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Today's News

Torts/Personal Injury, Consumer Law

An obsession with baseball and a coach who wouldn't take any excuses helped get personal injury attorney Joseph Barrett through one of the toughest periods i...


Data Privacy, Civil Litigation

Disney sued over data breach

Oct. 8, 2024
By Antoine Abou-Diwan

The hacker behind the attack claimed it was motivated by Disney's alleged poor treatment of its artists and disregard for its customers, according to court d...


Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.

The ruling, which goes into effect Nov. 1, is a sweeping victory for Epic Games, which won a jury verdict last year that found Google Play and the Google Pla...


Labor/Employment, Civil Rights

The company, founded in 1994 in Chennai, India and headquartered in Teaneck, N.J., was accused of discriminating against non-Indian candidates applying for j...


Civil Litigation

The ruling stems from litigation surrounding claims that solar power supplier company DC Solar Solutions Inc. engaged in a scheme to defraud investors into i...


Environmental & Energy, Consumer Law, Business Law

San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Ethan P. Schulman said that arguments in favor of defendants' motion to quash claims brought by the state and sever...


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Slur about Irish drunkenness is unacceptable

Oct. 8, 2024
By Ciarán O’Sullivan

The stereotype of Irish drunkenness in an article published on Oct. 4 is unacceptable, and highlights the double standard comp...


Government, Criminal

California's use of clean-record agreements to conceal the police misconduct of hundreds of officers is an egregious practice ...


California's recent legislative changes have significantly weakened the state's lemon law, shifting the burden of dealing with...



Verdicts & Settlements

Landlord and Tenant Tom Lackey, Sergio Camacho,... $19,796,939
Auto v. Auto Romelia Chaidez, Jorge Chai... $17,200,000
Hostile Work Environment Carryn Barker v. San Mateo ... $8,000,000
Wage and Hour Diego Guzman and Kevin Whit... $3,800,000
Auto v. Truck Jerry Mostad v. County of L... $2,750,000
Environmental Protection United States of America, T... $2,300,000
Wage and Hour Cassandra Negrete, as an in... $2,000,000
Malpractice Jordan Primo v. County of L... $1,600,000
Wage and Hour Joey Reyes, individually, a... $1,200,000
School Incident Jane Doe 7049 v. Westminste... $950,000

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Oct. 3, 2024


Brian B. Kelly as Shareholder in San Francisco from We Work.

Kelly counsels companies of all sizes on the entire employment life cycle, including hiring, termination, wages and hours, incentive compensation programs, policies, investigations, leaves, discrimination/harassment/retaliation, and restrictive covenants, among other issues. He also will support the firm's Corporate Practice, advising clients on employment matters related to buy- and sell-side mergers and acquisitions and other transactional matters.


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Dickinson Wright opens San Diego office

Oct. 2, 2024
By Douglas Saunders Sr.

Three intellectual property lawyers have joined the firm from Sheppard Mullin.



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Daily Appellate Report

Arbitration, Consumer Law

Kramer v. Coinbase, Inc.

Trial court did not err in concluding that plaintiffs were not required to arbitrate their consumer law, public injunctive relief claims against cryptocurrency company.


Consumer Law, Civil Procedure

Lathrop v. Thor Motor Coach, Inc.

Burden of showing forum selection clause was unreasonable was improperly placed on consumers rather than party seeking to enforce the clause where consumers' claims involved unwaivable st...


Arbitration, Employment Law

Liu v. Miniso Depot CA, Inc.

The Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act exempts an entire case from arbitration where plaintiff asserts at least one sexual harassment claim subject to t...


Criminal Law and Procedure

People v. Dorado

Dual use of same aggravating factor to impose both full, consecutive terms for sex offenses and upper terms for those same counts was error.


Environmental Law

Yolo Land and Water Defense v. County of Yolo (Teichert Inc.)

Although petitioner elected to prepare the administrative record, County was properly awarded costs for preparing documents requested pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act.