The following summaries are of recent published decisions of the California appellate courts, the Ninth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. The summaries are presented without regard to whether Severson & Werson represented a party in the case.
Though LA's city council adopted a resolution approving deeding a parcel of city-owned real property to plaintiff, the resolution was not a contract and did not bind the city to convey the property. Instead, the city would be bound only if its charter provisions and administrative code provisions governing city contracts were properly followed. Since discretion was involved in the… Read More
Plaintiff, who was not a licensed real estate agent or broker, adequately alleged facts that could give rise to an estoppel to plead the statute of frauds as a defense to her claim for breach of an oral contract to pay her a finder's fee in connection with the sale of real property. Plaintiff alleged that in reliance on the… Read More
Plaintiff performed repair work on a collapse of soil under an street intersection allegedly caused by some fault of the county, but he could not recover the value of the work performed because he could not fit his case within the narrow limits governing estoppel against a government entity. Read More
