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Adam Bros. Farming, Inc. v. County of Santa Barbara (Mar. 4, 2008, B180880) 2008 WL 565025 [nonpublished opinion]

Two family agribusiness entities sued Santa Barbara County under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a supposed civil rights deprivation based on the County’s delineation of a wetland on a large parcel of land that one of the plaintiffs owned and the other wanted to farm.

Nuanes v. Insignia Financial Group, Inc. (Feb. 20, 2008, A115240) 2008 WL 444951 [nonpublished opinion]

This complex derivative/class action was filed in 1998 and, after multiple rounds of mediated settlement negotiations, settled in 2002. The trial court approved the settlement, but an objector—who claimed the case was worth hundreds of millions of dollars more than the settlement consideration—successfully challenged the

2008

Marasco v. Superior Court (Jan. 28, 2008, B198536) 2008 WL 217623 [nonpublished opinion]

GMSR obtained a reversal of a trial court’s order dissolving a highly profitable real estate partnership. The partnership owned a large apartment complex on a ground lease in Marina del Rey, California, valued by plaintiffs at upwards of $200 million. The partners were at an

2008

In re James G. Stull Living Trust (Jan. 28, 2008, B197564) 2008 WL 217622 [nonpublished opinion]

In approving a trust accounting involving a settlor’s trust that divided into two subtrusts upon the settlor’s death—one for the benefit of his children and one for the benefit of their stepmother, the settlor’s surviving spouse—the trial court ruled that all trust administrative expenses must

2008

Moore v. County of Los Angeles (Jan. 24, 2008, B189274) 2008 WL 192294 [nonpublished opinion]

Sexual harassment action – juror misconduct and evidentiary errors

Krishnan v. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Jan. 23, 2008, B194755) 2008 WL 186652 [nonpublished opinion]

Defendants moved for summary judgment on a medical malpractice claim. Plaintiff filed his opposition more than a week late, asking the trial court to excuse the lateness because of an unspecified calendaring error by his counsel’s office. The trial court denied the request and granted

Perrillo v. Picco & Presley (2007) 157 Cal.App.4th 914

Workers’ compensation award is medical expert’s exclusive remedy for medical-legal services that overlap workers’ compensation and civil cases

2007