First District holds a program-level Environmental Impact Report for a local government’s general plan update need not include site-specific environmental analysis of housing-element inventory sites where no actual housing project has been proposed.
First District holds the automatic bankruptcy stay does not bar appellate proceedings the debtor itself brought, and affirms a defense verdict and attorney-fee award in a $1.5 million loan-related contract and fraud dispute.
First District affirms dismissal of an intentional-interference-with-expected-inheritance claim against the plaintiff’s brothers, holding the IIEI tort is not available where the plaintiff had an adequate remedy in probate (which she had earlier voluntarily dismissed).
First District grants writ relief in part, holding the school district is immune under Education Code section 44808 for the death damages tied to a student’s off-campus suicide during winter break, but allowing the parents’ survival claim for on-campus harm to proceed.
First District reverses a trial-court order that bound a wife to the date of separation alleged in her amended dissolution petition, holding that allegation was not a judicial admission where the parties had treated a different date as in dispute throughout the litigation.
First District reverses dismissal of a Brown Act suit, holding that plaintiffs adequately alleged the Berkeley City Council violated Government Code section 54957.9 by recessing disrupted meetings and reconvening them in a smaller room instead of clearing the original room and continuing in session there.
First District affirms judgment for the City and County of San Francisco in a FEHA age-discrimination challenge to the City’s two-formula disability-retirement scheme, finding the City’s pension structure did not violate FEHA.
First District affirms convictions for possessing an assault weapon and a large-capacity magazine, holding the inventory search of the defendant’s vehicle was lawful and that California’s assault-weapon and magazine bans survive Bruen.
First District denies habeas relief, holding that CDCR may constitutionally permit only educational merit credits — and not other prison conduct credits — to advance an inmate’s youth-parole eligibility date under Penal Code section 3051.
First District affirms a one-year extension of a mentally disordered offender’s commitment at Coalinga State Hospital, holding the patient forfeited his due-process and equal-protection challenges to the lack of an actuarial risk-assessment tool, and that any instructional error was harmless.