Access State and Federal Case Law, plus U.S. Supreme Court cases — for free!

Click on any of the case links below to view the full text of that case — for free — through lexisONE®, a legal research and news service from LexisNexis®. Login is required — registration is free!

   State Courts - California - April 17, 2009

  
Abernathy Valley, Inc. v. County of Solano, A121817, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION FIVE, April 17, 2009, Filed
View this case - free  

Overview: Parcels depicted on a subdivision map recorded in 1909 were not entitled to legal recognition under the Subdivision Map Act's grandfather clause, Gov. Code, ? 66499.30, subd. (d), because the law in effect at the time did not regulate the design, as defined in Gov. Code, ? 66418, and improvement, as defined in Gov. Code, ? 66419, of subdivisions.

Search Cases for Free

  
Apartment Assn. of Los Angeles County, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles, B204334, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION THREE, April 17, 2009, Filed
View this case - free  

Overview: City ordinance providing that if a landlord demolished residential property subject to the city's rent control law, and built new residential rental units on the same property within five years, the new units were also subject to the rent control law, was not barred or preempted by the California Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act.

Search Cases for Free

  
Century 21 Chamberlain & Assocs. v. Haberman, G040202, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION THREE, April 17, 2009, Filed
View this case - free  

Overview: Where defendant failed to meet her burden to show either of plaintiffs' causes of action for account stated and declaratory relief arose from activity protected by anti-SLAPP statute, Code Civ. Proc., ? 425.16, trial court correctly denied her anti-SLAPP motion; anti-SLAPP statute did not protect act of initiating private, contractual arbitration.

Search Cases for Free

  
In re Criscione, H032680, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SIXTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, April 17, 2009, Filed
View this case - free  

Overview: California Board of Parole Hearings failed to adhere to the appropriate evidentiary standard where certain of its findings did not support a conclusion that inmate was currently dangerous; inmate's parole plans were realistic, and unless there was new evidence pertaining to that factor, Board could not rely upon that as grounds for denying parole.

Search Cases for Free

  
Koepnick v. Kashiwa Fudosan America, Inc., A119316, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION FIVE, April 17, 2009, Filed
View this case - free  

Overview: In a case in which plaintiff sued a building owner after he was injured in an elevator accident, the owner owed plaintiff a nondelegable duty to maintain its elevator in a safe condition and, as a consequence, Proposition 51 did not apply to limit the owner's liability for noneconomic damages to several only.

Search Cases for Free

  
Back to Top