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UPDATE June 10, 2021: On June 9, 2021, the Board voted to withdraw the revised ETS that they approved on June 3, 2021 (expected to go into effect on June 15, 2021). This means that the original ETS will remain in effect for...
Our firm would like to congratulate five of our hardworking attorneys who have been named 2021 Southern California Rising Stars by Super Lawyers® in the following practice areas: Employment Litigation Defense Jason I. Bluver...
June 2, 2021
Ninth Circuit Restricts Scope of PAGA Claims in Federal Court and Clarifies California Wage Statement Requirements
On May 28, 2021, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals handed Walmart a groundbreaking win in a wage-and-hour class and California Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”) action. Reversing a nearly $102...
June 1, 2021
Bad Faith Refusal to Settle: Anatomy of a Claim and a Possible New Paradigm Under California Law
Jared De Jong, a partner in the firm’s Irvine office, will be part of a live webinar sponsored by the Orange County Bar Association’s Business Litigation and Insurance Law Sections. The program will address legal...
May 25, 2021
Santa Clara County Employers: A Three-Step Guide to Tracking Individuals’ Vaccination Status
Update: On June 21, 2021, Santa Clara County updated its Order of the Health Officer to lessen the burden on employers regarding obtaining certifications of vaccination status. Employers must now require all personnel to...
California Trucking Association v. Bonta, No. 20-55106, 2021 WL 1656283 (9th Cir. Apr. 28, 2021) Summary: The Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act does not preempt the “ABC test” for determining whether...
The Texas Supreme Court recently increased policyholders’ influence over an insurer’s right to settle a third-party claim for less than policy limits. Insurers have long enjoyed a nearly absolute right to settle claims,...
More than a year after COVID-19 was deemed a pandemic, employers are transitioning greater numbers of employees back to the workplace. As organizations return their workforce to the office, it is important to have the right...
April 28, 2021
Ninth Circuit Joins California Court of Appeal in Rejecting FAAAA Preemption of AB 5 as Applied to Motor Carriers
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held today that the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994 (“FAAAA”) does not preempt application of California’s Assembly Bill 5 (“AB 5”), codified as amended...
On April 16, 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 93 into law. The bill requires employers in specified hospitality and business services-related industries to offer to rehire certain workers who were laid off during the...
Clark v. Superior Court., No. D077711, 2021 WL 1050057 (Cal. Ct. App. Mar. 19, 2021) Summary: Employee exhausted her administrative remedies despite failing to identify her employer’s proper legal name in her DFEH...
One year after COVID caused companies to send droves of employees home to work remotely, how well did those employees do at protecting their clients’ and their company’s confidential information and what can they do...