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2009

McCullock v. Los Angeles County Sheriff (9th Cir. 2009) 320 Fed.Appx. 814

Civil rights action based on denial of medication to prisoner

In re Episcopal Church Cases (2009) 45 Cal.4th 467

Property rights of local church leaving larger denomination

Blanks v. Seyfarth Shaw LLP (2009) 171 Cal.App.4th 336

Reversing $30 million legal malpractice judgment because of error in instructing on Talent Agencies Act

Van de Kamp v. Goldstein (2009) 555 U.S. 335

Prosecutorial immunity applies to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims concerning the manner in which the prosecutor’s office implemented policies and training for jailhouse informants

2009

Humphries v. Los Angeles County (9th Cir. 2009) 554 F.3d 1170

Due process claim based on list of suspected child abusers maintained by California Department of Justice

Compulink Management Center, Inc. v. St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Co. (2008) 169 Cal.App.4th 289

Insured must arbitrate amount of defense fees owed where defense eventually provided even if claiming bad faith delay

2008

Myles v. County of Los Angeles (Dec. 10, 2008, B198174) 2008 WL 5159892 [nonpublished opinion]

GMSR obtained a decision affirming a nonsuit for the defendant County and its employees. The plaintiff claimed that two deputy sheriffs shot him unlawfully, but the Court of Appeal agreed with the trial court that he failed to produce sufficient evidence identifying the defendant-deputies. On

Larner v. Los Angeles Doctors Hospital Associates, LP (2008) 168 Cal.App.4th 1291

Plaintiff’s settlement mooted her appeal from order denying class certification in wage and hour suit

Burlington Coat Factory of Cal. v. Bella Terra Associates, LLC (Nov. 26, 2008, G039699) 2008 WL 5058624 [nonpublished opinion]

GMSR obtained a reversal of a judgment against a commercial tenant in a dispute over the interpretation of a real estate tax provision in the tenant’s lease. The trial court had found the provision unambiguous in requiring the tenant to pay a multiple of future

City of Riverside v. Superior Court (Nov. 21, 2008, E046794) 2008 WL 4958685 [nonpublished opinion]

Plaintiff was injured when she fell on a street in Riverside County. She presented a timely claim to the wrong public entity but the trial court granted relief from the Government Tort Claims filing deadline with respect to the County. The Court of Appeal issued