In Johnson v. The Raytheon Company, Inc., Case No. B281411 (2019) WL 1090217, plaintiff Laurence Johnson (Johnson) was a maintenance engineer employed by an independent contractor that provided control room staff to defendant...more
In Vasquez v. San Miguel Produce, Inc. et al. (B287696, 2019 Cal.App. LEXIS 79, publication order 1/3/19), the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District held that a non-signatory to an arbitration agreement had...more
In Cohen v. TNP 2008 Participating Notes Program, et al. (B266702, 2019 Cal.App. LEXIS 76, publication order 1/31/19), the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District held that a non-signatory parent company of a...more
In Kendall v. Scripps Health (D070390), filed 10/18/17, publication order 10/23/17), the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District held that a motion for class certification was properly denied in a case where the...more
In Morales-Simental v. Genentech, Inc. (A145865, filed 9/22/17, publication order 10/19/17), the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District rejected the plaintiffs’ broad interpretation of the “special errand”...more
In Dryden Oaks, LLC v. San Diego County Regional Airport Authority et al.(D068161, filed 9/26/17, publication order 10/19/17), the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District held that the County of San Diego...more
In Retzloff v. Moulton Parkway Residents’ Ass’n, (2017) Cal. App. LEXIS 727, the Fourth District Court of Appeal considered the novel question of whether attorneys’ fees can be included as part of the cost award to a...more
In his Daily Journal article “Senators Duel Over Health Care,” Partner Michael Parme discussed the outcome of the most recent votes in the health care debate and possible next steps.
“While McConnell indicated that the...more
The U.S. Senate’s efforts to craft a health care reform bill that would fulfill the promise of dismantling the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) have been plagued by partisanship, secrecy, disagreement and...more
Behind closed doors, Senate aides work furiously on a piece of legislation that will potentially define the trajectory of health care for the next generation of Americans. Despite its potential impact on millions of Americans...more
Last month, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA). The legislation would effectively repeal and replace key provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The bill, which the...more
In Resh v. China Agritech, No. 15-55432, published May 24, 2017 (Resh), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a would-be class action is not time barred where (1) the plaintiffs were unnamed plaintiffs in two earlier...more
In Gillotti v. Stewart (No. C075611, filed 4/26/17, publication order 5/18/17), the California Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District held that the Right to Repair Act, Civil Code section 895, et seq. (the “Act”)...more
After many weeks of lobbying both lawmakers and voters, Republican leaders in Washington struggled to obtain votes for the proposed replacement healthcare legislation known as the American Health Care Act, culminating in...more
In McLean v. State of California, et al., Case No. S221554, published August 18, 2016, the Supreme Court of California held that Labor Code sections 202 and 203, which govern prompt payment of an employee’s final wages, apply...more
In Contra Cost County v. Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, and Dahl, Case No. A141046 [WCAB No. ADJ1310387], filed September 24, 2015, the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, annulled a Workers’...more
In a recent decision entitled Brown-Ferris Industries of California, Inc., et al., Case No. 32-RC-109684, published August 27, 2015, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) redefined the standard for determining...more
In Mies v. Sephora U.S.A., Inc., No. A139410, published February 26, 2015 (Mies), the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District held that a trial court’s broad discretion to rule on class certification encompasses...more
In Bower v. Inter-Con Security Systems, Inc., No. A135940, published December 31, 2014 (Bower), the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District held that a defendant employer waived its right to arbitration based on...more
In Pacific Corporate Group Holdings, LLC v. Keck, No. D062277, published December 12, 2014 (Keck), the Court of Appeal held that an employee could enforce the terms of an employment contract where the parties’ conduct showed...more
In Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. Busk, et al. (Integrity), No. 13-433, the Supreme Court of the United States held the time spent by warehouse workers waiting to undergo and undergoing security screenings is not...more
In Landers v. Quality Communciations, Inc., et al., No. 12-15890, published November 12, 2014 (Landers), the Ninth Circuit held it is not enough for a complaint under the Fair Labor Standards Act to merely allege that the...more