of paid sick leave as set forth in Ed. Code, § 45196, could not deduct an injured employee's vacation leave and differential leave concurrently; differential leave was defined in § 45196 as exclusive of vacation and thus had to be deducted separately, or consecutively.

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Chinese Yellow Pages Co. v. Chinese Overseas Marketing Service Corp., B197234, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION FIVE, January 26, 2009, Filed
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Dible v. Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, A120493, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION ONE, January 26, 2009, Filed
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Overview: An employee was not likely to succeed on the merits of a defamation claim based on statements that her former employer made to her about the reason for her termination because the employee could not prove publication, as required by Civ. Code, § 46. The possibility of the employee republishing the statement did not make it actionable.

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Doe v. California Lutheran High School Assn., E044811, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION TWO, January 26, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Students did not have a discrimination claim against a private religious school that expelled them for having a lesbian relationship because school was not a "business establishment" under Unruh Civil Rights Act, Civ. Code, § 51 et seq., but rather an expressive social organization whose primary function was inculcation of values in youth members.

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In re A.R., D053125, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION ONE, January 26, 2009, Filed
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Overview: In a dependency case, the juvenile court erred in refusing father's request to stay proceedings for 90 days pursuant to the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA), where father met the SCRA's conditions necessary to obtain a stay. Because a letter submitted by father's attorney met the statutory conditions to obtain a stay, a stay was mandatory.

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In re R.H., F055047, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, January 26, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Based on a father's history of meritless appeals in propria persona in his son's dependency proceedings, it was proper for the appellate court to designate him a vexatious litigant under Code Civ. Proc., § 391, subd. (b)(1), and to require a prefiling order under Code Civ. Proc., § 391.7, although he was the defendant in the underlying proceeding.

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Kasperbauer v. Fairfield, No. B200076, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION SIX, January 26, 2009, Filed
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Overview: The probate court had the authority to order the beneficiaries of a trust to pay attorney fees incurred by the trustee in completing and defending an accounting. The trustee's right to indemnification for expenses reasonably incurred in defending the accounting was conferred by Prob. Code, § 15685.

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People v. Force, G039186, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION THREE, January 26, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Application of the California Sexually Violent Predator Act, Welf. & Inst. Code, § 6600, as amended by Proposition 83 to defendant did not violate defendant's constitutional protections from ex post facto laws and being placed more than once in jeopardy for the same crime.

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Sanai v. Saltz, B198217 and B202787, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION SEVEN, January 26, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Consumer's cause of action under Civ. Code, § 1785.25, subd. (a), alleging that furnishers of credit information failed to investigate the accuracy of reported information upon receiving notice of a dispute was not federally preempted because 15 U.S.C. § 1681t(b)(F)(ii) expressly excepted § 1785.25, subd. (a), from preemption.

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Schatz v. Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory LLP, S150371, SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA, January 26, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Mandatory fee arbitration act (MFAA), Bus. & Prof. Code, § 6200 et seq., did not preclude enforcement of an arbitration agreement between a law firm and a client; Bus. & Prof. Code, § 6201, contemplated other proceedings, and references in Bus. & Prof. Code, § 6204, to a trial after MFAA arbitration did not bar contractual arbitration.

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