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  • Lamear v. Berryhill

    Publication Date: 2017-08-02
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Federal Government
    Date Filed: 2017-08-01
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Marco A. Hernandez, District Judge, Presiding Before: Marsha S. Berzon, Paul J. Watford, and John B. Owens, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alyson R. Young (argued) and Merrill Schneider, Schneider Kerr & Gibney Law Offices, Portland, Oregon, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Jordan Dylan Goddard (argued), Assistant Regional Counsel; David Morado, Regional Chief Counsel, Seattle Region X; Office of the General Counsel, Social Security Administration, Seattle, Washington; Ronald K. Silver, Assistant United States Attorney; United States Attorney's Office, Seattle, Washington; for Defendant-Appellee.
    Case Number: No. 15-35088

    Apparent conflict between vocational expert's recommendations and job descriptions set forth in DOT necessitated further inquiry (Owens, J.)

  • Fuller v. Idaho Department of Corrections

    Publication Date: 2017-08-01
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-07-31
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Justin L. Quackenbush, District Judge, Presiding Before: Susan P. Graber, Sandra S. Ikuta, and Andrew D. Hurwitz, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathryn K. Harstad (argued) and Erika Birch, Strindberg & Scholnick LLC, Boise, Idaho, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Phillip J. Collaer (argued) and Tracy J. Crane, Anderson Julian & Hull LLP, Boise, Idaho, for Defendants-Appellees.
    Case Number: No. 14-36110

    Employer's public endorsement of employee's rapist could be found to create hostile work environment (Hurwitz, J.)

  • Baker v. Workers Compensation Appeals Board

    Publication Date: 2017-07-31
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government | Construction
    Date Filed: 2017-07-28
    Court: C.A. 6th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel for Petitioner, Christine Baker, Director of Industrial Relations As Administrator of the Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund: Christopher G. Jagard, Chief Counsel, Christopher Frick, Assistant Chief Counsel, Michelle G. Bethge, Staff Counsel, Department of Industrial Relations.
    for defendant: Counsel for Respondent, The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board of the State of California: James Thomas Losee, Department of Industrial Relations/WCAB.
    Case Number: No. H043291

    Permanently disabled worker's SIBTF benefits should start at same time as permanent disability benefits (Grover, J.)

  • Minnick v. Automotive Creations, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2017-07-31
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Automotive
    Date Filed: 2017-07-28
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Law Offices of Kenneth A. Goldman and Kenneth Alan Goldman; Law Offices of Ari Moss and Ari Emanuel Moss; Law Offices of Zorik Mooradian and Zorik Mooradian for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Slattery Sobel & Decamp, J. L. Sean Slattery and Azar M. Khazian; Law Office of David P. Hall and David P. Hall for Defendants and Respondents.
    Case Number: No. D070555

    Employer lawfully excluded employees from earning any vacation pay until after completion of their first year of service (Haller, J.)

  • Kizer v. Tristar Risk Management

    Publication Date: 2017-07-27
    Practice Area: Class Actions | Employment Litigation
    Industry: Insurance
    Date Filed: 2017-06-26
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Blumenthal, Nordrehaug & Bhowmik, Norman B. Blumenthal and Kyle R. Nordrehaug for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Seyfarth Shaw, Jon D. Meer, Sheryl L. Skibbe and Leo Q. Li for Defendant and Respondent.
    Case Number: No. G052558

    Class certification precluded by plaintiff's failure to show practice or policy impacting all members of proposed class (Aronson, J.)

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  • Alvarez v. Seaside Transportation Services LLC

    Publication Date: 2017-07-21
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Employment Litigation
    Industry: Cargo and Shipping
    Date Filed: 2017-07-20
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Law Offices of Richard Devirian and Richard C. Devirian; Esner, Chang & Boyer and Stuart B. Esner for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Cox, Wootton, Lerner, Griffin & Hansen, Richard C. Wootton, Mitchell S. Griffin and Marc A. Centor for Defendants and Respondents.
    Case Number: No. B275980

    Injured contractor's employee made no showing to undermine application of Privette (Sortino, J.)

  • Chugach Management Services v. Jetnil

    Publication Date: 2017-07-21
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Defense
    Date Filed: 2017-07-21
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Before: William C. Canby and Mary H. Murguia, Circuit Judges, and Cynthia M. Rufe,*District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith L. Flicker (argued) and Timothy A. Pedergnana, Flicker Garelick & Associates LLP, New York, New York, for Petitioners.
    for defendant: Patrick B. Streb (argued), Weltin Streb & Weltin LLP, Oakland, California; Matthew W. Boyle (argued), Attorney; Gary K. Stearman, Counsel for Appellate Litigation; Mark Reinhalter, Counsel for Longshore; Rae Ellen James, Associate Solicitor; M. Patricia Smith, Solicitor of Labor; United States Department of Labor, Washington, D.C.; for Respondents.
    Case Number: No. 15-72873

    "Zone of special danger" doctrine applies to local nationals employed on contracts covered under Defense Base Act (Murguia, J.)

  • Lehman v. Nelson

    Publication Date: 2017-07-14
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Construction
    Date Filed: 2017-07-14
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Ricardo S. Martinez, Chief Judge, Presiding Before: Dorothy W. Nelson, Milan D. Smith, Jr., and Morgan Christen, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard J. Birmingham (argued), Christine Hawkins, and Joseph P. Hoag, Davis Wright Tremaine, Seattle, Washington, for Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant/Plaintiff-Appellant Richard Lehman.
    for defendant: Seth Floyd (argued), Nathan R. Ring, and Michael A. Urban, The Urban Law Firm, Las Vegas, Nevada, for Defendants-Appellants/Defendants-Appellees/Cross-Appellants Warner Nelson, et al.
    Case Number: No. 15-35414 Nos. 15-35457, 15-35696

    Pension fund improperly withheld employer contributions to improve pension plan's funding status (Christen, J.)

  • Williams v. Superior Court (Marshalls of CA, LLC)

    Publication Date: 2017-07-13
    Practice Area: Class Actions | Employment Litigation
    Industry: Retail
    Date Filed: 2017-07-13
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Capstone Law, Glenn A. Danas, Ryan Wu, Robert Drexler, Stan Karas and Liana Carter for Petitioner.
    for defendant: No appearance for Respondent.Littler Mendelson, Robert G. Hulteng, Amy Todd-Gher, Kyle W. Nageotte, Joshua J. Cliffe, Emily E. O'Connor and Scott D. Helsinger for Real Party in Interest.
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    Plaintiff in PAGA action against employer entitled to discovery of fellow employees' names and contact information (Werdegar, J.)

  • Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs v. Superior Court (Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department)

    Publication Date: 2017-07-12
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation | Privacy | Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-07-11
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Green & Shinee, Richard A. Shinee, Elizabeth J. Gibbons, and Emily B. Suhr for Petitioner.
    for defendant: Frederick Bennett for Respondent.Liebert Cassidy Whitmore, Geoffrey S. Sheldon, Alex Y. Wong, and James E. Oldendorph, Jr. for Real Parties in Interest.
    Case Number: No. B280676

    Identities of individual deputies found to have committed misconduct may not be released to prosecution absent compliance with Pitchess (Sortino, J.)