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   State Courts - California - April 3 - April 7, 2009

  
Phillips v. TLC Plumbing, Inc., D053072, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION ONE, April 3, 2009, Filed
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Overview: On a negligent hiring and retention claim, a shooter's former employer did not owe a duty of care to the victim, even though the employer sent the shooter on a service call knowing of his domestic violence conviction, because the shooting was two years after the employment was terminated, and after the shooter and victim had a social relationship.

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A.N. v. County of Los Angeles, B204345, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION EIGHT, April 6, 2009, Filed
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Conroy v. Regents of University of California, S153002, SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA, April 6, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Claims of negligence, fraud, and negligent misrepresentation based on mishandling of donated bodies lacked merit; there was no evidence that the decedent's remains were among those reportedly mishandled, and the donee had exclusive control pursuant to Health & Saf. Code, §§ 7100.1, subd. (a), former 7150.5, subd. (h), former 7154, subd. (a).

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Mileikowsky v. West Hills Hospital & Medical Center, S156986, SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA, April 6, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Hearing officer lacked authority to prevent reviewing panel from fulfilling its statutory duty to review peer review committee's recommendation to deny doctor's applications for staff privileges. Hearing officer's authority to impose sanctions under Bus. & Prof. Code, § 809.2, subd. (d), was limited to granting or denying continuances.

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People v. Samaniego, B205512, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION TWO, April 6, 2009, Filed
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Overview: In a murder trial, there was sufficient corroborating evidence under Pen. Code, § 1111, to support testimony from an alleged accomplice, in part because motive was established by evidence that defendants were gang members and that the murder was motivated to benefit the gang by taxing the victim for selling drugs in gang territory.

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In re Lazor, H032842, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SIXTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, April 7, 2009, Filed
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Overview: In a case in which trial court ordered a new Pen. Code, § 3041, parole suitability hearing for an inmate serving an indeterminate term of 17 years to life for second-degree murder, the trial court erred because it substituted its own view of the gravity and circumstances of the commitment offense for that of the California Board of Parole Hearings.

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In re Marriage of Corona, D052502, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION ONE, April 7, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Marital settlement agreement that required the husband to pay half of the wife's income tax obligation could not be interpreted to include an implied requirement pursuant to Civ. Code, §§ 1655, 1656, that the wife select a tax filing status that would minimize her tax liability because the husband showed no legal necessity for the implied term.

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K.J. v. Arcadia Unified School Dist., B209843, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION THREE, April 7, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Plaintiff's allegations that a teacher exploited her age of minority, vulnerability, and confidence to seduce her into a sexual relationship were sufficient to invoke the delayed discovery rule of accrual, such that plaintiff's tort claim against a school district was deemed timely for pleading purposes.

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People v. Valenzuela, B209837, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION FIVE, April 7, 2009, Filed
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Overview: A $ 300 Pen. Code, § 290.3, subd. (a), fine that a trial court imposed against defendant constituted an unauthorized sentence; the trial court should have imposed a $ 200 § 290.3, subd. (a), fine because defendant's sex offense was committed before the 2006 amendment to § 290.3, subd. (a).

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