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Santa Monica Airport Ass'n vs. City of Santa Monica, 481 F.Supp. 927, Aff. 659 F.2d. 100,

Established the right of municipal airport proprietors to regulate noise at municipal airports. 

 

Regents of the University of California vs. Bradford, 225 Cal. App. 3d. 972 (1990),

a successful appeal, establishing that unlawful aliens may not be granted subsidized tuition at

California institutions of higher Education.

 

Citizens Against UnderGrounding vs. Rancho Palos Verdes, 155 Cal. App. 3d 225 (1984),

successful appeal of Citizens in Rancho Palos Verdes, establishing rights of citizens

to a fair hearing on assessment practices.

 

Allison vs. Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery: (Class Action) Successful settlement for  Gwen Allison and class litigants establishing rights of cemetery owners to prevent use of cemetery property for non-cemetery purposes. 

 

Jaoude vs. British Airways, 228 Cal. App. 3d 1137 (1991), successful appeal establishing rights of persons who are discriminated against because of ancestry to sue for violation of State Civil Rights law, despite claim of Federal Preemption.

 

Williams vs. Horvath, 16 Cal. 3d 834, determined scope of public employee and agency liability in State Court for Federal Civil Rights Liability.

 

Gould vs. Grubb, 14 Cal. 3d 661, determined validity of incumbency bias in ballot listing.

 

Ferrell vs. Santa Monica, 16 Cal. App. 3d 374 (1972), affirmed judgment for City on theory of no liability for injury on the beach where defendant was sleeping in violation of City night time curfew.

 

American Association of Women vs. Board of Trustees of California State University,  31 Cal. App. 4th 702 (1995), rev. denied. Affirmed responsibility of the California State College to obtain unsubsidized non-resident tuition for undocumented aliens. 

 

Khawar vs. Globe International, Inc., 51 Cal. App. 4th 14 (1996), review granted. A Supreme Court libel action against Globe for accusing our client of murdering Robert Kennedy. The jury awarded $1,175,000.00. The Court of Appeal affirmed. The California Supreme Court affirmed.

 

Cotran vs. Rollins Hudig Hall (1996),  Obtained a 1.83 million dollar wrongful termination verdict.  The case was reversed by the California Supreme Court for a new trial. The case was ultimately settled.

 

South Bay Building vs. Riviera Lend-lease, 72 Cal. App. 4th 1111 (1999), provided remedies for lenders defrauded by bid chilling scheme. Thereafter, tried the case and obtained a verdict of $185,000.

 

Mathieu vs. Norrell Corp., 115 Cal. App. 4th 1174, 10 Cal. Rper. 3d 52 (2004), reversed summary judgment in part. Holding that genuine issues of material fact existed regarding employee's claim against temporary employment agency for unlawful retaliation under Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), thereby precluding summary judgment in employee's action against the agency after she complained of sexual harassment at the company where agency had placed her; although employees at the company told employee that she was terminated because of her complaints of sexual harassment, agency's representative failed to fully investigate the matter or recommend that the company retain the employee, and it was disputed as to whether agency attempted to place employee in a comparable position after her discharge by company.

 

Walker vs. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 35 Cal. 4th 15 (2005), represented appellant/petitioner in California Supreme Court, resulting in reversal of Court of Appeals decision. Interpreted appellate rules to allow appeals.

  

In re Marriage of Geraci, 144 Cal. App. 4th 1278 (2006), leading case in family and partnership law, determining that wife was not a partner in Husbands business and reversing the decision of the trial court. 

 

People vs. Akins, 2007 Cal. LEXIS 1909 (Cal. 2007). Review granted and held on the issue of whether the defendant was denied his right to a jury trial, when he was sentenced to a high term punishment, without submitted the issue of enhancement to the jury.  

 

Shin vs. Ahn, 141 Cal. App. 4th 726 (Cal. Ct. App. 2006), review granted 146 P.3d 965 (Cal. 2006) case argued and pending in California  Supreme Court. On June 6, 2007, Richard L. Knickerbocker, Esq., argued the case in the California Supreme Court after prevailing in the trial court and in the Court of Appeal, on the issue of whether a golfer owned a duty of care to a fellow golfer in his or her group to avoid teeing off when the fellow golfer was in the zone of danger.

 

Plus over 40 other reported appellate cases.