California Infant Law
United States of America v. Tamara Yvonne Motley
Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with <br> billing Medicare more than $24 million by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary durable medical equipment – mostly power wheelchairs (PWC) – and PWC repairs, many of which were never performed.<br> <br> Tamara Yvonne Motley, 55, a.k.a. "Tamara Ogembe,†of Redondo Beach, ... More...
$0 (12-07-2023 - CA)The People v. William Oliver Richey
Riverside, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with voluntary manslaughter.<br> <br> <br> Infant and victim H.R. died of abusive head trauma suffered at the hands of his father, William Oliver Richey, the defendant, who maintained the child had accidentally drowned in a baby bath, only to be dropped in the shower as defendant attempted to revive him. Defendant was con... More...
$0 (01-10-2020 - CA)The People v. Sonia Hermosillo
Santa Ana, CA: Criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with first-degree murder for dropping her infant son to his death from a Children's Hospital of Orange County parking structure.<br> <br> Defendant pled insanity.... More...
$0 (09-13-2021 - CA)United States of America v. Carlos Hernandez, a/k/a “Rider†or “Creeperâ€
Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to violate civil rights, violent crime in aid of racketeering, criminal interference with fair housing rights, use of fire in the commission of a federal felony, and carrying a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence.<br> <br> Carlos Hernandez, 36, aka "Rider†or "Creeper,†was with f... More...
$0 (03-23-2021 - CA)The People of the State of California v. Chelsea Annmarie Stiles
<center><br> <img width="400" src="http://www.morelawtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Stiles-Chelsea-AnnMarie_.jpg"><br> </center><br> <br> San Luis Obispo, California gross vehicular manslaughter criminal defense lawyer represented defendant, Chelsea Annmarie Stiles, age 27, who was charged with gross vehicular manslaughter for causing an accident that killed a San Luis Obispo man in 2019. She w... More...
$0 (12-14-2020 - CA)In re S.S., a Person Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law, Riverside County Department of Social Services v. T.S.
This appeal poses the question whether a juvenile court may, consistent with due<br> process and the dependency statutes, terminate the parental rights of a noncustodial father<br> who seeks custody even though the state detained and removed the child based only on<br> allegations against mother and the court found giving father custody would be<br> detrimental based on problems arising from his p... More...
$0 (10-04-2020 - CA)Stephanie Koussaya v. City of Stockton
Stockton, CA - Criminal Defense, Bank Robbery<br> <br> <center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.morelawtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Stockton_CA.jpg"><br> </center><br> <br> Stephanie Koussaya was taken hostage, along with two other women, by three<br> armed bank robbers, Alex Martinez, Jaime Ramos, and Gilbert Renteria, Jr. Used as<br> human shields in order to facilitate the robbers’ ... More...
$0 (09-22-2020 - CA)Delores Tarin v. Rochelle Lind
Plaintiff and appellant Dolores Tarin (Dolores) appeals<br> from the judgment after the trial court granted three judgments<br> on the pleadings in favor of defendants and respondents Rochelle<br> Lind (Rochelle) and Jesse Tarin (Jesse)1 (collectively,<br> defendants), and Dolores dismissed her remaining claims.<br> Dolores alleged that defendants interfered in Dolores’s<br> relationship with he... More...
$0 (04-04-2020 - CA)Kevin Bom v. Superior Court of Los Angeles, The People, Real Party in Interest
Petitioners Kevin Bom, Stefanie Rodriguez, Gregory<br> Merritt, and Patricia Clement were social workers with the<br> Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services<br> (DCFS). In 2012 and 2013, petitioners provided emergency<br> and family maintenance services to seven-year-old Gabriel F.<br> (Gabriel), and members of his family. Approximately six weeks<br> after DCFS closed its ca... More...
$0 (01-11-2020 - CA)Donald Wilson v. County of San Joaquin
Donald Wilson entered a plea of no contest on a charge of felony child abuse in<br> connection with events culminating in the death on his infant son. He and his wife<br> (plaintiffs) then sued several individuals and entities who undertook to provide lifesaving <br> 2<br> services for the infant, asserting causes of action for medical malpractice, professional<br> negligence, and intentional infl... More...
$0 (07-31-2019 - CA)William B. Look, Jr. v. Bela Penovatz
Appellant William Look, Jr. appeals an order of the trial court denying his request<br> for reimbursement under Family Code section 39501 for funds he expended while<br> Respondent Bela Penovatz’s then-minor son lived in Look’s household. During the<br> relevant period, Penovatz (the child’s father) paid child support, pursuant to a court order,<br> to the child’s mother, who cohabitated w... More...
$0 (04-29-2019 - CA)Jacqueline Stennett etc. v. Danae Marie Miller
This case presents two issues: does the nonmarital biological child of an<br> absentee father who never openly held her out as his own have standing under Code of<br> Civil Procedure section 377.60 (section 377.60) to sue for his wrongful death if she failed<br> to obtain a court order declaring paternity during his lifetime?<br> 1<br> If she does not have<br> standing, does section 377.60 violat... More...
$0 (04-13-2019 - CA)William B. Look, Jr. v. Bela Penovatz
<center><br> <h1><br> <p style="border:3px; border-style:solid; border-color:#FF0000; padding: 0em;"><br> <a href="http://www.callmorelaw.com" target="_new">MoreLaw Virtual Receptionists</a><br> <font><br> </h1><br> </center><br> Appellant William Look, Jr. appeals an order of the trial court denying his request<br> for reimbursement under Family Code section 39501 for funds he expended while<br> ... More...
$0 (04-09-2019 - CA)Skylar Ward v. Tilly's, Inc.
This appeal, which follows an order sustaining a demurrer<br> without leave to amend, concerns the practice of on-call<br> scheduling. As alleged, on-call scheduling works this way:<br> Employees are assigned on-call shifts, but are not told until they<br> call in two hours before their shifts start whether they should<br> actually come in to work. If they are told to come in, they are<br> paid fo... More...
$0 (02-06-2019 - CA)Dominique Lopez, a Minor, etc. v. Sony Electronics, Inc.
When a child is allegedly harmed by in utero exposure to hazardous<br> chemicals, which statute of limitations applies: that for toxic exposure claims<br> (Code Civ. Proc., § 340.8, subd. (a)),<br> 1 or that for prenatal injuries (§ 340.4)? The<br> answer determines the viability of this lawsuit. Because the toxic exposure statute<br> was more recently enacted, and its language plainly encompass... More...
$0 (07-08-2018 - CA)Mateel Environmental Justice Foundation v. Office of Environmental Health Harzard Asse
In 1989, the predecessor to respondent Office of Environmental Health Hazard<br> Assessment (OEHHA), the lead agency charged with implementing California’s Safe<br> Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act (Proposition 65) (Health & Saf. Code,<br> § 25249.5 et seq.), adopted a regulation setting a “maximum allowable dose level” or<br> MADL for lead as a reproductive toxicant. (Cal. Code Reg... More...
$0 (06-08-2018 - CA)Naruto v. David John Slater
We must determine whether a monkey may sue humans,<br> corporations, and companies for damages and injunctive<br> relief arising from claims of copyright infringement. Our<br> court’s precedent requires us to conclude that the monkey’s<br> claim has standing under Article III of the United States<br> Constitution. Nonetheless, we conclude that this<br> monkey—and all animals, since they are ... More...
$0 (04-30-2018 - CA)Juan Gonzales v. Wayne Bill Lew
Code of Civil Procedure section 9981 is a cost-shifting<br> statute designed to encourage parties to settle their lawsuits<br> prior to trial by punishing a party that refuses a reasonable<br> settlement offer. In order to trigger section 998, a settlement offer<br> must be clear, in that it must allow the party receiving the offer<br> to evaluate whether the party making the offer is likely to ob... More...
$0 (02-03-2018 - CA)W.S. v. S.T.
In 2014, appellant W.S. filed a petition to establish a parental relationship with his<br> daughter (daughter). W.S. alleged he was daughter’s biological father. He claimed he<br> had a relationship with S.T., daughter’s mother, while she was married to her husband,<br> Martin T. W.S. requested joint legal and physical custody, equal time visitation, and<br> mediation to work out a parenting p... More...
$0 (02-02-2018 - CA)T.H., a Minor, etc. v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
Under California law, a brand-name drug manufacturer has a duty to warn<br> of known or reasonably knowable adverse effects arising from an individual’s use<br> of its drug. (See Stevens v. Parke, Davis & Co. (1973) 9 Cal.3d 51, 65.) In this<br> case, we examine whether — and if so, under what circumstances — a brandname<br> drug manufacturer may be sued under a theory of “warning label”... More...
$0 (12-25-2017 - CA)Admiral Insurance Company v. The Superior Court of San Diego County, Respondent, A Perfect Match, Inc., Real Party in Interest
This is a case about the meaning of a professional liability insurance policy. The<br> policy in question was issued by petitioner Admiral Insurance Company (Admiral) to the<br> real party in interest, A Perfect Match, Incorporated (Perfect Match), a company that<br> "match[es] surrogates and egg donors with infertile families." On the first page of the<br> policy Admiral promised to provide cover... More...
$0 (12-12-2017 - CA)Jennifer S. v. The Superior Court of San Francisco County, San Francisco Human Services Agency
In this consolidated writ proceeding, Jennifer S. (mother) and Kenneth S.<br> (father) seek extraordinary relief from the juvenile court order denying them both<br> reunification services with respect to their infant daughter, K.S. (born January 2017), and<br> setting a permanency planning hearing pursuant to section 366.26 of the Welfare and<br> Institutions Code.1<br> At the June 2017 dispositi... More...
$0 (10-04-2017 - CA)United States of America v. Michael William Lutts
San Diego, CA- Pediatric Nurse Sentenced to 80 Years for Sexual Exploitation of Children in His Care<br> <br> Michael William Lutts, a 52-year-old foster parent and pediatric nurse, was sentenced in federal court to the statutory maximum 80 years in prison for sexually exploiting a two-month-old premature boy and an 11-month-old girl who had been placed in his care in 2014.<br> <br> During the sen... More...
$0 (12-07-2015 - CA)Diamond v. Reshko
The accident that gave rise to this litigation occurred shortly before 7:00 p.m. on January 4, 2011, at the intersection of California and Cherry Streets in San Francisco. That segment of California Street consists of four driving lanes, two facing east and two west, with outside parking lanes on each side. The intersection at California and Cherry is controlled by traffic lights.<br> San Franc... More...
$0 (09-19-2015 - CA)Soto v. BorgWarner Morse TEC
In December 2009, Medina was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a type of cancer usually caused by exposure to asbestos. He filed a personal injury complaint against numerous defendants in March 2010, alleging causes of action for negligence, breach of implied warranty, strict products liability, fraud/failure to warn, and conspiracy to defraud/failure to warn. Medina preserved his testimony in video-... More...
$0 (08-21-2015 - CA)Diamond v. Reshko
<br> The accident that gave rise to this litigation occurred shortly before 7:00 p.m. on January 4, 2011, at the intersection of California and Cherry Streets in San Francisco. That segment of California Street consists of four driving lanes, two facing east and two west, with outside parking lanes on each side. The intersection at California and Cherry is controlled by traffic lights.<br> San... More...
$0 (08-20-2015 - CA)Soto v. BorgWarner Morse
Secundino Medina died of asbestos-related mesothelioma. Medina’s estate, his daughters Patricia Soto, Yolanda Isaak, and Leticia Medina, and his great-grandson Eli Canett asserted claims for negligence, strict liability, and wrongful death against a host of defendants, alleging that their asbestos-laden products contributed to Medina’s mesothelioma. Their claims against defendant BorgWarner ... More...
$0 (08-05-2015 - CA)SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES v. L.M.,
Appellant L.M. (father) is the biological father of A.J. (child), who was six years old on May 13, 2014, the date of the challenged order. Father appeals from the juvenile court’s order at the Welfare and Institutions Code, section 366.26 permanency planning hearing denying him supervised visitation with the child based on a finding of detriment. As discussed below, while substantial evidence... More...
$0 (08-04-2015 - ca)The People v. Lisa Sedillo
Defendant Lisa Sedillo appeals her March 2013 conviction of one count of second degree murder (Pen. Code, § 187, subd. (a)),1 five counts of attempted murder (§§ 664, 187, subd. (a)), and one count of shooting at an inhabited dwelling (§ 246). The convictions arise out of a gang-related shooting on December 1, 1992 that occurred outside a home in Long Beach. Francisco Moreno, the actua... More...
$0 (04-08-2015 - CA)The People v. Richard Ray Cisneros
Richard Ray Cisneros appeals from the judgment entered following his conviction by a jury of two counts of making a criminal threat against Ebony Pitts. Cisneros contends the trial court erred in denying his Batson/Wheeler1 motions alleging the prosecutor had discriminated against men in exercising peremptory challenges during jury selection.2 We reverse.<br> FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND<br> ... More...
$0 (02-09-2015 - CA)United States of America v. Michael William Lutts
SAN DIEGO, CA – Michael William Lutts, a 50-year-old foster parent and pediatric nurse, pleaded guilty in federal court to sexually exploiting a two-month-old premature boy and an 11-month-old girl who had been placed in his care last summer.<br> <br> According to his plea agreement, Lutts admitted to 15 instances in July and August in which he photographed and videotaped the babies in sex... More...
$0 (01-29-2015 - CA)Joseph M. Ocequeda v. Cherisse Perreira
The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA),<br> adopted by California as Family Code section 3400 et seq., prescribes when a state court<br> has jurisdiction to make an initial custody determination. Family Code section 3402,<br> subdivision (g) provides with respect to a child less than six months of age that<br> jurisdiction rests in the state in which the child "livedâ... More...
$0 (01-05-2015 - CA)Adoption of Baby Boy W., a minor
A biological father who does not qualify as a presumed father under Family Code section 76111 generally does not have statutory standing to block the adoption of his child unless he proves that it is in the child's best interests that the adoption not proceed. (Adoption of Kelsey S. (1992) 1 Cal.4th 816 (Kelsey S.); Adoption of Michael H. (1995) 10 Cal.4th 1043, 1052 (Michael H.).) Under Kelsey S.... More...
$0 (12-15-2014 - CA)Nan Lawrence v. La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, Inc.
When he was five years old, plaintiff Michael Lawrence fell from a window in his family's second story hotel room at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club and suffered serious head and brain injuries. Michael's parents, Nan Lawrence and Jeff Lawrence, filed a first amended complaint against La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, Inc. and La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club Partners, L.P. (defendants) seeking dam... More...
$0 (10-31-2014 - CA)The People v. Kelvyn Rondell Banks
Defendant Kelvyn Rondell Banks was convicted by a jury in 1998 of two counts of first degree murder (Pen. Code, § 187; all further statutory references are to the Penal Code unless otherwise indicated), one count of attempted murder (§§ 187, subd. (a), 664), one count of forcible rape (§ 261, subd. (a)(2)), one count of forcible oral copulation (§ 288a, subd. (c)), one count of firs... More...
$0 (08-14-2014 - CA)Meera Upasani v. State Farm General Insurance Company
Meera Upasani and Mohan Upasani, policyholders of State Farm General Insurance Company and State Farm Fire and Casualty Company (collectively, State Farm), were sued for conspiring to aid a mother in abducting her son from his father. State Farm denied the Upasanis' tender of the defense of that action because abduction claims were not covered claims under the terms of the State Farm policies. The... More...
$0 (06-26-2014 - CA)Conchita Franco Serri v. Santa Clara University
Plaintiff and appellant Conchita Franco Serri brought this action against her former employer (defendant and respondent Santa Clara University (the University)) and other individually named defendants after the University terminated her employment. Serri had worked as the University's Director of Affirmative Action since 1992. The University terminated her employment in 2007 because she failed to ... More...
$0 (05-28-2014 - CA)United States of America v. Robert Dale Schrader
LOS ANGELES, CA – An Antelope Valley man pleaded guilty this morning to a federal charge of producing child pornography, admitted that he used his camera phone to make videos while he molested a 3-month-old relative.<br> <br> Robert Dale Schrader, 33, of Littlerock, pleaded guilty to charge before United States District Judge Gary A. Feess, who scheduled a sentencing hearing for August 18.<... More...
$0 (05-21-2014 - CA)In re J.C., a Person Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law.
J.C.'s mother M.C. (Mother) appeals from the termination of her parental rights.1 On appeal, she maintains the court erred in denying her Welfare and Institutions Code section 388 modification petition (hereafter 388 petition)2 and should have applied the "parental benefit exception†to adoption. (§ 366.26, subd. (c)(1)(B)(i).) We conclude both contentions lack merit and we affirm the ord... More...
$0 (05-22-2014 - CA)In re I.R. et al., Persons Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law.
The minors appeal from orders of the juvenile court placing them in long-term foster care after finding both the parental beneficial relationship and the sibling exceptions to the preference for adoption applied. (Welf. & Inst. Code, §§ 366.26, 395.)1<br><br>1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.<br><br>2<br><br>We granted appellants' application to sta... More...
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