JURIST

MAY 19, 2022

Plaintiff Purushothaman Rajaram Tuesday filed a class action lawsuit in a California US District Court against Meta Platforms Inc., Facebook’s new parent company for employment discrimination. The post Facebook sued for giving preference to visa workers appeared first on JURIST - News.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A California jury on Monday found that Dow Chemical owes $56.3 million in punitive damages for its role manufacturing dry cleaning chemicals that contaminated the city of Modesto's soil and groundwater, according to attorneys for the city.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 4, 2024

A federal judge said Friday she will have to decide count by count whether she can allow a Massachusetts couple suing eBay over a harassment campaign against them to seek punitive damages under California law while pursuing compensatory damages for the same claims under the laws of the pair's home state.

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JURIST

MARCH 24, 2022

A jury for the US District Court for the Northern District of California awarded Comet Technologies $40 million in damages on Wednesday, finding that a rival company had misappropriated trade secrets on equipment used in the manufacturing of semiconductor chips. Comet had sought compensatory damages of $32.5

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 9, 2021

“Bayer Loses Third Appeal of Roundup Herbicide Cancer Verdict”: Joel Rosenblatt and Jef Feeley of Bloomberg News have this report on a ruling that a partially divided three-judge panel of California’s First District Court of Appeal issued today.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 3, 2021

Assume that you successfully obtained a favourable judgment from a foreign court that orders the losing party to pay punitive damages in addition to compensatory damages. Could the judgment be enforced in Japan where punitive damages are considered as contrary to public policy?

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Law 360

MAY 3, 2023

Ex-insurance agents' counsel asked a California jury during closings Wednesday to award $17.24 million in compensatory damages and $120 million in punitive damages against Farmers Group Inc.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Roblox, an online game platform, sued content creator Benjamin Robert Simon on Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California for encouraging “unlawful acts designed to injure Roblox and its users.”

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JURIST

MAY 26, 2022

Heresniak seeks a jury trial, declaratory and injunctive relief, punitive damages and attorneys’ fees. Therefore, Heresniak believes Musk intentionally engaged in “unlawful conduct” to tank Twitter’s value. The post Shareholder sues Elon Musk and Twitter over stock decline appeared first on JURIST - News.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

A California federal jury on Monday awarded Guardant Health $292.5 million in actual and punitive damages after finding that medical test company Natera Inc. falsely advertised its colorectal cancer assay Signatera as superior to Guardant's competing product Reveal.

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Law 360

AUGUST 5, 2024

employees shouldn't be able to seek punitive damages available under California law while having Massachusetts law otherwise govern liability for their myriad civil claims, the e-commerce giant is arguing. Married Massachusetts bloggers who were stalked and terrorized by eBay Inc.

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Law 360

JUNE 2, 2022

A California state jury awarded more than $460 million, including $440 million in punitive damages, to two former Southern California Edison workers who say they were retaliated against for reporting sexual and racial harassment, attorneys for the workers announced Thursday.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A California federal jury ruled Thursday that Dow Chemical and PPG Industries jointly owe the city of Modesto $4 million to clean up dry cleaning chemicals they produced that contaminated city land, and concluded Dow must face possible punitive damages.

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Law 360

AUGUST 9, 2021

A California appellate court Monday rejected Monsanto's bid to overturn an $87 million award and trial win for a couple who claimed glyphosate in Roundup weedkiller gave them cancer, with one judge largely concurring but dissenting as to the "grossly excessive" punitive damages.

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Law 360

APRIL 3, 2023

A California federal jury on Monday ordered Tesla to pay $175,000 in noneconomic damages and $3 million in punitive damages to a Black ex-subcontractor who was harassed and subjected to racial slurs, capping a damages retrial that began after the overseeing judge threw out a prior $137 million verdict as excessive.

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 21, 2024

Horvitz & Levy partner Curt Cutting, the primary writer for the firm’s “ California Punitive Damages ” blog, will be filling in. Starting tomorrow, I’ll be away until a few days after Labor Day. But blogging might be lighter than usual.

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JayS.Rothman&Associates

MAY 1, 2022

In California, employees are protected from sexual harassment in the workplace by the Fair Employment and Housing Act (“FEHA”) (Labor Code secs. as well as general damages for any mental anguish, emotional distress, or other pain and suffering. In addition, punitive damages are available if the additional elements of Cal.

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At the Lectern

MARCH 22, 2023

Horvitz & Levy partner Curt Cutting, the primary writer for the Horvitz & Levy blog “ California Punitive Damages ” will be filling in. Starting tomorrow, I’ll be away for a little while. But blogging might be lighter than usual.

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Law 360

JUNE 14, 2022

A California federal jury on Tuesday found that Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. 30 million for knowingly stealing Oracle's customers by offering software updates that ripped off Oracle's copyrights, but concluded that HPE was not liable for punitive damages. owed Oracle Corp. $30

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Law 360

AUGUST 22, 2023

A Colorado biotech company must face a lawsuit by a co-founder of a firm the biotech company bought in a $35 million deal, a California federal judge ruled Monday despite tossing the co-founder's bid for exemplary and punitive damages, as well claims against unknown defendants.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A California federal jury awarded Monster Energy Co. nearly $293 million and teed up possible enhanced and punitive damages Thursday after finding Vital Pharmaceuticals Inc.

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Law 360

JANUARY 19, 2022

Tesla won't get a new trial after a jury awarded $137 million to a Black ex-subcontractor who was harassed and subjected to racial slurs on the job, a California federal judge indicated on Wednesday, but the judge said he's "troubled" by the "extremely high" emotional distress award and punitive damages.

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At the Lectern

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Punitive damages reversal. A divided Second District, Division Eight, published opinion overturned a $3,000,000 punitive award against the supplier of talc with asbestos fibers that was found to be a cause of the plaintiff’s mesothelioma. Tirado (2022) 12 Cal.5th The court denied review in McNeal v.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

JANUARY 26, 2023

” ( Complaint , paragraph 13) Alleging, among other things, negligence, breach of the lease, and a constructive eviction, Jin seeks to recover general, special damages, exemplary and punitive damages, together with an award of her fees and costs. Complaint, preamble.) .” Posner ~ Complaint

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Legal Writing Launch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Legal professionals must follow standard conventions, often dictated by specific style guides like The Bluebook or the California Style Manual. Example: $1,000 or One thousand dollars ($1,000) (It is interesting that both The Blue Book and the California Style Manual are silent on this point.

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Whether a supermajority is necessary to approve a tax increase by an initiative rather than by a governmental body is a question left open by the 2017 5-2 decision in California Cannabis Coalition v. The partial dissent found the punitive damages to be “grossly excessive.” City of Upland (2017) 3 Cal.5th

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At the Lectern

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The opinion reversed an award, including $2,500,000 in punitive damages, against an insurance company regarding the sale of the company’s annuity, because, the appellate court concluded, the person who sold the annuity was not the company’s agent. See here.). The court denied review in Linovitz Capo Shores LLC v.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

million in damages (which was reduced to $678,302 on appeal) and $16.8 million in punitive damages (which was reduced to approximately $4.1 (It should be noted, however, that in 1974, the ability to locate marks that were in use, but were not registered, was far more limited than today.) In any event, a jury awarded Big O $2.8

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Superior Court , where review was granted in September to decide if Government Code section 818 , which bars punitive damages against government defendants, precludes recovery under Code of Civil Procedure section 340.1 , subdivision (b), which permits an award of up to treble damages after a child is sexually abused as a result of a cover up.

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At the Lectern

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

concerning California’s whistleblower statute. ” Justices Goodwin Liu and Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar recorded dissenting votes from the denial of review in Stand Up for California! State of California. The court agreed to hear People ex rel. Garcia-Brower v. Kolla’s Inc. ” (Link added.)

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JonathanTurley

MAY 8, 2023

The jury in June 2019 awarded the Gibsons $44 million in compensatory and punitive damages. Feminist studies associate professor Mireille Miller-Young was sentenced for criminally assaulting pro-life advocates on campus at the University of California – Santa Barbara. A judge later reduced the award to $25 million.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A 25-person legal technology company in California is fighting back against one of the world’s largest law firms in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea.

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The Fashion Law

JUNE 29, 2021

Amid escalating behind-the-scenes tensions, Skechers filed suit against adidas in February , asking a California federal court to declare that despite adidas’s claims of infringement, it has not run afoul of the notoriously litigious German sportswear giant’s 3-stripe trademark by way of its 4-stripe Goldie-Peaks shoe. Crew’s mark.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Like the district court, the Ninth Circuit rejected an argument that the regulations were a “project” subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) because the rules could impact the environment by increasing “deadhead” trips to and from the airport. 1:20-cv-00056 (D.D.C. Union of Concerned Scientists v. 19-1230 (D.C.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The causes of action in the suit include strict product liability and negligence, and specifically addresses the following questions of law: whether Facebook (i.e. ” Plaintiffs demand a jury trial.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A California state jury on Thursday awarded a former head of Farmers Insurance's in-house legal services $150 million in punitive damages, in addition to his $5.4 million compensatory damages, after finding that his role as a potential witness in a settled sex bias suit from female Farmers attorneys motivated his firing.

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Law 360

JUNE 1, 2022

A California judge slashed the damages awarded to a Farmers Insurance in-house attorney who said his potential role in a sex bias suit got him fired, saying the $150 million punitive damages award was way too high.

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