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 […]
“Every Killer You Kill, Never Kills Again” — Bill Maher.
In 1995, a jury sentenced defendant to death for the rape and murder of his girlfriend’s mother. He now argues that the delay in carrying out his execution amounts to cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment.
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,
Suicide By Cop?
When police with an arrest warrant informed a man he was under arrest, the man sped away, leading police on an 85 to 110 mile-per-hour chase. Twice the man telephoned the police dispatcher to demand the police stop chasing him, telling the dispatcher he was armed and would shoot. Other officers set up spikes at places they thought the man’s car would reach. However, one officer devised a plan to shoot at the man’s car to force the car to stop.
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