This qui tam action, brought under the False Claims Act,
comes to us on interlocutory appeal from the district court’s
denial of summary judgment so that we can settle questions
of law posed in the wake of Universal Health Services, Inc.
v. United States ex rel. Escobar, 136 S. Ct. 1989 (2016). We
affirm.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY1
Defendant Stephens Institute, doi

SI 59 LLC (appellant) appeals from a judgment of dismissal
following a demurrer to its Second Amended Complaint (SAC) by
Variel Warner Ventures, LLC (Variel Warner), Variel Builders,
LLC, (Variel Builders), Verdugo Management & Investment, Inc.
(Verdugo), Troxler Residential Ventures XIX, LLC (Troxler), and
Troxler Venture Partners, Inc. (Troxler Venture) (collectively
resp

In this legal malpractice action, appellant Robert Genisman alleges his former
attorneys, Hopkins Carley and Mark Heyl (collectively respondents), were negligent in
their representation of him in connection with the 2005 sale of his ownership interest in
two private companies (the Transaction). Genisman alleges the Transaction initially was
structured as a buyout and respondents re

“The First Amendment guarantees to a religious institution the right to decide
matters affecting its ministers’ employment, free from the scrutiny and second-guessing
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of the civil courts.” (Schmoll v. Chapman University (1999) 70 Cal.App.4th 1434, 1436
(Schmoll).) The so-called ministerial exception is “a ‘nonstatutory, constitutionally
compelled’ exception to federal civil

In their first appeal (case No. H041870), both plaintiff Manny Villanueva,
individually and as class representative, and defendant Fidelity National Title Company
(Fidelity) appeal from a judgment following a bench trial in this class action lawsuit
alleging violations of the Unfair Competition Law (UCL) (Bus. & Prof. Code, §§ 17200
et seq.). Villanueva and the class (jointly Plain

“If this case is an example, the term ‘civil procedure’ is an oxymoron.” Green v. GTE Cal., Inc., 34 Cal. Rptr. 2d 517, 518 (Cal. Ct. App. 1994). It comes before us for a second time, more than five years after Results Staffing, Incorporated (“RSI”), fired Jose Hernandez for failing to report to work. Hernandez appeals the interlocutory order granting RSI’s Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) mo

In their first appeal (case No. H041870), both plaintiff Manny Villanueva,
individually and as class representative, and defendant Fidelity National Title Company
(Fidelity) appeal from a judgment following a bench trial in this class action lawsuit
alleging violations of the Unfair Competition Law (UCL) (Bus. & Prof. Code, §§ 17200
et seq.). Villanueva and the class (jointly Plain

Trans fat has become increasingly recognized as a
dangerous substance and a leading cause of numerous serious
ailments, including heart disease and diabetes. Food and Drug
Administration (“FDA”) regulations govern the information
reported within a food product’s Nutrition Facts Panel on the
product’s label.1 As for trans fat, FDA regulations provided,
at all relevant times,

In their first appeal (case No. H041870), both plaintiff Manny Villanueva,
individually and as class representative, and defendant Fidelity National Title Company
(Fidelity) appeal from a judgment following a bench trial in this class action lawsuit
alleging violations of the Unfair Competition Law (UCL) (Bus. & Prof. Code, §§ 17200
et seq.). Villanueva and the class (jointly Plain

In this wrongful foreclosure case, plaintiffs Amy Arlene Turner and Joseph Zeleny
sought damages from defendant Seterus, Inc. (Seterus) on the theory that Seterus had
“frustrated [their] lawful attempt, pursuant to [Civil] Code [section] 2924c, to cure their
default more than five days prior to the noticed foreclosure sale.” The trial court
sustained Seterus’s demurrer to their thi