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Recent News About California Supreme Court
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Menlo Park attorney faces disbarment over 2015 domestic violence incident
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) – Menlo Park attorney Imran A. Khaliq faces possible disbarment following a recently announced California State Bar Court recommendation over the assault of his girlfriend in 2015. -
State Bar Court recommends Citrus Heights attorney be disbarred over unauthorized 'loan'
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) — Citrus Heights attorney Rita M. Lingwood faces possible disbarment following a recently announced California State Bar Court recommendation regarding a $60,000 loan to herself in 2016 from a family trust she had prepared. -
West Sacramento attorney, 'vexatious litigant' faces possible disbarment
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) — West Sacramento attorney Archibald Robert Cunningham faces disbarment following a recently announced California State Bar Court recommendation. -
Champs Foundation founder, longtime president faces possible disbarment
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) — Fremont attorney Kurt Kevin Robinson, founder of a San Jose nonprofit for underprivileged youth, faces possible disbarment following a recently announced California State Bar Court recommendation regarding 14 counts of misconduct in two separate matters. -
State bar court recommends Long Beach attorney's disbarment
SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) — Long Beach attorney Bruce Joseph Tackowiak faces possible disbarment following a recently announced California State Bar Court recommendation over allegations arising from two client matters. -
California Supreme Court ruling supports Toyota in vehicle stability control case
SAN FRANCISCO – Toyota has won an appeal regarding a safety feature in one of its pickup truck models. -
California Supreme Court affirms decision to deny law firm's arbitration award
SAN FRANCISCO – The California Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court's decision to deny an arbitration award to a law firm that was in a dispute with a pipe maker. -
Appeals court wants California Supreme Court to answer "public works" question in wage dispute
SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed off to the California Supreme Court a case concerning the definition of “public works” in the California Labor Code. -
Snowboarder whose leg was amputated after accident with snowcat appeals to California Supreme Court
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – A Saugus, California, woman whose leg was amputated in an accident while snowboarding at Mammoth Mountain Ski Area in Mammoth Lakes is appealing the loss of her lawsuit. -
Supreme Court denies petition for rehearing in Starbucks wage-and-hour case
The California Supreme Court modified slightly the wording of a July 26 opinion, but denied the rehearing petition in a case involving a Starbucks shift supervisor who claimed he was not paid for regular off-the-clock work. -
Supreme Court rules that consumer reporting agencies can comply with two laws without violation
SAN FRANCISCO – California's highest court upheld a judgment that the Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act is not rendered unconstitutionally vague in certain instances and remanded it for further proceedings. -
State Supreme Court says interest rates can be ruled unconscionable on high-risk loans of $2,500 or more
SAN FRANCISCO – The California Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of the plaintiffs regarding a the question of whether interest rates may be ruled unconscionable on loans of $2,500 or more. -
Court certifies Walmart wage action, Supreme Court decision not in play, yet
LOS ANGELES - Walmart current and former workers have won class certification in California over claims the giant retail company failed to pay wages when they were off the clock but on the premises. -
Starbucks requests rehearing following Supreme Court 'off the clock' wage decision
The state Supreme Court, in a July 26 opinion, said the federal "de minimis" is not applicable to California's wage and hours laws. -
California State Bar Court recommends disbarment for Auburn attorney
SAN FRANCISCO — Auburn attorney Wendell Dean Peters faces disbarment following a California State Bar Court recommendation over fifteen counts of misconduct in two consolidated notices of disciplinary action -
Alameda attorney faces disbarment after allegedly misappropriating $28,350
SAN FRANCISCO — Alameda attorney Mogeeb Weiss faces disbarment following a California State Bar Court recommendation over eight counts of misconduct. -
Restore Hetch Hetchy vows to take Sierra Canyon restoration case to California Supreme Court
FRESNO — A Berkeley environmental group that wants the Hetch Hetchy reservoir in northwestern Yosemite drained to restore the Sierra Canyon has vowed to take the case to the California Supreme Court after losing an appeal in July. -
DUGGAN LAW CORPORATION: California Supreme Court: The Federal De Minimis Rule Does Not Apply In California Wage Cases
May employers ask workers to perform brief, minor tasks while off the clock? -
DeMaio defends Prop B following Supreme Court ruling on public employee union measure
A prominent San Diego politician promised a vigorous fight to defend a 2012 measure that cut workers' retirement benefits following a California Supreme Court ruling sending the matter back to a lower court.
