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   State Courts - California - January 28, 2010

  
American Inernat. Underwriters Ins. Co. v. American Guarantee & Liability Ins. Co., H033195, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SIXTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, January 28, 2010, Filed
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Overview: Under a commercial auto policy defining an insured to include an owner from whom the insured trucking company hired a trailer, there was no coverage for an accident involving an independent driver who used his own truck and a subcontractor's trailer because the trucking company did not hire either vehicle within the meaning of Civ. Code, ? 1925.

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Biscaro v. Stern, B205856, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION EIGHT, January 28, 2010, Filed
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Overview: Where a trial court failed to rule on a former husband's motion for accommodation of his disability as required by Cal. Rules of Court, rule 1.100, a reviewing court was unable to assess meaningfully what impact the grant of accommodation would have had on the proceedings; thus, the error was structural without a showing of prejudice.

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Katzeff v. California Dept. of Forestry & Fire Protection, A122642, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION FOUR, January 28, 2010, Filed
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Overview: Although timber harvesting plans had expired pursuant to Pub. Resources Code, ? 4590, subd. (a), the approval of a conversion exemption under Pub. Resources Code, ? 4584, subd. (g)(1), and Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, ? 1104.1, subd. (a), required further environmental review to determine whether a wind buffer mitigation measure was still necessary.

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Mansouri v. Superior Court, C062366, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT, January 28, 2010, Filed
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Overview: Demand and refusal to arbitrate under the agreement, as a prerequisite to a petition to compel arbitration under Code Civ. Proc., ? 1281.2, was not proven because the arbitration provision specified a three-arbitrator panel, but the request that was refused was a request for arbitration before a single arbitrator unilaterally selected.

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Pellegrino v. Robert Half Internat., Inc., G039985, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION THREE, January 28, 2010, Filed
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Overview: Employment agreement provision shortening the statute of limitations for employee claims to six months was unenforceable because Lab. Code, ? 219, precluded waiver of overtime claims under Lab. Code, ?? 510, subd. (a), 1194, 201, 202, 203; meal and rest break claims under Lab. Code, ?? 512, 226.7; and a wage statement claim under Lab. Code, ? 226.

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People v. Beaty, Consolidate Case Nos. F055868/F056467, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, January 28, 2010, Filed
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Overview: Revocation of defendants Proposition 36 probation was error, as there was insufficient evidence to find that he was personally unamenable to treatment or that his medical marijuana use meant he was in danger of future criminality; authorized medical use of marijuana did not by itself render him unamenable for treatment as Proposition 36 defendant.

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People v. Lessie, S163453, SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA, January 28, 2010, Filed
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Overview: In the adult murder trial of a 16-year-old defendant, the court did not have to treat defendant's request to speak with his father as an invocation of the Fifth Amendment privilege and therefore exclude his statements during custodial interrogation because U.S. Supreme Court case law required a totality-of-the-circumstances test.

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People v. McKee, S162823, SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA, January 28, 2010, Filed
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Overview: The requirement that defendant, after his initial commitment under Sexually Violent Predators Act, Welf. & Inst. Code, ? 6600 et seq., had to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that he was no longer an SVP did not violate due process where he had been found beyond a reasonable doubt in his initial commitment to meet definition of an SVP.

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Stewart v. Rolling Stone LLC, A122452, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION ONE, January 28, 2010, Filed
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Overview: In a class action suit brought by musicians against defendants for, inter alia, commercial misappropriation, defendants' conduct was protected by the anti-SLAPP statute, where the act from which the complaint arose constituted conduct in furtherance of the right of free speech in connection with a public issue or an issue of public interest.

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