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In Ixchel Pharma, LLC v. Biogen, Inc., S256927, 2020 WL 4432623 (Cal. Aug. 3, 2020) (“Ixchel Pharma”), the Supreme Court of California clarified two points: (1) that to state a claim for interference with an at-will...

Freedom of contract is broad. Parties have many options when divvying up rights and duties pursuant to a written contract. Remedies can be limited; damages can be liquidated. One option is an indemnity...

On July 24, 2020, California released the Employer Playbook for a Safe Reopening. The Employer Playbook provides detailed information for employers in an easy-to-read checklist format. The majority of the document is...

Update: On August 31, 2020, the Blueprint for Safer Economy replaced the County Monitoring List for determining what businesses can and cannot open. The Blueprint utilizes a more user friendly four-tiered color system (i.e.,...

Update: On August 3, 2020, the California Department of Public Health explained how an elementary school (i.e., transitional kindergarten to 6th grade) may be considered for a waiver to re-open in-person instruction. The...

Update: On August 31, 2020, the Blueprint for Safer Economy replaced the County Monitoring List for determining what businesses can and cannot open. The Blueprint utilizes a more user friendly four-tiered color system (i.e.,...

Since 1991 the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, or TCPA, has regulated robocalls, which are loosely defined as calls or texts using automatic telephone dialing systems (a/k/a an “autodialer”). In 2015, Congress excluded...

Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, 140 S. Ct. 1731 (2020)  Summary: Title VII prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Read our in-depth...

In Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru, 591 U.S. ___, 2020 WL 3808420 (2020) (“Morrissey-Berru”), the United States Supreme Court provided further guidance on the application of the “ministerial...

In David v. Queen of the Valley Medical Center (QVMC), 2020 WL 3529683 (certified for publication Cal. Ct. App. June 30, 2020), the employer’s legally compliant policies were crucial in getting the California Court of...

Payne & Fears’ San Francisco Managing Partner Leila Narvid has been selected to the 2020 Northern California Super Lawyers®  list for her excellent work in the legal community. Super Lawyers is an annual...

Los Angeles County has been the epicenter of COVID-19 in California, and it is only getting worse. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LA Department of Public Health) recently announced that daily...