A high school student took a swing on a rope swing attached to a tree in a county park. The rope broke and the boy was seriously injured when he hit debris below, which debris included cut-down tree limbs and brush left by county maintenance workers. Afterward, an expert opined the rope was damaged from exposure to the sun for over three months.
“The Primary Purpose . . . Was To Ruin [Former Husband And His New Wife] Financially.” The Trial Court.
The trial court ordered a former wife to pay her former husband $151,967 and his new wife $124,352 both as sanctions under Family Code section 271 and to pay for their attorney fees pursuant to Family Code section 2030. The trial court described the proceedings as a “morass of litigation, the primary purpose of which was to ruin [former husband and his new wife] financially.”
“Governments Have Monopolies On Certain Things, Like Eminent Domain And Deadly Force,” P.J. O’Rourke.
A public school sits next to a large piece of private property in a downtown area. The school district requested the trial court to grant it a right to enter the private property to conduct certain investigations and environmental testing under Eminent Domain law, [Code of Civil Procedure section 1245.010, et seq.], with an eye toward potentially expanding the existing school and constructing other school facilities.
Motion For Summary Judgment Decided On Issue Not Briefed.
The appellate court decided a motion for summary judgment in favor of the moving party on an issue not briefed by the parties nor considered by the trial court.
“It Has Nothing To Do With Satan, Mama. It’s Me,” Carrie White character in film “Carrie.”
While exiting a haunted house attraction, a patron was confronted by a final scare known as the “Carrie” effect—so named because, like the horror film Carrie, patrons are led to believe the attraction is over, only to be met by one more extreme fright.
“The Habeas Corpus Secures Every Man, Alien Or Citizen, Against Everything Which Is Not Law, Whatever Shape It May Assume.” Thomas Jefferson.
After the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation [CDCR] “validated” a Pelican Bay inmate to be a gang associate of the Mexican Mafia, the inmate challenged the decision by filing a habeas corpus petition.
“I Don’t Know Why The Girl Had Me Say Those Things. I Was Baited,” Donald Sterling to Anderson Cooper.
A probate court concluded a husband was properly removed as a trustee of a family trust, and that the wife had authority to unilaterally bind the family trust by executing an agreement to see a basketball team owned by the family trust. The court instructed the wife to complete the sale.
Miranda Rights Eroded Again: Unusual Case All The Way Around.
Joseph H., age 10, woke up early one morning and shot his father in the head as he slept on the sofa. Joseph was a difficult child. From the time he was three years old, his paternal grandmother could not babysit him because she could not control his outbursts.
Condition Of Probation For Juvenile Overbroad.
A juvenile ward of the court admitted he committed second-degree burglary and was placed on probation. On appeal, he challenged an electronic search condition requiring him to “submit…any electronics and passwords under [his] control to search by Probation Officer or peace officer with or without a search warrant.” The Court of Appeal found the condition […]
Informed Exercise Of Discretion In Request To Renew Restraining Order.
Out of the blue, a woman started receiving letters saying strange and scary things, from a man she knew in high school decades earlier. She requested a restraining order under Code of Civil Procedure section 527.6, and the court issued the order. At a 2014 hearing wherein the woman requested the court to renew the order,
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