The central question before us is whether an administrative appeal challenging the
overall legality of a Medi-Cal audit reduction encompasses a later challenge to an alleged
calculation error within that same audit for purposes of determining timeliness of the
calculation error challenge. We find it does not.
Petitioner Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian (Hoag) is an acute care ho... More...   $0 (06-18-2019 - CA)

This is the fifth and presumably final appeal in a lawsuit
which began in August 2014 as a garden variety commercial rent
dispute. In brief, Malibu Hillbillies LLC did not pay rent to its
landlord, appellant United Grand Corporation. United Grand
filed a civil action to recover the overdue rent from Malibu
Hillbillies and its guarantor, respondent Marcie Stollof.
Although a... More...   $0 (06-14-2019 - CA)

After successfully obtaining summary judgment on a lawsuit brought by his
former employer, Antonio Cuevas-Martinez sued the employer and their attorney
(collectively, respondents) for malicious prosecution. Respondents filed an anti-SLAPP
motion to strike the complaint. (Code Civ. Proc., § 425.16, unlabeled statutory citations
refer to this code.)1
The trial court granted the ... More...   $0 (06-08-2019 - CA)

We recount some of the facts from an opinion authored by
Division Five of this District in the second of two related appeals,
which we will call Wertheim III. (Wertheim, LLC v. Currency
Corp. (Aug. 25, 2017, B270926) [nonpub. opn.].)
In 2009, a jury in Department 44 of the superior court
found Currency liable to Wertheim for breach of contract, and
awarded it $38,554.48. Th... More...   $0 (06-07-2019 - CA)

Plaintiff Arkady Berger sought to collect an underlying judgment against
defendant Gary Varum and his company, defendant Telesis Engineers, Inc. (jointly the
Varum defendants). Berger alleged the Varum defendants fraudulently transferred assets
to other defendants in an effort to avoid paying the judgment. While Berger’s
enforcement action against the Varum defendants and defendant... More...   $0 (06-04-2019 - CA)

This case concerns a massive, months-long leak from a
natural gas storage facility located just outside Los Angeles.
According to the allegations before us, the accident severely
harmed the economy of a nearby suburb. We must decide if local
businesses — none of which allege they suffered personal injury
or property damage — may recover in negligence for income lost
because... More...   $0 (06-02-2019 - CA)

Code of Civil Procedure section 9981
creates an incentive
for settlement. It authorizes an award of costs to a party that
makes a pretrial settlement offer when the opponent rejects the
offer and obtains a lesser result at trial. (Martinez v. Brownco
Construction Co. (2013) 56 Cal.4th 1014, 1019.) In 1997, the
Legislature amended the statute to make the same incentive
a... More...   $0 (06-01-2019 - CA)