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GMSR has an enviable record of success on appeal. For your convenience, the firm has provided a simple search tool for guests and clients to search that record.

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Sinaiko Healthcare Consulting, Inc. v. Pacific Healthcare Consultants (2007) 148 Cal.App.4th 390

Terminating discovery sanctions appropriate for untimely discovery response in business tort action

Davis v. Yageo Corp. (9th Cir. 2007) 481 F.3d 661

Preemption of state-law claims by Bankruptcy Code; res judicata; standing

2007

Telenda v. NM Homes One, Inc. (Feb. 27, 2007, B185681) 2007 WL 586804 [nonpublished opinion]

Propriety of summary judgment order; construction of agreements to construct and sell home

Tolwin v. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Feb. 13, 2007, B184632) 2007 WL 451245 [nonpublished opinion]

Jens Koepke and Robin Meadow secured an affirmance in this medical staff privileges case. It arose from the summary suspension and eventual termination of staff privileges for a psychiatrist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, with a peer review process that lasted almost four years. The Court

Said v. Jegan (2007) 146 Cal.App.4th 1375

Standing to disprove paternity under Uniform Parentage Act

2007

Aller v. Board of Regents of University of California (Jan. 10, 2007, B180684) 2007 WL 60779 [nonpublished opinion]

GMSR secured a victorious ending in a 14-year-old case against the UC Regents. The case had earlier been dismissed for failure to prosecute, which dismissal was reversed on a prior appeal. More than five years after the case returned to the trial court, the action

Haran v. City of Riverside (9th Cir. 2007) 216 Fed.Appx. 623

GMSR persuaded the Ninth Circuit to affirm judgment for the City of Riverside in a civil rights action arising from the use of force by a Riverside police officer. The court agreed that the plaintiff’s counsel waived any challenge to the trial court’s rulings on

2007

Gordon v. Richard Maslan & Co., Inc. (Dec. 20, 2006, No. B190946) 2006 WL 3735345 [nonpublished opinion]

GMSR convinced the Court of Appeal that it was improper for the trial court to dismiss GMSR’s client’s complaint for failure to bring to trial within five years. The court ruled that the impracticability exception to the five year statute applied, since the key defendant

2006

Hearst v. Ganzi (2006) 145 Cal.App.4th 1195

Constitutional right of access to courts; liability of trustee for breach of fiduciary duty; immunity of trustee from exposure under will-contest safe harbor provisions