12 Cited authorities

  1. DKN Holdings LLC v. Faerber

    61 Cal.4th 813 (Cal. 2015)   Cited 589 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "issue preclusion cannot be used to prohibit [a party] from seeking redress from a different obligor just because it has prevailed against a different party in the first suit"
  2. Boeken v. Philip Morris USA, Inc.

    48 Cal.4th 788 (Cal. 2010)   Cited 561 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that for res judicata purposes, "a dismissal with prejudice is the equivalent of a final judgment on the merits, barring the entire cause of action"
  3. People ex rel. Lockyer v. Shamrock Foods Co.

    24 Cal.4th 415 (Cal. 2000)   Cited 569 times

    S082325 Filed November 6, 2000 Appeal from Superior Court, San Diego County, No. 702204, Robert J. O'Neill, Judge, Ct.App. 4/1 D031041, Review Granted, 73 Cal.App.4th 1396. DeCuir Somach, Somach, Simmons Dunn, Michael E. Vergara; Blodgett, Makechnie Vetne, John H. Vetne; Landels Ripley Diamond, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes Lerach and Sanford Svetcov for Defendant and Appellant. Daniel E. Lungren and Bill Lockyer, Attorneys General, George Williamson, Roderick E. Walston and Richard M. Frank, Chief

  4. Committee on Children's Television, Inc. v. General Foods Corp.

    35 Cal.3d 197 (Cal. 1983)   Cited 716 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that no fiduciary relationship existed between advertisers of cereal and consumers because "it is unnecessary to call upon the law of fiduciary relationships to perform a function for which it was not designed and is largely unsuited"
  5. People v. Woodell

    17 Cal.4th 448 (Cal. 1998)   Cited 380 times
    Holding that the record of conviction includes not only the trial court record but also an appellate opinion, at least for nonhearsay purposes
  6. Align Technology, Inc. v. Tran

    179 Cal.App.4th 949 (Cal. Ct. App. 2009)   Cited 79 times
    Holding "legislative purpose of former section 439, the predecessor of section 426.30 . . . was to provide for the settlement, in a single action, of all conflicting claims between the parties arising out of the same transaction" and to "avoid a multiplicity of actions"
  7. Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco v. Countrywide Financial Corp.

    214 Cal.App.4th 1520 (Cal. Ct. App. 2013)   Cited 53 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Discussing how res judicata bars a cause of action that was or could have been litigated in a prior proceeding
  8. George v. Auto. Club of South. California

    201 Cal.App.4th 1112 (Cal. Ct. App. 2011)   Cited 47 times
    Applying rule, but finding no ambiguity
  9. Piccinini v. California Emergency Management Agency

    226 Cal.App.4th 685 (Cal. Ct. App. 2014)   Cited 6 times   1 Legal Analyses

    A137275 05-27-2014 Joseph PICCININI, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. CALIFORNIA EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY et al., Defendants and Respondents. Scott Adrian Lewis and Deborah S. Bull, Perry, Johnson, Anderson, Miller, & Moskowitz, Santa Rosa, for Appellant. Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Alicia Fowler, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Miguel A. Neri, Fiel D. Tigno, Supervising Deputy Attorneys General, Christopher M. Young, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent. Siggins, J. Scott Adrian Lewis

  10. Trustees of Capital Wholesale v. Shearson Lehman

    221 Cal.App.3d 617 (Cal. Ct. App. 1990)   Cited 29 times
    Dismissing claim for breach of the implied covenant without leave to amend where plaintiff failed to allege facts to support such claim