Tomorrow morning, the Supreme Court will file its opinions in Gutierrez v. Tostado and People v. Faial. (Briefs here and here; oral argument videos here and here.)
Gutierrez is expected to decide whether the one-year statute of limitations in the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (MICRA; Code Civ. Proc., § 340.5) applies to a personal injury claim alleging that the plaintiff’s vehicle was struck by a negligently driven ambulance. The court granted review in March 2024. More about the case here.
In Faial, the court will address whether Assembly Bill No. 1950 (Stats. 2020, ch. 328) applies retroactively to a defendant, serving a suspended-execution sentence, whose probation was revoked before the law went into effect. The court granted review in May 2022. More about the case here and here.
Faial will be the fourth of eight opinions for cases argued on the early-May calendar. Two of the remaining four opinions should file Monday. Gutierrez will be the first of eight opinions argued in late May. Three of the other seven opinions are due by August 18. Other argued by undecided cases are the seven on the June calendar, with most of those opinions filing by August 28.
Because of post-argument briefing, a number of opinions will likely file outside the usual 90-days-from-argument time period: Taking Offense v. State of California (argued in early May) and Los Angeles Police Protective League v. City of Los Angeles (argued in late May) could be decided as late as November 10 (see here); opinions in the death penalty appeals in People v. Bankston (argued in early May), People v. Chhuon and Pan (argued in late May), and People v. Barrera (argued in June) might not file until December 1 (see here); the People v. Cardenas death penalty appeal, argued in late May, could be decided as late as September 15; and the opinion in People v. Superior Court (Guevara), argued in June, might not file until October 9.
The Gutierrez and Faial opinions can be viewed tomorrow starting at 10:00 a.m.
