Cases

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Rosenthal v. City of Oakland (Aug. 27, 2020, A156881) 2020 WL 5051440 [nonpublished opinion]

Court of Appeal affirmed grants for summary judgment for GMSR’s private landowner client

8451 Melrose Property, LLC v. Akhtarzad (May 28, 2020, B288963) 2020 WL 2765575 [nonpublished opinion]

Plaintiff sued Defendant for breach of a commercial lease.  Defendant argued the lease was unenforceable because it required he occupy an unlawful building and use it for an illegal purpose.  His defense was premised on a theory that a portion of the building’s second story

Gamerberg v. 3000 E. 11th St., LLC (2020) 44 Cal.App.5th 424

Court of Appeal reverses judgment against GMSR’s client, and holds good faith purchasers are not bound by irrevocable licenses

Corona v. City of Riverside (Oct. 22, 2019, D075558) 2019 WL 5387287 [nonpublished opinion]

Court of Appeal affirms judgment of nonsuit in favor of GMSR’s client

Millennium-Diamond Road Partners, LLC v. Diamond Bar Country Estates Association (Sept. 25, 2019, B285539) 2019 WL 4635158 [nonpublished opinion]

Court of Appeal affirms damages and fee awards in favor of real estate developers and rejects neighboring homeowners association’s million-dollar counterclaim

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Etelaei v. First General Bank (June 18, 2019, B287186) 2019 WL 2511405 [nonpublished opinion]

GMSR’s client faced loss of her home on account of an unauthorized home equity loan from which she received nothing. Judgment for the lender reversed

Colyear v. Rolling Hills Community Assn. of Rancho Palos Verdes (Apr. 23, 2018, B278198) 2018 WL 1905035 [nonpublished opinion]

GMSR succeeds in reviving its client’s lawsuit and reversing a quarter-million dollar attorney fee award that had been entered against him

Wilson v. Southern California Edison Co. (2018) 21 Cal.App.5th 786

GMSR wins second reversal in high-stakes nuisance lawsuit

Prometheus Real Estate Group, Inc. v. Marazzo (Oct. 19, 2017, A143364) 2017 WL 4684345 [nonpublished opinion]

Court of Appeal affirms judgment for GMSR’s client in real estate dispute