California Court Of Appeal
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$25 million verdict stands despite judge's ex parte communications
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - A California school district lost its bid to overturn a $25 million wrongful-dismissal verdict despite citing communications between the trial judge and a colleague who was an ex-partner of the winning law firm, after an appeals court found no reason to suspect a conflict. -
Court: Losing your foot was notice of possible malpractice claim
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - A man who developed gangrene and had to have his foot amputated waited too long to sue a California county for medical malpractice, an appeals court ruled, rejecting the plaintiff’s argument he only discovered he had a potential claim after visiting the Mexican consulate on another matter months after his foot was cut off. -
Court: Stroke victim was in no shape to sign arbitration agreement
VENTURA, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - A California skilled nursing facility will have to fight a wrongful death lawsuit, as a state appeals court has found the patient lacked the capacity to enter into an arbitration agreement. -
500 days of litigation: Delay caused by Calif. officials doesn't doom False Claims Act case
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - Defendants facing accusations they defrauded California's workers' compensation system through medical insurance fraud can't take an exit ramp to dismissal after the case failed to proceed to trial within five years. -
Calif. court won't penalize company that thought it was complying with labor law
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - Good intentions have paid off for a company sued in California for failing to include reimbursement for rest breaks on wage statements for employees. -
GE's arbitration argument fails as employee pursues sexual harassment lawsuit
SANTA ANA, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - California courts are refusing to apply a 2022 federal law relating to sexual assault and harassment claims to lawsuits filed before it was signed by President Joe Biden. -
No evidence to support 'whistleblower' claim against addiction center, court rules
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - A would-be whistleblower who was on the job for less than six months convinced California insurance regulators a detoxification center ran up tens of millions of dollars in improper bills but a trial judge was correct to dismiss her claims for lack of evidence, an appeals court ruled. -
Longtime Avon exec hadn't been there long enough to testify about asbestos in talcum powder
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - The testimony of an Avon executive can't be used to defeat a lawsuit that alleges exposure to asbestos from the company's talcum powder, a California appeals court has found. -
School district off the hook for erasing video evidence of sexual assault
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) - A California school district was unduly censured for routinely erasing video footage that might have been valuable evidence of a sexual assault, an appeals court ruled, finding there was not enough evidence the district knew at the time it would be sued. -
Court rejects plaintiff lawyers' attempt to eliminate California's cap on fees
FRESNO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - A law firm has no basis for suing to eliminate California’s cap on contingency fees and non-economic damages in malpractice lawsuits, an appeals court ruled, citing previous decisions by the state Supreme Court as well as the law firm’s speculative theories about how the caps deny plaintiffs the right to sue. -
Chokehold victim can't sue Brazilian jiu-jitsu organization
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - A man who took up Brazilian jiu-jitsu at age 49 and was injured sparring with another man can’t sue the national organization affiliated with the studio where he was hurt, a California appeals court ruled. -
San Diego's school COVID vaccine mandate rejected by court
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) - San Diego can’t impose a Covid vaccine mandate on students because state law governs which vaccinations are required to attend public school, an appeals court ruled, rejecting arguments officials had to act to protect students and the school district from liability. -
Lawyers' effort to call a neurosurgeon a 'debt collector' fails at appeals court
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - A neurosurgeon who outsources all of his billing to a debt-collection firm isn’t subject to California’s Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, an appeals court ruled, rejecting a lawsuit by a woman who claimed she was harassed over a bill stemming from her husband’s trip to the emergency room. -
Software exec gets new trial over firing from 'boys club' firm
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - A woman who said she was fired from a Swiss software company after a high-ranking executive told her she’d never succeed because it was a “boys club” and accused her of being a “bitch” can proceed with her lawsuit, a California appeals court ruled. -
California court: Disability not a viable reason to dismiss juror
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - A woman who lost a malpractice lawsuit against her anesthesiologist will get a second chance after a California appeals court ruled a defense lawyer improperly challenged two potential jurors because they had disabled family members. -
Court rebuffs coffee-causes-cancer lawsuits
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - The group that once hoped to extract settlements to restaurants that sold coffee for lacking a cancer warning salvaged six figures in attorneys fees it was once ordered to pay. -
New trial for case that exposed insurers to billions in damages
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - A California appeals court ordered a new trial for a lawsuit that produced a state Supreme Court decision exposing life insurance companies to billions of dollars in damages, by ruling a 2013 law applied to retroactively to every policy sold in the state. -
San Diego dealt blow in wrongful death lawsuit; Police didn't watch one-hour instruction video
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) - Family members of a motorcyclist who crashed after leading police on a 100-mph chase might win money from the City of San Diego because police officers didn’t spend a required hour a year watching videos on how to conduct vehicular pursuits. -
'WHT CHOCO' on price tag could be false advertising, Calif. court rules
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - Consumers could be misled into believing Target’s White Baking Morsels contain white chocolate because the price tag had the abbreviation “WHT CHOCO,” a California appeals court ruled, reviving a class action a trial judge had dismissed after finding no reasonable consumer could have been deceived. -
California has plaintiff lawyers earning $280K in fees for $15,000 settlement
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - A recent ruling by the California Supreme Court has cleared the way for lawyers to earn $280,000 for negotiating a $15,000 settlement