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   State Courts - California - February 4 - February 6, 2009

  
Delucchi v. Franchise Tax Bd., C056503, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT, February 4, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Franchise Tax Board properly denied taxpayers' claims for refund of 1995 state income tax payments from a 1986 sale of stock, as, under 26 U.S.C. ? 453(c), characterization of portion of profit that seller received in particular taxable year as either capital gain or ordinary income was determined as of that taxable year, not original year of sale.

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Dixon v. Superior Court, C058858, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT, February 4, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Disclosure of coroner and autopsy reports was properly denied under Gov. Code, ? 6254, subd. (f), the investigatory file exemption of the California Public Records Act, because they investigated the death of a person left in a field with bullet wounds, leading to a murder trial, and thus involved a definite prospect of criminal law enforcement.

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Eder v. Department of Fish & Game, A120532, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION ONE, February 4, 2009, Filed
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People v. Bartell, C058918, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT, February 4, 2009, Filed
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Overview: An order directing the payment of victim restitution to a bank was proper under Cal. Const., art. I, ? 28(b), and Pen. Code, ? 1202.4, where the bank was a direct victim of defendant's criminality because it had covered forged checks linked to defendant. The bank could not debit its account holder's account once it learned the checks were forged.

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County of Santa Clara v. Superior Court, No. H031658, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SIXTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, February 5, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Because California Public Records Act, Gov. Code, ? 6250 et seq., contained no provisions either for copyrighting a county's geographic information system basemap or for conditioning its release on an end user or licensing agreement by the requester, the record had to be disclosed as provided in the Act, without any such conditions or limitations.

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In re R.L., A120821, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION THREE, February 5, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Prosecutor did not violate Pen. Code, ? 654's bar to multiple prosecutions when he amended a juvenile petition to allege an assault with a deadly weapon charge against defendant juvenile, because defendant was still awaiting disposition of a charge that he had unlawfully possessed a billy club and the proceedings had not concluded.

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People v. Jackson, S110206, SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA, February 5, 2009, Filed
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Overview: A trial court did not err under U.S. Const., 6th & 8th Amends., at penalty phase of a capital trial in denying defendant a continuance to investigate adaptive functioning factors mentioned in a recent United States Supreme Court opinion and to wait for legislature to define mental retardation; trial court followed law set forth in the opinion.

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Department of Finance v. Commission on State Mandates, C056833, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT, February 6, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Where school districts were authorized, but not required, to provide their own peace officers and did not have provision of police protection as an essential and basic function, the Commission on State Mandates erred in finding that the California Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act's requirements were a reimbursable state mandate.

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Pine Terrace Apartments, L.P. v. Windscape, LLC, F054609, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, February 6, 2009, Filed
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Thomas v. Shewry, C058849, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT, February 6, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Provider's failure to exhaust administrative remedies barred his mandate petition challenging the denial of his application for reenrollment as a provider of Medi-Cal services, which was based on his outstanding liability for an overpayment that had been entered summarily as a judgment pursuant to Welf. & Inst. Code, ? 14172.

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