Sixth District affirms a mandatory preliminary injunction compelling a sitting Santa Clara Valley Water District board member to return two confidential investigation reports she removed from district facilities, holding the claim-and-delivery law did not bar parallel injunctive relief.
The court dismissed a putative class action filed under the Class Action Fairness Act on its own initiative, ruling that minimal diversity was missing because both the named plaintiff and the defendant were California citizens, and the complaint’s bare conclusion that more than $5 million was
After the defendant’s counsel ultimately confirmed that the company had received the complaint on August 1, 2025, the court ruled the September 25, 2025 notice of removal was filed weeks past the 30-day deadline and remanded the case to state court, declining to award sanctions because there w
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).
After defendants ignored a court order to pay an $11,400 attorney-fee award, the magistrate judge certified facts to the district judge supporting civil contempt and recommended a coercive per-diem fine, but recommended denying the plaintiff’s request for additional fees on the contempt motion
After defendants in a private-jet brokerage dispute substantially failed to comply with a court order requiring document production and on-site electronic-storage inspection, the magistrate judge recommended civil contempt and coercive per-diem fines, but declined to recommend the harsher remedies o
In a personal-injury suit by a consumer who lacerated her hand when a Mumm Napa Valley sparkling wine bottle exploded after she used a corkscrew to remove a stuck cork, the court granted summary judgment on the design-defect and negligent-storage claims but allowed the failure-to-warn claims to proc
Second District holds a personal-injury plaintiff’s pretrial settlement offer conditioned on the defendant’s insurer’s consent was a valid Code of Civil Procedure section 998 offer, because insurer consent is a necessary condition of any insured-defendant settlement whether stated
Second District affirms a one-year LPS conservatorship renewal, holding the trial court adequately honored the conservatee’s jury-trial rights where she demanded a jury trial, was given time to consult counsel, and then personally withdrew her demand and confirmed her choice on the record.
Third District affirms denial of validation for Department of Water Resources bond resolutions tied to the long-running Delta Conveyance Project, holding the ‘Delta Program’ is so loosely defined that it cannot qualify as a permitted modification of the Feather River Project unit of the