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   State Courts - California - May 7 - May 11, 2009

  
Dicon Fiberoptics, Inc. v. Franchise Tax Bd., B202997, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION EIGHT, May 7, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Taxpayer's complaint alleging that it had complied with all requirements for earning a tax credit for employing disadvantaged workers in an enterprise zone pursuant to Rev. & Tax. Code, ? 23622.7, and that the California Franchise Tax Board had denied its request for a refund was sufficient to state a cause of action for a tax refund.

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Doe v. California Department of Justice, D053176, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION ONE, May 7, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Although plaintiffs argued that California Department of Justice was equitably estopped from rescinding their exclusions from disclosure on its Megan's Law Web site because they detrimentally relied on exclusions they received in 2005 before Pen. Code, ? 290.46, was retroactively changed in 2006, their equitable estoppel argument was meritless.

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Keener v. Jeld-Wen, Inc., S163430, SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA, May 7, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Juror's silence on an apportionment question in a negligence action, resulting from the trial court's failure to poll the juror on one of multiple special verdict questions, was not an expressed disagreement with the verdict under Code Civ. Proc., ? 618; the statute provided no basis to invalidate the verdict as set out in the special verdict form.

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People v. Burgener, S116882, SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA, May 7, 2009, Filed
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Overview: On reconsideration of an application to modify a death verdict, defendant did not knowingly and intelligently waive his Sixth Amendment right to assistance of counsel because the trial court not only failed to advise defendant of the dangers and disadvantages of self-representation but instead actively encouraged defendant to represent himself.

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People v. Dyke, A117955, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION FOUR, May 7, 2009, Filed
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World Financial Group, Inc. v. HBW Ins. & Financial Services, Inc., No. B210884, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION SIX, May 7, 2009, Filed
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In re E.S., D052768, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION ONE, May 8, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Father's constitutional challenges to Fam. Code, ? 3041, were rejected, as statute's standards and criteria represented appropriate balancing of the competing interests involved in nonparental custody cases; in cases involving nonparental custody, ? 3041's detriment to child requirement was imposed in addition to best interest of child requirement.

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People v. Mays, C057099, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT, May 8, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Although defendant argued that his incriminating statements were coerced by the police pretending to conduct a polygraph test and fabricating fake documentary graph results, the mock polygraph test and fake test results did not warrant reversal of defendant's first degree murder conviction. Defendant's will was not overborne by the police ruse.

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Coast Plaza Doctors Hospital v. Blue Cross of California, B205892, COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION ONE, May 11, 2009, Filed
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Overview: In a case in which a hospital sued an insurer of a group health plan after the insurer refused to reimburse the hospital for the cost of emergency care provided to a patient, Health & Saf. Code, ? 1371.4, was not subject to ordinary preemption under ERISA because ? 1371.4 fell under the purview of ERISA's saving clause.

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Smith v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd., S150528, SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA, May 11, 2009, Filed
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Overview: Workers who obtained awards for future treatment of their industrial injuries and then prevailed in proceedings to obtain treatments denied by their insurers could not receive awards of attorney fees under Lab. Code, ? 4607, because the insurer in each case was disputing specific treatment requests, not challenging the validity of the award.

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