Central District of California dismisses every claim in a lemon-law suit over an EGR-cooler defect, holding the Song-Beverly claims are barred by the four-year UCC statute of limitations and that the fraudulent-concealment claim fails Rule 9(b)’s heightened particularity requirement.
Central District of California denies remand of a pro se WeWork dispute, dismisses the contract, conversion, and emotional-distress claims with leave to amend, and dismisses the federal E-SIGN Act and Unruh Act claims permanently for lack of any private right of action and missing intent allegations
Judge Lin dismisses Psynergy Enterprise Developments LLC’s suit against Italian Arabian-horse training center Capecci Arabian Training Center and its principals for lack of personal jurisdiction, holding that the agreement at issue contains no forum-selection clause and the Italian defendants did no
Magistrate Judge Illman grants the County of Del Norte’s motion to dismiss claims arising from a 2022 vehicular accident on a Del Norte road, holding that plaintiffs failed to comply with California Government Claims Act presentation requirements before suing the County and that estoppel does not ex
The court dismissed financial-elder-abuse and Electronic Funds Transfer Act claims by a Social Security beneficiary against Comerica Bank and the operator of the Direct Express debit-card program after $6,815 in fraudulent transactions, ruling that the complaint did not allege the bank had actual kn
The court remanded a Private Attorneys General Act case against Southwest Airlines to state court because the airline failed to plausibly show more than $75,000 was at stake when the plaintiff’s individual share of attorney’s fees and PAGA penalties were properly calculated.
The court denied a motion to dismiss filed by Wooden Bay (doing business as Bronxton) in a trademark-infringement case brought by hat-and-accessories brand Brixton, ruling that the complaint adequately alleged likelihood of confusion based on shared shield-design logo, similar font, overlapping clot
Second District holds an order denying a Penal Code section 1172.1 recall-and-resentencing petition is appealable, and reverses where the superior court applied an incorrect legal standard in deciding whether to resentence the petitioner.
Second District affirms denial of a section 1172.6 murder-resentencing petition based in part on preliminary-hearing hearsay, but remands to give the petitioner 30 days to file an amended petition.
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