In Rancho Cucamonga v. Superior Court (Flowers), ordered published December 3, 2025, the Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division 2 issued a writ reversing a trial court’s denial of summary adjudication of a cause of action. The plaintiff alleged that when he was a minor the director of his school’s childcare program sexually abused him.…
In Agustin v. Golden Empire Transit District, ordered published November 26, 2025, the Fifth District Court of Appeal affirmed summary judgment for the defendant district. The plaintiff fell over while standing up in a moving bus. The footage taken by the video system on the bus showed that the plaintiff had a plastic bag in…
In Taylor v. Los Angeles Unified School District, ordered published July 2, 2025, the Second District Court of Appeal, Division 3 reversed a judgment based on a jury verdict. The defendant district hired a man as a part-time playground worker and supervisor for an afterschool program at an elementary school. In 2019, the district later assigned…
In A.B. v. County of San Diego, published June 26, 2025, the Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division 1 reversed summary judgment for the defendant county, sheriff, and sheriff's deputies. Responding to a report that the plaintiffs' decedent was acting erratically, sheriff's deputies struggled with the decedent, using tasers and blows as he resisted restraint. Eventually…
In Animal Protection and Rescue League, Inc. v. County of Riverside, published June 5, 2025, the Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division 1 affirmed judgment entered after the county's demurrer was sustained and summary judgment was granted to the county. The plaintiff and others demonstrated near a pet store in a shopping mall, protesting the store's…
In E.I. v. El Segundo Unified School District, published June 13, 2025, the Second District Court of Appeal, Division 8 affirmed a jury verdict for the plaintiff. The plaintiff who was a middle-school student who was subjected to extensive online and in-person bullying by two classmates. The plaintiff, her parents, and schoolmates repeatedly reported the bullying…
In County of Nevada v. Superior Court (A.C.), published May 12, 2025, the Third District Court of Appeal issued a writ directing the trial court to grant summary judgment to a sheriff's deputy defendant and his agency. Multiple individuals called 911 about an erratically-acting woman walking along a street with two small children. The defendant sheriff's…
In Tillinghast v. Los Angeles Unified School Dist., published May 5, 2025, the Second District Court of Appeal, Division 8 affirmed the judgment in favor of the plaintiff. The plaintiff's decedent, a middle-school student, passed away in PE class, after jogging, of sudden cardiac arrest. He had an unsuspected heart defect. When the decedent collapsed, teachers…
In Alves v. County of Riverside, published April 29, 2025, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal affirmed a district court's decision declining to grant a renewed motion for judgment as a matter of law after a jury trial. The defendant deputies encountered a bleeding man speaking incoherently and engaged in unusual behavior. The deputies believed the…
In I.C. v. Compton Unified School Dist., ordered published February 6, 2025, the Second District Court of Appeal, Division 8 affirmed a judgment entered after jury trial. The 16-year-old plaintiff and his friend started a fist fight during an art class. Their teacher intervened. The teacher weighed 375 pounds, and had recently been using a…