Thomas Edward Beltran

Practice Details

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  Fixed hourly rates
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• Firm Information
  Position

  Of Counsel

  Firm Name

  Barton, Klugman & Oetting LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Harbor Regional Center v. Office of Administrative Hearings, (2012) 210 Cal.App.4th 293. Second District Court of Appeal. Obtained an affirmance. The court held that the Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) had jurisdiction over consumer's claim that a temporary worker should receive a pay raise from regional center when acting as a replacement for the child's caregiver during the primary caregiver's maternity leave.

  Samantha C. et al. v. The Office of Administrative Hearings et al., (2010) 185 Cal. App. 4th 1462
  112 Cal. Rptr. 3d 415, Second District Court of Appeal. Obtained a reversal of the trial court order, finding Samantha C. did not have a developmental disability. The importance of this case was further explained in Samantha C. v. State Dept. of Developmental Services, (2012) 207 Cal.App.4th 71.

  Vaughn v. Marable, (2009), Case №
  B199564 (LASC LP010470) Second District Court of Appeal. The trial court's decision was affirmed in part, finding there substantial evidence supporting the trial court's decision that the decedent's son misappropriated one of two parcels of property from the estate.

  
  Peter S. v. Los Angeles Unified School District, (2008) Case №
  09-55248 (D.C. №
  2:03 -cv-06798-FMC-CW) Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, settled in the court mediation process. (Question presented - Can a plaintiff who prevails on his appeal of an adverse administrative decision, bring a claim for 1983 damages
  if so, when does the claim accrue?).

  Peter S. v. Los Angeles Unified School District, (2008) Case №
  2:03 -cv-06798-FMC-CW) Central District of California. Issues on which Plaintiff prevailed in the administrative hearing were affirmed
  on those issues on which Plaintiff did not prevail, they were reversed. Question presented - Is a student entitled to reimbursement of tuition for an out-of-state placement, where the placement became inappropriate two weeks after enrollment?

  In re: John Basmajian Living Trust, (2003) (un-published 2nd District), Case #B156908. Affirmed the trial court's finding that the decedent was susceptible to undue influence due to chronic paid as a result of lung cancer,
  the Trust amendment was obtained by undue influence,
  thereby void.

  County of Los Angeles v. Smith, (1999) 74 Cal. App. 4th 500, affirmed the part of the trial court in which Plaintiff prevailed, reversed the balance of the trial court order. The court halted a collections actions by Los Angeles County against the parents of a child placed into out-of-home placement by the juvenile court, finding the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act's grant of a free-appropriate-public-education preempted state law.