First District affirms dismissal of an intentional-interference-with-expected-inheritance claim against the plaintiff’s brothers, holding the IIEI tort is not available where the plaintiff had an adequate remedy in probate (which she had earlier voluntarily dismissed).
First District grants writ relief in part, holding the school district is immune under Education Code section 44808 for the death damages tied to a student’s off-campus suicide during winter break, but allowing the parents’ survival claim for on-campus harm to proceed.
First District reverses a trial-court order that bound a wife to the date of separation alleged in her amended dissolution petition, holding that allegation was not a judicial admission where the parties had treated a different date as in dispute throughout the litigation.
First District reverses dismissal of a Brown Act suit, holding that plaintiffs adequately alleged the Berkeley City Council violated Government Code section 54957.9 by recessing disrupted meetings and reconvening them in a smaller room instead of clearing the original room and continuing in session
First District affirms judgment for the City and County of San Francisco in a FEHA age-discrimination challenge to the City’s two-formula disability-retirement scheme, finding the City’s pension structure did not violate FEHA.
First District denies habeas relief, holding that CDCR may constitutionally permit only educational merit credits — and not other prison conduct credits — to advance an inmate’s youth-parole eligibility date under Penal Code section 3051.
First District affirms a one-year extension of a mentally disordered offender’s commitment at Coalinga State Hospital, holding the patient forfeited his due-process and equal-protection challenges to the lack of an actuarial risk-assessment tool, and that any instructional error was harmless.