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Defendant’s Submitted A Different Arbitration Agreement To The Court, Not The One Signed By Plaintiffs. 27 Aug 2013 | 04:59 am
Defendants’ petition to individually arbitrate plaintiffs’ wage and hour claims was denied by the trial court. The appellate court affirmed in light of evidence plaintiffs signed an arbitration agreem...
Names Of Police Officers Involved In Pepper Spraying Incident Ordered Released. 27 Aug 2013 | 04:49 am
A labor union representing University of California police officers filed a petition for writ of mandate from a trial court order requiring the release of unredacted reports containing the names of UC...
Dept. Of Industrial Relations Estopped From Claiming Cosmetologists Are Employees After Labor Commissioner Found Them To Be Independent Contractors. 25 Aug 2013 | 12:31 am
An administrative law judge concluded cosmetologists were independent contractors, and, therefore several salons were not liable for contributions for unemployment, employment training and disability ...
Long Time Employee Fired After Discrimination On Statute Of Limitations Issues. 24 Aug 2013 | 03:47 am
Plaintiff worked for defendant since 1979 and was consistently praised for her work. In 2006, she began working under a new supervisor. The new supervisor made numerous “condescending” comments about ...
Disney’s Procedures Did Not Amount To A Lack Of Reasonable Accommodation. 24 Aug 2013 | 03:26 am
Disabled woman brought an action against Disney because Disneyland has a policy barring Segway devices from the park. The trial court granted summary judgment to Disney after finding it established th...
Hippotherapy Not Covered By State of California Children’s Services, CCS. 23 Aug 2013 | 07:07 am
Child, now approximately 12 years old, was born with severe orthopedic problems and requires physical therapy. She received hippotherapy, involving placement of the child upon a horse wherein a therap...
Judge Used As Pawn In Civil Extortion / Settlement Demand? 23 Aug 2013 | 06:43 am
In a squabble over the receipts of a consortium of restaurants, a demand letter was sent. The appellate opinion contains the letter, albeit with the name and photograph of the judge omitted. A portion...
Spiderman Not Able To Combat His Foes. 22 Aug 2013 | 05:31 am
Plaintiff invented a SpiderMan toy that allowed a user to mimic the superhero with foam string. Thereafter a rival produced a similar SpiderMan role-playing toy. Plaintiff sued the rival for patent in...
United States Supreme Court Issues Proposition 8 Opinion. 21 Aug 2013 | 09:29 pm
On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its ruling on the Proposition 8 matter in an opinion authored by John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States. After first noting th...
False Imprisonment Action Against Counties To Proceed. 21 Aug 2013 | 05:51 am
The allegations are that a man was stopped by police for driving while talking on a cellphone. He handed over his driver’s license, which showed his name as Freddy Pantoja Rodriguez, his registration,...
