• Park v. Board of Trustees of the California State University

    Publication Date: 2017-05-04
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-05-04
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Siegel & Yee, Jane E. Brunner and Alan S. Yee for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Towle, Denison, Smith & Maniscalco, Towle Denison & Maniscalco and Michael C. Denison for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number:

    University's tenure decision not protected conduct for purposes of anti-SLAPP statute (Werdegar, J.)

  • Rizo v. Yovino

    Publication Date: 2017-04-27
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-04-27
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Michael J. Seng, Magistrate Judge, Presiding Before: A. Wallace Tashima and Andrew D. Hurwitz, Circuit Judges, and Lynn S. Adelman,*District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel M. Siegel (argued) and Kevin Brunner, Siegel & Yee, Oakland, California, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: Michael Gary Woods (argued) and Timothy J. Buchanan, McCormick Barstow Sheppard Wayte & Carruth LLP, Fresno, California, for Defendant-Appellant.

    Case Number: No. 16-15372

    Use of female employee's most recent prior salary to determine salary not inherently discriminatory (Adelman, J)

  • Featherstone v. Southern California Permanente Medical Group

    Publication Date: 2017-04-20
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Health Care
    Date Filed: 2017-04-19
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nixon Peabody, Michael R. Lindsay, Alicia C. Anderson and Mae K. Hau for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Rushovich Mehtani, Aanand Ghods-Mehtani and Lisa M. Watanabe-Peagler for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. B275225

    Employer's refusal to allow employee to rescind prior resignation not adverse employment action under FEHA (Johnson, J.)

  • Shaw v. Superior Court (THC—Orange County, Inc.)

    Publication Date: 2017-04-10
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation | Civil Appeals | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Date Filed: 2017-04-10
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Shegerian & Associates, Inc., Carney R. Shegerian and Anthony Nguyen for Petitioner.
    for defendant: No appearance for Respondent. Shaw Valenza, D. Gregory Valenza and Jasmine L. Anderson for Real Parties in Interest.

    Case Number:

    Health care whistleblower not entitled to jury trial on retaliation complaint (Cantil-Sakauye, C.J.)

  • Santillan v. USA Waste of California, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2017-04-07
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation | Transportation
    Industry: Transportation
    Date Filed: 2017-04-07
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Andre Birotte, Jr., District Judge, Presiding Before: Harry Pregerson, Jacqueline H. Nguyen, and John B. Owens, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Holly Noelle Boyer (argued), and Andrew N. Chang, Esner Chang & Boyer, Pasadena, California; Louanne Masry and John C. Taylor, Taylor & Ring LLP, Los Angeles, California; for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher J. Boman (argued), Fisher & Phillips LLP, Irvine, California; Kristen J. Nesbit, Fisher & Phillips LLP, Los Angeles, California; for Defendant-Appellee.

    Case Number: No. 15-55238

    Employee's alleged failure to provide proof of employment eligibility not valid basis for termination (Pregerson, J.)

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  • Batze v. Safeway, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2017-04-05
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Retail
    Date Filed: 2017-04-04
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniels, Fine, Israel, Schonbuch & Lebovits, Paul R. Fine, Scott A. Brooks and Craig S. Momita; Law Offices of Ian Herzog and Ian Herzog; Law Offices of Stephen Glick and Stephen Glick for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: Littler Mendelson, J. Kevin Lilly, R. Brian Dixon and Philip L. Ross for Defendants and Respondents.

    Case Number: No. B258732

    Employer claiming employees' tasks were primarily managerial not required to document each and every week (Manella, J.)

  • Marinwood Community Services v. Workers Compensation Appeals Board

    Publication Date: 2017-03-30
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-03-29
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: D'Andre, Peterson, Bobus & Rosenberg, Bernard J. Finnegan, Bonnie B. Park for Petitioners.
    for defendant: Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, Anne Schmitz, James T. Losee for Respondent.

    Case Number: No. A147582

    Firefighter entitled to workers' compensation benefits from all three departments for which he worked (Stewart, J.)

  • Ramirez v. Workers Compensation Appeals Board

    Publication Date: 2017-03-29
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation | Administrative Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-03-29
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mastagni Holstedt, Eric D. Ledger, and Gregory G. Gomez for Petitioner.
    for defendant: No appearance for Respondent Workers' Compensation Appeals Board.

    Case Number: No. C078440

    Workers' Compensation Appeals Board had no jurisdiction over injured worker's claim of substantive errors in employer's medical treatment utilization review (Blease, Acting P.J.)

  • Quiles v. Parent

    Publication Date: 2017-03-28
    Practice Area: Damages | Employment Litigation | Civil Procedure
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-03-27
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bryan Schwartz Law and Bryan Schwartz; Levene, Neale, Bender, Yoo & Brill and Daniel H. Reiss for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Law Office of Stephen A. Madoni and Stephen A. Madoni for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. G054353

    No bond required to stay enforcement of judgment for fees and costs only pending resolution of appeal (by the court)

  • Farrar v. Direct Commerce, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2017-03-24
    Practice Area: Dispute Resolution | Employment Litigation
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-03-23
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: McGuinn, Hillsman & Palefsky, Cliff Palefsky and Scott M. Stillman for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, Littler Mendelson, Nancy E. Pritikin and Krista Stevenson Johnson for Defendant and Appellant.

    Case Number: No. A146944

    Offending portion of arbitration agreement was readily severable (Banke, J.)