Cases
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Edwards v. Fire Insurance Exchange (Mar. 24, 2008, D050041) 2008 WL 762096 [nonpublished opinion]
Claim for insurance benefits by purported assignee of policy
Emanuele v. Bisno (Mar. 13, 2008, A117913) 2008 WL 668020 [nonpublished opinion]
Nature of partnership; fiduciary duties arising from commercial real estate; compound interest in fraud case
Robins v. Roland (Mar. 7, 2018, B191659) 2008 WL 615865 [nonpublished opinion]
Two members of a purported partnership attempted to withdraw (or “dissociate”) and force the remaining partner to buy them out. The remaining partner disputed the existence of the partnership and refused to honor the dissociations. The trial court ultimately found that the dissociations were valid
Lyons v. Fire Insurance Exchange (2008) 161 Cal.App.4th 880
A former professional baseball player and sometime network announcer made advances in a hotel hallway to a woman who had been flirting with him. He pulled her aside in order to do so. When she sued, he sought a defense under his homeowner’s policy, claiming
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.
Guerrero v. Cordova Associates (Feb. 27, 2008, B194349) 2008 WL 509933 [nonpublished opinion]
Breach of escrow agreement for purchase of real property
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
Segal v. McBride (Feb. 11, 2008, B193092) 2008 WL 353108 [nonpublished opinion]
Medical malpractice: informed consent
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
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
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