Torts/Personal Injury
Sep. 4, 2024
Doctoral student accuses LA law firm of defamation in letter to UC Davis
The student, also a researcher at the Aquarium of the Bay, said the Belous Law Corp. Did not investigate before following their client's instructions to falsely accuse her of trade secrets theft in a letter that threatened completion of her dissertation.
A former UC Davis student and researcher at the Aquarium of the Bay accused a Los Angeles firm, Belous Law Corp., of knowingly sending a false trade secrets theft notice to her university as part of a "campaign of discrimination and harassment."
The plaintiff, Meghan Holst, accused the law firm of defamation, in the complaint filed in San Francisco County Superior Court last week by Julien Swanson and Eric Bass of Austin Swanson Law Firm PC.
The complaint accus...
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