With lawmakers preparing to act on bills left open before the summer recess, concerns continue about additional mandates on businesses trying to stay open amid the new surge in coronavirus cases.
As more California residents get vaccinated against COVID-19, questions continue about which mandates cover how employers can determine whether employees are vaccinated or not.
Ian C. Ballon, JD, LLM, CIPP/US, Kevin M. Scott, CIPP/US, and Darren Abernethy, CIPP/US, CIPP/A, CIPP/C. CIPP/E, CIPP/G, CIPM, CIPT of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP spoke at the 2021 Privacy + Security Forum Spring Academy to held May 24 – 26.
As the state implements more sick leave requirements for businesses amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the new SB 95 mandate incorporates a number of new provisions for which an employee is entitled to the leave.
BakerHostetler announced that the firm launched its 15th national office in San Francisco, California, with the addition of Robb Adkins, who joins the firm’s White Collar, Investigations and Securities Enforcement and Litigation team.
STANFORD – While business interests have denounced the recent passage of Assembly Bill 5, a measure that would seek to bring changes to the ability of businesses to designate workers as independent contractors, William Gould, a Stanford law professor and expert on the gig economy, believes that this change will bring more good than harm to the state of California and workers there.
The following cases categorized as "fraud" cases were on the docket in the Superior Court of California for San Francisco County on July 24. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The Superior Court of California for San Francisco County reported the following activities in the suit brought by Arturo Devesa against Debra Zumwalt, Felix J Baker, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Mary T Barra, Randy Livingston, Robert Wallace, Sabrina Liang, Stanford Management Company, Stanford University, Susan Weinstein, Suzanne Fletcher and The Board of Trustees on July 24:
SAN FRANCISCO – The recent discovery of bribing scandals involving wealthy parents and prestigious educational institutions has had a new development as students have filed a lawsuit against the institutions over allegations that the admissions process was unfair.
SAN FRANCISCO – A group of students who claim they weren't given a fair chance in getting admitted to their colleges of choice blame the well-publicized bribery scandal in a lawsuit filed in federal court on March 13.
ALAMEDA – A witness for the defense, a pulmonologist, said Tuesday that plaintiff Terry Leavitt was one of those unlucky people who developed mesothelioma “spontaneously” for no known reason and not from baby powder made by Johnson & Johnson.
SACRAMENTO - California's two U.S. Senators reacted with anger over the nomination by the White House of three individuals to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys defending Johnson & Johnson rested their case Wednesday after portraying Carolyn Weirick as a victim of bad luck in contracting mesothelioma, not from the baby powder she claimed in her lawsuit contained asbestos and gave her the rare and deadly disease.
Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli announced that Darren Donnelly has joined the firm’s Silicon Valley office as a principal in its Intellectual Property Department.
SAN JOSE – A federal judge has dismissed an age discrimination lawsuit against Stanford University because the plaintiff failed to state "a plausible claim."
SAN FRANCISCO -- A court record dated Feb. 22 addresses a discrimination lawsuit that seems somewhat normal but, on closer inspection, offers some interesting omissions.
