The moral fiber of our society continues to degrade. The following is an attorney ethics issue and as a reminder attorney’s are held to a higher standard.
After a trial on a sexual harassment claim resulting in an $8,080 jury
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Insurer Does Not Have a Duty to Defend for Accidentally Trimming Neighbors Tree
A homeowner’s liability insurer does not have duty to defend a lawsuit after the insured intentionally pruned trees on another’s property without permission. The intentional act of hiring a contractor to prune is not an “accident” within the meaning of…
A Medical Marijuana Card Still Has Some Benefits
In California while recreational cannabis is all the rage after January 1, 2018, the California. Medical marijuana laws under California’s “Compassionate Use” Act still provide some benefits. Including:
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What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas even, if it caused conception!
Intimate Sexual Contact Alone Does Not Constitute Minimum Contacts. A California woman conceived a child in Connecticut but filed a paternity and child support suit in California against the father living in Connecticut. The trial court denied his man moved to…
61% of the time Trial Verdicts Are Usually the Same as a Pre-Trial Settlement Offers
In an article by Sanford Gage, who is a very good mediator, 9,000 California settlement decisions were analyzed over 41 years comparing rejected pretrial settlement offers and actual trial results. Sixty-one percent of the time, the plaintiffs obtained an award…
GAO Study Shows Federal Court Plaintiffs Only Win 35% Of The Time!
In law school you are taught “if you are a defendant remove the case to the Federal Court”. University of Connecticut law professors Alexandra Lahav and Peter Siegelman studied 30 years of data from the Administrative Office of the U.S.…
Starbucks Must Pay for All Employee’s Work, even if just a drip of time! (Troester v. Starbucks Corp. (2018) 5 Cal.5th 829)
In Troester v. Starbucks Corp. (2018) 5 Cal.5th 829 the California Supreme Court answered a legal question sent to it from the Federal Court asking if the relevant wage order and statutes. The Court held that California does not adopt…
California will now allow out-of-state and foreign lawyers to provide legal services in international commercial arbitrations conducted in California SB 766. (CCP § 1297.185)
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The new CCP §1297.185 essentially over rules the 1998…
Limits on Civil Subpoenas (No Telephone records without consumer consent)
Phone company records are difficult to obtain. I say difficult, not impossible. Even with a validly issued civil subpoena, the phone company will not comply without a notarized written consent from the consumer who “owns” the phone number. You need…
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