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“Special interests have consistently refused to accept the overwhelming desire of drivers to remain independent since it doesn’t fit their political agenda," Lyft driver Jimmy Strano said in a statement, adding that he was confident the court would reject the suit. Proposition 22 passed in Novem...
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Several lawsuits challenging the proposition were filed. Although the ban was upheld by the California Supreme Court in May 2009, it was ultimately overturned in 2013, following a Supreme Court ruling that effectively let stand a federal district court’s ruling that Proposition 8 was ...
This creates a perverse incentive for employers who want to fire employees: they can avoid wrongful termination lawsuits if they can somehow get the employees to quit first.141 To combat this problem, courts in California have adopted the doctrine of constructive discharge. Constructive discharge...
Multiple lawsuits are alleging negligence by at least two public utilities in Southern California. More than a dozen victims of the Palisades Fire are suing the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, alleging water supply failures added to the damage from the blaze. The department cited "unpr...
“Bayer AG, after more than a year of talks, agreed to pay as much as $10.9 billion to settle close to 100,000 U.S. lawsuits claiming that its widely-used weed killer Roundup caused cancer, resolving litigation that has pummeled the company’s share price,”Reuters reports. ...
Reportedly the largest employment verdict of the year, it was the first of 40 similar lawsuits against the mega-chain slated for trial?and the first time punitive damages were sought and awarded in an action for meal and rest-break violations. The case, decided in December 2005, affects at...
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During that time, he made headlines for filing many lawsuits against then-President Donald Trump’s administration, including one that blocked Trump’s first travel ban targeting people from majority Muslim nations. Ferguson’s win is a blow for Republicans, who ...