Morehart v. County of Santa Barbara

Decided May 12, 1994. Malcolm Millar Lucas wrote the opinion for the court.

872 P.2d 143 · Cited 311 times

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• People Ex Rel. Deukmejian v. County of Mendocino · 683 P.2d 1150
• Hill v. City of Manhattan Beach · 491 P.2d 369
• Day v. Papadakis · 231 Cal. App. 3d 503
• Olson v. Cory · 673 P.2d 720
• Garat v. City of Riverside · 2 Cal. App. 4th 259
• In Re Hubbard · 62 Cal. 2d 119
• U. S. Financial v. Sullivan · 37 Cal. App. 3d 5
• IT Corp. v. Solano County Board of Supervisors · 820 P.2d 1023
• Bank of the Orient v. Town of Tiburon · 220 Cal. App. 3d 992
• Sherwin-Williams Co. v. City of Los Angeles · 844 P.2d 534
• Kinoshita v. Horio · 186 Cal. App. 3d 959
• DeGrandchamp v. Texaco, Inc. · 100 Cal. App. 3d 424
• Vetter v. Zoning Board of Appeal of Attleboro · 116 N.E.2d 277
• National Automobile & Casualty Insurance v. Frankel · 203 Cal. App. 3d 830
• James Talcott, Inc. v. Short · 100 Cal. App. 3d 504
• Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. General Electric Co. · 446 U.S. 1
• Citizens of Goleta Valley v. Board of Supervisors · 801 P.2d 1161
• Fisher v. City of Berkeley · 693 P.2d 261
• Mooney v. Pickett · 483 P.2d 1231
• Galvan v. Superior Court · 70 Cal. 2d 851
• Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Fales · 505 P.2d 213
• Western Oil & Gas Ass'n v. Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District · 777 P.2d 157
• Candid Enterprises, Inc. v. Grossmont Union High School District · 705 P.2d 876
• Lancaster v. Municipal Court · 494 P.2d 681

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• Cobb v. University of Southern California · 32 Cal. App. 4th 798
• Angell v. Superior Court · 86 Cal. Rptr. 2d 657
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• Daugherty v. City & Cnty. of S.F. · 234 Cal. Rptr. 3d 773
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