www.pooleshaffery.com Poole Shaffery & Koegle, LLP, a full service business law firm, focuses on the following areas of law: Business Law Business and Commercial Litigation Employment Law Environmental Law Business Succession Planning + Trust Administration General Counsel Services Premises Liability Product Liability Trucking & Transportation Real Estate Transactions Cyber Security, Data Breach & Internet Privacy		Issue 64 | December 2021 United States Solicitor General’s Office to Weigh in on California Trucking Association’s Challenge to California’s AB 5 Law In a case that we have been following closely, November held another twist in the storyline of the California Trucking Association’s (“CTA”) challenge to California’s AB 5 law as applied to motor carriers Click here to view the entire article By:  Kathleen “Katie” Simers The Empty Chair Defense – Non-Economic Damage Cases The strategy of so-called “empty chair defense” is self-explanatory – a defendant blames the so-called “empty chair” in the courtroom by arguing it was the third party who caused the plaintiff’s damages rather than the defendant sitting in the courtroom. Upon the passage of Proposition 51 in 1986, the empty chair defense gained teeth in lawsuits regarding primarily non-economic damages. Click here to view the entire article By:  Justin R. Wilmers Featured Verdict: Auto V. Pedestrian On October 22, 2020 the city of Sacramento agreed to the terms of an $11 million settlement with the family of decedent QuiChang Zhu, a 72 year old pedestrian who was killed after being struck by a vehicle driven by defendant Gurdeep Sidhu. Click here to view the entire article