• Johnson v. Open Door Community Health Centers

    Publication Date: 2017-09-12
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Health Care
    Date Filed: 2017-09-11
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel for Appellant: Stokes, Hamer, Kaufman & Kirk, LLP, Eric V. Kirk.
    for defendant: Counsel for Respondents: Janssen Malloy, LLP, Michael Morrison, Amelia F. Burroughs.

    Case Number: No. A143992

    Trip-and-fall in clinic hallway not result of medical negligence for purposes of MICRA (Reardon, J.)

  • Grotheer v. Escape Adventures, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2017-09-05
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Transportation
    Industry: Transportation | Entertainment and Leisure
    Date Filed: 2017-08-31
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: The Law Office of Robert J. Pecora and Robert J. Pecora for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Agajanian, McFall, Weiss, Tetreault & Crist and Paul L. Tetreault for Defendants and Respondents.

    Case Number: No. E063449

    Hot air balloons not common carriers (Slough, J.)

  • Murray v. Southern Route Maritime SA

    Publication Date: 2017-09-05
    Practice Area: Admiralty | Personal Injury | Expert Witnesses | Transportation
    Industry: Construction | Transportation
    Date Filed: 2017-08-31
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Robert S. Lasnik, District Judge, Presiding Before: M. Margaret McKeown, Carlos T. Bea, and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Howard Mark Goodfriend (argued) and Ian C. Cairns, Seattle, Washington; C. Steven Fury, Francisco A. Duarte, and Scott D. Smith, Fury Duarte P.S., Seattle, Washington; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
    for defendant: Philip A. Talmadge (argued), Talmadge/Fitzpatrick/Tribe, Seattle, Washington; Barbara L. Holland and David H. Smith, Garvey Schubert Barer, Seattle, Washington; for Defendants-Appellants.

    Case Number: No. 14-36056

    Vessel owner has duty to inspect before turnover of vessel to longshoremen (McKeown, J.)

  • Rubenstein v. Doe No. 1

    Publication Date: 2017-08-28
    Practice Area: Government | Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry: Education
    Date Filed: 2017-08-28
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Law Offices of Elliot N. Kanter, Elliott N. Kanter; Esner, Chang & Boyer, Holly N. Boyer and Shea S. Murphy for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Daley & Heft, Lee H. Roistacher, Richard J. Schneider, Reece A Roman; Jackson Lewis, Leila Nourani, Sherry L. Swieca and Douglas M. Egbert for Defendants and Respondents.

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    Delayed discovery statute does not extend accrual date for government claims (Chin, J.)

  • Jacobs v. Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Company

    Publication Date: 2017-08-15
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Date Filed: 2017-07-25
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Grassini, Wrinkle & Johnson and Brian Hong, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Horvitz & Levy, Lisa Perrochet, Joshua C. McDaniel; Bradley & Gmelich and Thomas P. Gmelich, for Defendant and Respondent.

    Case Number: 2d Civil No. B277832

    Brokerage firm not liable for obvious danger posed to prospective home buyer by empty swimming pool (Perren, J)

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  • Towery v. State of California

    Publication Date: 2017-08-11
    Practice Area: Civil Rights | Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-08-10
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Desai Law Firm, Aashish Y. Desai and Adrianne De Castro for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, William C. Kwong, Acting Senior Assistant Attorney General, Thomas S. Patterson, Jay C. Russell and Jon S. Allin, Supervising Deputy Attorneys General, and Jill Vander Borght, Deputy Attorney General, for Defendants and Respondents.

    Case Number: No. B269387

    Governmental immunity barred inmate's Bane Act claim arising from failure to protect him from known risk of dangerous disease (Lui, J.)

  • Parrish v. Latham and Watkins

    Publication Date: 2017-08-10
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Trade Secrets
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Date Filed: 2017-08-10
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eagan Avenatti, Michael J. Avenatti, Scott H. Sims; Panish, Shea & Boyle, Brian J. Panish, Adam K. Shea, Kevin R. Boyle; Esner, Chang & Boyer and Stuart B. Esner for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr., Julian W. Poon, Jeremy S. Smith; McKool Smith Hennigan, J. Michael Hennigan and Michael Swartz for Defendants and Respondents.

    Case Number:

    Denial of defendant's summary judgment motion trigger interim adverse judgment rule despite later finding of plaintiffs' bad faith (Kruger, J.)

  • Toeppe v. City of San Diego

    Publication Date: 2017-07-28
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government | Entertainment and Leisure
    Date Filed: 2017-07-27
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Balaban & Spielberger, Daniel K. Balaban, Andrew J. Spielberger; Greene, Broillet & Wheeler, Browne Greene; Esner, Chang & Boyer, Holly N. Boyer, Joseph S. Persoff and Shea S. Murphy for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Mara W. Elliott, City Attorney and George F. Schaefer, Assistant City Attorney, for Defendant and Respondent.

    Case Number: No. D069662

    Trail immunity not applicable to cause of action for failure to maintain non-native tree (Huffman, Acting P.J.)

  • County of San Mateo v. Superior Court (Rowe)

    Publication Date: 2017-07-26
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Real Estate | Government
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government | Entertainment and Leisure
    Date Filed: 2017-07-25
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley, Susan H. Handelman, Dennis J. Ward, Terry Anastassiou for Defendant and Petitioner.
    for defendant: No appearance for Respondent.Law Office of Gerald Clausen, Gerald Clausen; Rouda, Feder, Tietjen & McGuinn, Timothy G. Tietjen for Real Party in Interest.

    Case Number: No. A146077

    Triable issues of fact precluded finding that county park was unimproved for purposes of "natural condition" immunity (Stewart, J.)

  • David v. Hernandez

    Publication Date: 2017-07-25
    Practice Area: Evidence | Motor Vehicle Torts | Personal Injury | Transportation
    Industry: Transportation
    Date Filed: 2017-07-25
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lowthorp Richards McMillan Miller & Templeman, John H. Howard; Ferguson Case Orr Paterson, Wendy C. Lascher and John A. Hribar, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Horvitz & Levy, Lisa Perrochet and Curt Cutting; Law Offices of Mark G. Cunningham, Mark G. Cunningham, for Defendants and Appellants.

    Case Number: 2d Civil No. B270133

    Evidence of accident victim's alleged marijuana impairment properly excluded as speculative (Yegan, J.)