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A New Weapon In the Battle to Protect Against Stolen Trade Secrets - The 2016 "Defend Trade Secrets Act"
Employers have long been frustrated by the impacts of departing key employees who walk off with the corporate "gold" – customer lists, technical drawings, formulas and the like – and then set up shop down the street chasing the same customers, undercutting ...
Posted By Santa Clarita Attorney
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The CFPB Proposes Rule Prohibiting Arbitration Clauses - Hail to the Class Action Lawsuit
In October 2015, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it was considering proposing rules that would ban the use of arbitration clauses in financial agreements after it concluded that class litigations may benefit consumers ...
Posted By Santa Clarita Attorney
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Starbucks Corp., et al. Lose another Major Battle in Cancer Warning Case
Over the past several months Poole Shaffery has followed the lawsuit brought by the Council for Education and Research on Toxics ("CERT"), A.K.A. Raphael Metzger of the Metzger Law Group, against more than 90 coffee roasters and retailers alleging the ...
Posted By Los Angeles Attorney
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Component Parts Doctrine at Risk of Melting Away in California
The California Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in Ramos v. Brenntag Specialties, Inc. (2014) 224 Cal.App.4th 1239, review granted July 9, 2014 ( Ramos ) after granting review in a case involving the component parts doctrine. In Ramos , ...
Posted By Los Angeles Attorney
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