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California: Lawyers get $518K in fees for winning client $70K
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - Lawyers who won their client $70,000 in an employment dispute can collect half a million dollars in fees, but no additional interest, a California appeals court ruled -
Court rules against booted USC football player in his fight against disciplinary process
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - It's more bad news from California courts for a University of Southern California player kicked off the team who claimed the disciplinary process to hear intimate violence charges against him was unfair. -
No study, no problem: Court allows experts to link any cancer to diesel exhaust
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) - There’s no need for expert witnesses to point to a specific study showing a substance causes a disease as long as they have a reasonable basis for believing the two are connected, a California appeals court ruled, reversing a trial judge’s disqualification of experts who linked diesel exhaust to blood cancer. -
Life insurers face billions in liability for their actions before California changed the rules
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - Life insurance companies doing business in California face billions of dollars in potential liability as plaintiff lawyers seize upon a state Supreme Court ruling that applies a 2012 law to tens of thousands of policies sold years before. -
Legal malpractice case won't be reopened because lawyer wasn't licensed
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – A lawyer’s failure to be licensed in his state won’t cause his firm to pay more than $5 million to an unhappy client. -
YMCA defeats wrongful death lawsuit: Resident fell off roof after pot brownie
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – A California YMCA won’t be liable for the death of a resident who fell off its steep roof after drinking alcohol and eating a marijuana brownie. -
Case against Uber over death of highly intoxicated Univ. of San Diego student transferred
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - Uber and two of its drivers won a change of venue in a lawsuit accusing them of responsibility for the death of a University of San Diego student who vomited in one vehicle and ran away from a second, dying miles away after being hit by two cars on the highway. -
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California court closes door on website-accessibility lawsuits
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - A California appeals court may have closed the door on a once-lucrative area of the law for plaintiff attorneys, ruling the websites of internet-only retailers are not “places of public accommodation” under the Americans With Disabilities Act. -
Still uncertainty in lawsuit over whether AutoZone offered cashier a stool
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – A former AutoZone employee will get a second chance to hammer her ex-employer with her lawsuit brought under California’s Private Attorney General Act, as she claims she was never offered a seat while working at the register. -
Sotheby's might be liable for $4 million in missing diamonds
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - Sotheby’s Inc. might be liable for handing $4 million in diamonds to a man who promptly disappeared, a California appeals court ruled, reversing a trial judge’s decision dismissing the case. -
Court overturns $3 million punitive damages award in case of Old Spice talcum powder
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - A California appeals court reversed a $3 million punitive-damages award against a former supplier of cosmetic talc, ruling there wasn’t evidence the company’s executives knew their product contained dangerous amounts of asbestos when the plaintiff claimed his exposure. -
Girl stabbed on campus at 6 p.m. can take case against school to jury
SANTA ANA, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – A California school district might be held liable for the stabbing of a student at a high school well after her evening track practice had concluded. -
Industry group loses constitutional challenge to California's Private Attorney General Act
SANTA ANA, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - A lobbying group for California businesses lost a constitutional challenge to a state labor law that allows citizens to act as private attorneys general, as an appeals court rejected claims the law violates the separation of powers. -
Court gives San Diego the green light to sue Instacart over payroll taxes
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) - A California appeals court ruled that San Diego can sue Instacart for failing to collect payroll taxes from shoppers who use its app, even though California citizens passed a proposition confirming shoppers were independent contractors. -
Appellate court denies Intuit's plea to transfer 40,000 TurboTax customer complaints to small claims court
An appellate court rejected Intuit’s request that it issue an injunction to stop consumer arbitrations en masse -
Compressor maker liable for 60% of huge asbestos verdict despite 14 other defendants
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - A California appeals court upheld a jury verdict assigning 60% of the responsibility for a man’s mesothelioma to a compressor manufacturer even though the plaintiff identified 14 other defendants including the U.S. Navy that allegedly contributed to his disease. -
Lawmakers plan appeal of reversal on ban of Gov. Newsom's emergency executive power to the California Supreme Court
Assemblymen Kevin Kiley and James Gallagher are preparing a California Supreme Court appeal brief after a panel of three Third District Court of Appeal justices ruled against the lawmakers last week. -
Court affirms $9.3M verdict for unauthorized penis surgery
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - A California appeals court on Sept. 10 upheld a multimillion-dollar damage award to a man who was left impotent by surgery on his penis that he never authorized, finding the state’s $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases doesn’t apply to claims of intentional misconduct. -
Appellate Court decides against objections to high rise housing in Hollywood
AIDS Health Foundation sued city of Los Angeles for planned Sunset Blvd housing development -
Court rules production company had no duty to seaman who lost fingers due to infection while filming 'Big Fish Texas'
LOS ANGELES – A California seaman who lost three fingers to amputation because of infection on a commercial fishing expedition that was being filmed by a reality TV show production company was denied an appeal by the California 2nd Appellate District, Division Two.