Qualified Patients Ass’n v. City of Anaheim, G040077, concerned a challenge to the trial court’s order sustaining the city’s demurrer to plaintiffs’ complaint without leave to amend, in plaintiffs’ action against the City of Anaheim, seeking a declaratory judgment that state’s medical marijuana laws preempted the city’s ordinance prohibiting medical marijuana dispensaries within the city.

 

People v. Schmitz, G040641, concerned a challenge to a conviction of defendant of four misdemeanors pursuant to a guilty plea, following the trial court’s denial of defendant’s motion to suppress evidence of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia found on the floor in the rear passenger area of his car, based on a search premised on the parolee status of a passenger in defendant’s car.  In reversing the conviction, the court held that a mere passenger in a vehicle, who claims neither a possessory nor property interest therein, lacks the “common authority” over the vehicle which would allow him either to consent or object to its search.  Thus, the parole status of such a passenger cannot be relied upon as the sole basis to justify such a search.

MRI Healthcare Ctr. of Glendale, Inc. v. State Farm Gen. Ins. Co., B213985, involved an action against an insurer for denying plaintiff’s claim under a business insurance policy for loss as a result of claimed damage to its MRI machine and loss of income after the machine failed to satisfactorily “ramp up” after it was “ramped down.”

In affirming the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant-insurer, the court held that, under the evidence presented in this record, the court did not err in determining that insurer was entitled to a judgment as a matter of law because plaintiff did not suffer an “accidental direct physical” loss under Coverage A or Coverage B.  The court rejected plaintiff’s remaining contentions as they were without merit.  Also, the same reasons that support the court’s grant of defendant’s motion for summary judgment support the denial of plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment.  Lastly, plaintiff has no basis to maintain a claim for breach of the covenant of good faith, and lacking such a claim, there is no basis for an award of punitive damages.

Related Resources:

  • Full text of MRI Healthcare Ctr. of Glendale, Inc. v. State Farm Gen. Ins. Co., B213985
  • Full text of Qualified Patients Ass’n v. City of Anaheim, G040077
  • Full text of People v. Schmitz, G040641

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