• posted: Aug. 06, 2015
• Melinda Garcia
• Employment Issues,  Employment Law,  Business
• Employment,  best practices,  employee,  employer

One of the greatest assets a company has is its employees, which includes a company’s senior leadership. Most companies are not able to consistently find high quality leaders with the Read More

• posted: Aug. 06, 2015
• leslieburkhammer
• Intellectual Property Rights,  Infringement,  Trade Mark
• litigation,  civil litigation,  trade mark

A December trial date has been scheduled in Los Angeles federal court for a lawsuit in which a British songwriter is alleging that country music star Keith Urban stole his Read More

• posted: Aug. 03, 2015
• leslieburkhammer
• Sexual Discrimination,  Discrimination,  Gender Discrimination
• Sexual Discrimination,  EEOC,  sexual orientation

Employers this week eagerly awaited the most recent decision by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on the rights of employees based on their sexual orientation. Once the 3-2 decision was Read More

• posted: Jun. 26, 2015
• Tod C. Gurney
• Civil Litigation,  Employment Issues,  Employment Law,  Business
• litigation,  Employment,  employee,  employer,  civil litigation

  The delivery giant FedEx has recently agreed to a $227 million settlement for a class action lawsuit involving more than 2,000 past and present employees in California. The case stemmed from Read More

• posted: Jun. 25, 2015
• Melinda Garcia
• Employment Issues
• litigation,  Employment,  employee,  employer

  A recent decision by the California Labor Commissioner’s Office states that a former driver of the ride-sharing company, Uber, should be classified as an employee and not as an independent contractor. Read More

• posted: Jun. 10, 2015
• Melinda Garcia
• Uncategorized,  Civil Litigation,  Business,  Trade Secrets
• Trade Secrets,  civil litigation

  One of the most popular health trends today is the wearable health tracking device. Now, one fitness tracking company is suing another for allegedly strategically luring away employees in a Read More

• posted: Jun. 04, 2015
• Melinda Garcia
• Employment Issues,  Business
• best practices,  employee,  Background Checks

  In a horrible and heart-wrenching case from Washington D.C., an executive, his wife, ten year old son, and housekeeper were all kidnapped, tortured, and killed inside of their home. According Read More

• posted: May 29, 2015
• Tod C. Gurney
• Discrimination,  Gender Discrimination
• Employment discrimination,  transgender,  workplace discrimination

A transgender former employee of Barnes & Noble Bookstore is suing in Orange County federal court, alleging that the management at the store where she worked refused to allow her to Read More

• posted: May 27, 2015
• Tod C. Gurney
• Intellectual Property Rights,  Copyright Infringement,  Infringement
• Copyright Infringement

A copyright lawsuit that claims that the band Led Zeppelin plagiarized the song “Stairway to Heaven” from the band Spirit is changing venues from Philadelphia to California. Despite the plaintiff’s attempt Read More

• posted: May 20, 2015
• Melinda Garcia
• Employment Issues,  Labor Law
• litigation,  Employment,  Labor law,  WARN Act

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against the clothing retailer American Apparel for violations of state labor laws Read More

• posted: May 06, 2015
• Tod C. Gurney
• Copyright Infringement
• Copyright Infringement

Director/producer/writer Joss Whedon and the production company Lionsgate have been sued by a man claiming that they stole the idea for the film, “Cabin in the Woods,” from a novel Read More

• posted: May 06, 2015
• Melinda Garcia
• Transportation
• Transportation

A class action lawsuit filed by the milk tank drivers of Ruan trucking company has been settled out of court. The complaint filed by the drivers alleged that Ruan did Read More

• posted: Apr. 21, 2015
• Tod C. Gurney
• Trade Secrets
• Trade Secrets

The real estate company Zillow, Inc. has successfully managed to knock out the majority of claims in atrade secret lawsuit that accuses the company of stealing an idea on their Read More

• posted: Apr. 15, 2015
• Tod C. Gurney
• Wage & Hour
• Wage & Hour

The superstore giant Walmart is facing a class action lawsuit in Alameda County under the allegation that the retailer has been engaging inwage theft with its employees. According to the Read More

• posted: Apr. 08, 2015
• Melinda Garcia
• Sexual Discrimination
• Sexual Discrimination

The recent verdict of a Californiasex discrimination and retaliation case for a female employee suing her venture capitalist employer has highlighted a number of potential problems that can arise with Read More

• posted: Apr. 02, 2015
• Tod C. Gurney
• Copyright Infringement
• Copyright Infringement

A federal judge in California will rule in the next few weeks whether or not to throw out the decades-oldcopyright for the song, “Happy Birthday to You.” The copyright’s current Read More