San Diego, CA
Appeals Lawyer at San Diego, CA
Practice Areas: Appeals
OUTCOME: Court of Appeal reversed the attorney fee award.
R.W.L. lost in the trial court, and Oldcastle received a fee award of approximately $180,000. R.W.L. argued on appeal that the fee award must be reversed because the trial court erred in interpreting t ... he fee provision in the parties' contract.
OUTCOME: Judgment reversed by the California Supreme Court
Plaintiff sought to enjoin the City of Los Angeles from keeping its elephant exhibit open, alleging elephants were being abused. Plaintiff obtained an injunction regulating exercise provided to elephan ... ts; he was denied an injunction closing the exhibit. The Court of Appeal affirmed the judgment. The City of Los Angeles argued that Civil Code section 3369 barred the entire taxpayer claim so the judgment must be reversed.
OUTCOME: 214 Cal.App.4th 385 (2013): Writ of mandate issued directing superior court to grant the requested relief.
Ms. Karcher was counsel for the petitioners challenging the denial of their peremptory challenge of a trial judge. The Court of Appeal granted the petition and issued a writ of mandate directing the s ... uperior court to vacate its order denying petitioners' peremptory challenge and directing the court to issue a new order granting the peremptory challenge.
OUTCOME: Reversed and remanded, Court of Appeal No. D059851
Ms. Karcher was counsel for the appellants, who successfully appealed the grant of summary judgment against them that the CCRs of La Jolla Shores Heights were void. They also successfully asserted tha ... t the statute of limitations barred any claim that the CCRs were invalid due to defects in recorded signatures affixed to the document extending and amending the CCRs.
OUTCOME: The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed an approximately $300 million judgment for i4i Limited Partnership, No. 10-290
Ms. Karcher was counsel of record for amicus curiae Eagle Harbor Holdings, LLC, which urged the court to hold that the burden of proving patent invalidity should remain by clear and convincing evidence ... and not be lowered, as Mircosoft urged, to a preponderance of the evidence. The Supreme Court so held.
OUTCOME: The U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition for a writ of certiorari, resulting in affirmance of the judgment against defendants, No. 10-857
Ms. Karcher was co-counsel with Shawn A. McMillan in the U.S. Supreme Court for plaintiff/respondent Fogarty-Hardwick, who sued a county and its social workers, alleging they wrongly removed her child ... ren from her custody. Her multi-million dollar judgment against the defendants was left intact after the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari.
OUTCOME: Reversed and remanded, Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel, 06-1160-62 & 06-1269
Ms. Karcher was counsel for the appellants before the Ninth Circuit's Bankruptcy Appellate Panel, which reversed an order denying them leave to amend to plead a claim against the debtor under 11 USC se ... ction 523(a)(19).
OUTCOME: Reversed and remanded, D047096.
Ms. Karcher was counsel for appellant Cubic, which appealed the trial court's denial of its motion to compel arbitration; the Court of Appeal reversed the order and directed the trial court to grant th ... e motion.
OUTCOME: The Court of Appeal affirmed a $4 million-plus judgment for the plaintiff/respondent. 126 Cal.App.4th 1330.
Ms. Karcher represented the plaintiff/respondent who received a judgment for $2 million in compensatory damages and an award of over $2 million in attorney fees and costs.
OUTCOME: Reversed in part, D041034.
Ms. Karcher was counsel for the appellant/defendant in an appeal of a judgment entered in a wrongful discharge case, and obtained a reduction of punitive damages from $5 million to $2,196,935.
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