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Tuesday, August 15, 2017 Voidable Conveyance » PGA West Residential Association v. Hulven International Cal.App. 4th Dist., Div. 2 (E064270) 8/9/17 Pla...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017 Dedication » Surfrider Foundation v. Martins Beach 1, LLC Cal.App. 1st Dist. (A144268) 8/9/17 The court affirmed the trial...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017 Unlawful Detainer / Collateral Estoppel » Ayala v. Dawson Cal.App. 1st Dist. (A142830) 8/4/17 Plaintiff was evicted from the subject property in...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017 Trustee's Sales » Conroy v. Wells Fargo Bank Cal.App. 3rd Dist. (C078914) 7/28/17 This is another case in which homeowners live...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017 Wrongful Foreclosure » Crossroads Investors v. Federal National Mortgage Association (On Remand) Cal.App. 3rd Dist. (C072585) 7/26/...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017 Partition » Cummings v. Dessel Cal.App. 1st Dist. (A144212) 7/19/17 The court held that the trial court erred when it orde...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017 Bona Fide Purchasers » Deutsche Bank v. Pyle Cal.App. 4th Dist., Div. 1 (D071079) 7/13/17 The court held that a judgment that was ob...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017 926 North Ardmore Ave. v. County of Los Angeles » 926 North Ardmore Ave. v. County of Los Angeles Cal. Supreme Court (S222329) 6/29/17 The...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017 Schep v. Capital One » Schep v. Capital One Cal.App. 2nd Dist. (B269724) 6/26/17 The court held that a t...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 Usury » Hardwick v. Wilcox Cal.App. 1st Dist. (A147944) 5/22/17 The court upheld a judgment in favor of plaintif...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 Deficiency Judgments » Black Sky Capital v. Cobb Cal.App. 4th Dist., Div. 2 (E064482) 6/13/17 Where a lender who holds both a sen...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 Street Dedication » Scher v. Burke Cal. Supreme Court (S230104) 6/15/17 The court upheld the appellate court opinion . Th...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 Trustee's Sales » Berman v. HSBC Bank Cal.App. 3rd Dist. (C081487) 4/11/17 (Cert. for pub. 5/3/17) The court held that...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 Equitable Easements » Hinrichs v. Melton Cal.App. 2nd Dist. (B267505) 5/3/17 The court affirmed the trial court's judgment pro...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 Transfer Fee Covenants » Marina Pacifica Homeowners Association v. Southern California Financial Corp. Cal.App. 2nd Dist. (B270580) 4/...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 Voidable Conveyances / Equitable Subrogation » Nautilus, Inc. v. Yang Cal.App. 4th Dist., Div. 3 (G051956) 4/21/17 Nautilus, Inc. obtained a judgment a...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017 Foreclosure » Dr. Leevil, LLC v. Westlake Health Care Center Where a lease that had recorded before a deed of trust conta...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017 Adverse Possession » Vieira Enterprises v. McCoy The court held that plaintiff was not able to establish termination of an road easemen...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017 Equitable Subrogation » Bank of New York Mellon v. Citibank Defendant refinanced its own home equity line of credit (HELOC) loan and, almo...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 Trustee's Sales » Gillies v. JPMorgan Chase Bank Plaintiff homeowner filed this action, following several other sim...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 Trustee's Sales » Kalnoki v. First American Trustee Servicing Solutions In this action to set aside a trustee's sal...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 Bona Fide Purchasers » OC Interior Services v. Nationstar Mortgage Plaintiff purchased real property knowing about a re...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 Redevelopment Agencies » Cuenca v. Cohen The court held that, while stipulated judgments that required the City to set asi...
Monday, December 19, 2016 Execution Sale » Lee v. Rich The court reversed the trial court's order granting plaintiff-debtor's motion for restitut...
Monday, December 19, 2016 Escrow » Alereza v. Chicago Title Company Chicago Title admitted its employee negligently listed the wrong name...
Monday, December 19, 2016 Trustee's Sales » Mendoza v. JP Morgan Chase Bank In this action to set aside a trustee's deed, a borrower challenged...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 Encroachments / Equitable Easements » Nellie Gail Ranch Owners Association v. McMullin The court upheld an injunction requiring the removal of imp...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016 Guaranties: LSREF 2 Clover Property LLC v. Festival Retail Fund 1 » After a trustee's sale plaintiff lender filed an action against defendant guarantor to recover under a guaranty. The court...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016 Redevelopment Agencies: Covarrubias v. Cohen » In a suit against the Director of the Department of Finance to compel the Department to approve the City's continued payme...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 Joint Tenancy: Walters v. Boosinger » Plaintiff alleged that a deed was void because the grantor was incapacitated (too drunk to know what he was doing) at the...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 Trustee's Sales: Lucioni v. Bank of America » The court upheld the trials court's order sustaining defendant lenders' demurrers in borrower's action seeking an injuncti...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016 Indians: Findleton v. Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians » The court of appeal reversed the trial court's dismissal of this action to enforce arbitration provisions in contract betw...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016 Trustee's Sales: Yhudai v. Impac Funding Corporation » A borrower challenged a securitized trust's ownership of a deed of trust by alleging that the attempts to transfer the dee...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016 Implied Dedication: Friends of the Hastain Trail v. Coldwater Development » In this action to establish a public right of way over a fire road, the court ruled in favor of defendant landowner, holdi...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016 Water Rights: City of Santa Maria v. Adam » In the previous appeal in this action, the court remanded the matter with instructions, directing the trial court to quiet...
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