LATEST SUMMARIES

CIVIL PROCEDURE, CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE, EVIDENCE, GOVERNMENT LAW, INJURY AND TORT LAW
• Goldstein v. The Superior Court of Los Angeles

CIVIL PROCEDURE, INTERNATIONAL LAW, JUDGMENT ENFORCEMENT
• Manco Contracting Co. v. Bezdikian

LATEST SUMMARIES

CIVIL PROCEDURE, CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE, EVIDENCE, GOVERNMENT LAW, INJURY AND TORT LAW
Goldstein v. The Superior Court of Los Angeles, No. S155944
In a claim alleging that defendants wrongfully obtained plaintiff's conviction for murder based on their pattern and practice of misusing the testimony of jailhouse informants, grant of plaintiff's Penal Code section 924.2 petition seeking access to grand jury materials is reversed where California courts do not have a broad inherent power to order disclosure of grand jury materials to private litigants. Read more in DOC...   Read more in PDF...

CIVIL PROCEDURE, INTERNATIONAL LAW, JUDGMENT ENFORCEMENT
Manco Contracting Co. v. Bezdikian, No. S154076
In an action by a Qatari company seeking to domesticate its Qatari judgment against defendant, reversal of judgment against defendant is affirmed where: 1) if a foreign nation's rule is that judgments are final even though an appeal is pending, a judgment may be recognized in California despite an appeal; and 2) if the foreign nation's rule is that judgments are not final while an appeal is pending, a judgment on appeal cannot be recognized in California. Read more in DOC...   Read more in PDF...