Cases of Interest

The City of Los Angeles successfully invoked the statutory design immunity defense because the public employee reasonably exercised discretionary authority to approve bollards at the LA Convention Center

The Appellate Court upheld the jury award of $45 million dollars in non-economic damages to the children of the decedent killed by a drunk driver, finding that the award did not shock the conscience because the decedent was a single and loving mother.

The court upheld the validity of a settlement agreement and found Defendants’ appeal of the trial court’s ruling to be frivolous. Thus, the court found Defendants and Defendants’ counsel jointly and severally liable for sanctions.

Evidence of a mother’s drug use and how it relates to her relationship with her deceased son was relevant in determining damages awarded in a wrongful death case

Plaintiff did not show that his violent assault was a foreseeable criminal act and he did not prove that the measures he claimed the shopping center should have taken would have prevented his assault.