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2021
- March
- February
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January
- FEATURED SETTLEMENT - EMPLOYMENT LAW
- EMPLOYMENT OFFERS CONDITIONED ON DRUG TESTS
- THREE NEW EMPLOYMENT LAWS COMPANIES NEED TO BE AWARE OF IN 2021
- FEATURED VERDICT- AUTO V. PEDESTRIAN
- CATEGORICAL DENIAL: THE STATUTORY DOCUMENT PRODUCTION REQUIREMENT CHANGES A YEAR LATER
- CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT CLARIFIES HEARSAY RESTRICTIONS UNDER PEOPLE V. SANCHEZ
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2020
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December
- FEATURED SETTLEMENT-EMPLOYMENT LAW
- FEATURED SETTLEMENT-EMPLOYMENT LAW
- IMPORTANCE OF CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENTS
- IMPORTANCE OF CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENTS
- CALIFORNIA COURT UPHOLDS LAW MAKING IT HARDER FOR TRUCKERS TO BE CLASSIFIED AS INDEPENDENT EMPLOYEES
- SOCIAL HOST LIABILITY – A HOLIDAY SPECIAL
- A STRATEGY FOR COMBATTING NUCLEAR VERDICTS IN THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY
- NO TRUCKING PREEMPTION FOR THE ABC TEST
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November
- PROP 65 – CALIFORNIA’S ADDITION OF THC AND THE UNREFINED NATURE OF DISPENSARY BUSINESSES
- $200 MILLION LATER AND PROP 22 RECEIVES VOTER APPROVAL
- EMPLOYMENT LAW UPDATE (PART 2): COVID-19 AND A BUSY LEGISLATIVE SESSION MAKE FOR A TOUGH ROAD AHEAD FOR CALIFORNIA BUSINESSES
- FEATURED SETTLEMENT- DANGEROUS CONDITION OF PUBLIC PROPERTY
- FEATURED VERDICT: TOXIC TORT
- RISING VERDICTS LIKELY TO RESULT IN RISING INSURANCE PREMIUMS
- THE NOTORIOUS AB 5 DRIVES ON
- October
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September
- Themis Webinar: How 2020 is Shaping the Future of Jury Trials
- FREE TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR SCVEDC'S UPCOMING VIRTUAL ECONOMIC OUTLOOK WEBINAR
- CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE SENDS THE “RIGHT TO RECALL” BILL TO THE GOVERNOR’S
- THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA MOVES TO ALLOW ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS (ADU) ON ALMOST EVERY RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY
- MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT GRANTED AGAINST METZGER UPHELD ON APPEAL
- PROP 65 – CALIFORNIA’S GIFT TO PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEYS
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August
- FREE TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR SCVEDC'S UPCOMING VIRTUAL ECONOMIC OUTLOOK WEBINAR
- WHAT BUSINESS OWNERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TRADEMARKS
- ASSET PROTECTION AND THE ENTREPRENEUR: HINDSIGHT IS SADLY ALWAYS 20/20
- FEATURED APPELLATE DECISION - TOXIC TORT
- PROPOSITION 65: WHEN NOT BEING ON THE LIST IS A GOOD THING
- LIEN BASED MEDICAL DAMAGES: THE EVOLVING CASE LAW
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July
- THEMIS TRANSPORTATION PRACTICE GROUP WEBINAR INVITE: LIEN BASED MEDICAL DAMAGES
- TAKING COVID-19 RELATED WITHDRAWALS FROM RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS
- TAKING COVID-19 RELATED WITHDRAWALS FROM RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS
- GOVERNOR’S LATEST SHUTDOWN ORDER LEAVES CALIFORNIA SMALL BUSINESS SCRAMBLING
- SIDEBAR SPECIAL EDITION
- TOXIC TORT: COFFEE ACRYLAMIDE CASE SENT BACK TO JUDGE WHO FOUND THAT COFFEE INDUSTRY FAILED TO PROVE SAFE-ALTERNATIVE
- LIMITING TRUCK DRIVER LIABILITY – THE SUDDEN EMERGENCY DOCTRINE
- ONGOING UNCERTAINTY REGARDING PERSONAL JURISDICTION FOR NATIONWIDE CLASS ACTIONS
- TRUCKING VERDICTS INCREASE EXPONENTIALLY
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June
- CALIFORNIA COURTS EXPAND GROUNDS FOR EMPLOYEES TO BRING WRONGFUL TERMINATION CLAIMS
- CIVIL IMMUNITY IN THE ERA OF COVID-19
- CORPORATE MEETINGS AND SOCIAL DISTANCING
- TRAFFIC COLLISION ON THE CLOCK! IS THE EMPLOYER LIABLE?
- TOXIC TORT: CALIFORNIA COURTS BEGIN TO REOPEN AND HOW COVID-19 MAY IMPACT JUROR DECISION-MAKING
- May
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April
- BREAKING NEWS – HOW THE FAMILIES FIRST CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE ACT AFFECTS YOUR BUSINESS
- BREAKING NEWS -- COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ISSUES “SAFER AT HOME” ORDER FOR COVID-19
- **UPDATE** -- CALIFORNIA ISSUES UPDATED LIST OF EXEMPTED BUSINESSES FROM STATEWIDE “STAY AT HOME” ORDER
- **UPDATE** DEPARTMENT OF LABOR ISSUES NEW GUIDANCE FOR EMPLOYERS TO COMPLY WITH FFCRA
- FORCE MAJEURE! WHATEVER THAT MEANS.
- WHAT BUSINESSES NEED TO DO TO PREPARE FOR POST PANDEMIC DISPUTES
- AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES AND CALIFORNIA STATE REGULATION
- EFFECT OF COVID-19 ON CALIFORNIA COURTS
- TRUCKERS….KEEPING THE ECONOMY MOVING
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March
- DOMINO’S PIZZA ADA WEBSITE ACCESS APPEAL UNSUCCESSFUL
- ANOTHER BITE AT [THE] APPLE: COMPENSABLE TIME FOR ALL HOURS WORKED
- NUCLEAR VERDICTS: BLOWING UP THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY ONE VERDICT AT A TIME
- SB41 SIGNED INTO LAW; BARRING CALIFORNIA COURTS FROM CALCULATING TORT DAMAGES BASED ON RACE, ETHNICITY AND GENDER
- February
- January
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December
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2019
- December
- November
- October
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September
- PERSONAL INJURY: PROTECTING THE DEEP POCKET- A QUICK OVERVIEW OF PROPOSITION 51 AND ITS EFFECT ON CURRENT LITIGATION
- TRANSPORTATION: FMSCA UPGRADES DRIVER TRAINING REGULATION FOR CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF DRIVERS
- POOLE & SHAFFERY WINS SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN FAVOR OF SUPPLIER DEFENDANT
- POOLE & SHAFFERY WINS SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN FAVOR OF SUPPLIER DEFENDANT
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August
- WORKPLACE INJURY SETTLEMENT: PAVING FOREMAN GRANTED $1.2 MILLION IN SETTLEMENT AFTER BEING RUN OVER BY COMMERCIAL TRUCKE INJURY
- TOXIC TORTS: CA COURT GRANTS MONSANTO NEW TRIAL UNLESS PLAINTIFFS AGREE TO REDUCE $2 BILLION AWARD TO $86.7 MILLION
- TRANSPORTATION: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR OFFERS GUIDANCE FOR COMPENSATING DRIVERS FOR TIME SPENT SLEEPING
- July
- June
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May
- BENZENE VERDICT: JURY AWARDS $21 MILLION TO TWO BROTHERS WHO WERE EXPOSED TO BENZENE AT TIRE FACTORY
- TRANSPORTATION LAW: ‘SWIFT’ RESPONSE TO DYNAMEX V. SUPERIOR COURT: TRUCKING GIANT REACHES $100M SETTLEMENT WITH ‘INDEPENDENT CON
- POOLE & SHAFFERY, LLP OBTAINS FAVORABLE TRANSPORTATION VERDICT
- TRANSPORTATION LAW: CALIFORNIA MEAL AND REST BREAKS PRE-EMPTED FOR INTERSTATE DRIVERS
- April
- March
- February
- January
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2018
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December
- Employment Law:California Employers Should Begin Bundling Up For A Long, Cold Winter
- Employment Law: How Will the November Elections Impact Business Issues in 2019?
- Business Law: How to... Spend All Your Money on Attorneys
- TOXIC TORT: California's Booming Pot Industry May Trigger New Wave of Prop. 65 Litigation
- TOXIC TORT: California Appellate Court Halts Prop. 65 Coffee Labeling Trial
- TOXIC TORT: Update on How the New Revisions for Proposition 65 Warnings
- November
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October
- Employment Law: Hold the Phone: Court of Appeal Rejects Employer Vicarious Liability for Employee's Off-Duty Driving Accident
- Securities Law: Do You Actually Tweet That?
- Employer Not Liable for Employee Driving Accident
- TOXIC TORT: Sherwin-Williams Petitions Supreme Court for Review of "Super Tort" Theory of Liability
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September
- Estate Planning: What Happens to Your Cryptocurrency When You Die?
- Poole Shaffery Congratulates Samuel R.W. Price on Being Elected to the San Fernando Valley Bar Association Board of Trustees
- Personal Injury Damages Update: California High Court Denies Review of Pebley v. Santa Clara Organics, LLC
- Asbestos Litigation: Proposed EPA Regulations Poised to Revive Use of Asbestos
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August
- Estate Planning: Properly Planning for Your Retirement Assets
- Corporate Law: "FTB/SOS SUSPENDED" - What Does That Mean?
- TOXIC TORT: Cell Phone Industry Handed Second Shot at Precluding Mandatory Cancer Warning On Cell Phones
- PERSONAL INJURY DAMAGES: ASCDC Files Petition for Review in Pebley v. Santa Clara Organics, LLC
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July
- Real Estate Law: What Is a New Tenant to Do?
- Data Privacy Law: The California Consumer Privacy Act is Coming! What You Need to Know to Protect Your Business
- Employment Law: New Laws Look to Expand Sexual Harassment Prevention Training
- Poole Shaffery Congratulates Lisa Odom on Being Named Board President of the Santa Clarita Non-Profit Single Mothers Outreach
- Personal Injury: State Courts Expand Role of Social Media in Litigation
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June
- Poole Shaffery Honored by City of Santa Clarita for Work with Local Business Incubator
- Employment Law: Significant Changes to Independent Contractor Classification in California
- Landlord-Tenant Law: What is the Costa-Hawkins Act and Will Rent Control Become a Local Land Issue Again?
- Damages: Lien In: How One CA Appellate Decision May Change The Damages Game In Personal Injury Cases
- Product Liability: Court of Appeals Overturns $151 Million Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson in Bellwether Case
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May
- EMPLOYMENT LAW: Is Your Website ADA Compliant?
- TRADEMARK LAW: Patent and Trademark Office Delivers Just What the Doctor Ordered
- CORPORATE/SECURITIES LAW: When is a Coin Really a Security?
- TOXIC TORTS: NEW JERSEY JURIES AWARD $117M IN TALC, $68M IN PELVIC MESH, NATIONAL TREND FOLLOWS SUIT
- Transportation Law: Orange County Bicyclist Settles for $9M Amidst National Report Finding Rise in Bicycle Pedestrian Fatalities
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April
- BUSINESS LAW: Own a Business? Here Are Five Reasons Why You Should Consider Having a Buy-Sell or Partnership Agreement.
- EMPLOYMENT LAW: Federal Court Lashes Out at Use of Prior Salary History for New Hires
- TRANSPORTATION LAW: SEEING GHOSTS: CORRELATING THE EFFECT OF 'GHOST BIKE' MEMORIALS ON A JURY POOL
- TOXIC TORTS: EXPERT TESTIMONY AGAINST TOXICITY OF POPULAR CHEMICAL IS "SHAKY"
- TOXIC TORTS: CALIFORNIA TO REQUIRE CANCER WARNING ON COFFEE
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March
- ESTATE PLANNING: Probate: What it is? When is it necessary? How to avoid it?
- EMPLOYMENT LAW: PAGA Actions: When is an Aggrieved Employee No Longer Aggrieved?
- EMPLOYMENT LAW: New California Employment Notices Required to be Posted in Your Business
- TRANSPORTATION: $7.8 MILLION VERDICT IN REAR END COLLISION CASE
- TRUCKING & TRANSPORTATION: PERSONAL INJURY LAWYERS SHOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO NEW TRUCKING REGULATIONS
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February
- INSURANCE LAW: California Supreme Court to Review Key Issue of Insurance Policy Exhaustion & Elective Stacking
- BUSINESS LAW: Prevailing Parties and Attorney's Fees
- TRANSPORTATION LAW: Utilities Commission Poised to Transfer Four Essential Functions to Other Agencies
- ASBESTOS LITIGATION: CA Appellate Court Deems Circumstantial Evidence Sufficient to Defeat Summary Judgment
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January
- EMPLOYMENT LAW: California's New Parental Leave Law
- BUSINESS LITIGATION: Managing Your Attorney in a Business Dispute
- TOXIC TORT: Monsanto Received Boost from EPA and JNCI Study Ahead of Crucial Daubert Hearing
- TRANSPORTATION: THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS FOR THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY IN THE AGE OF ELECTRONIC LOGS
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December
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2017
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December
- EMPLOYMENT LAW: Looking Ahead to 2018 - New Laws Affecting California Employers
- CYBER SECURITY: When the Cover Up Is Worse Than the Crime: Uber & the Consequences of Hiding a Data Breach
- MONSANTO FACES LEGAL CHALLENGES ON ITS POPULAR ROUNDUP HERBICIDE
- In Good Faith: The Expanding Bounds of the "Reasonable" Settlement Offer
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November
- BUSINESS LEASING: Let the Tenants Beware: Is Your Lease Really Standard?
- PERSONAL INJURY: Man Involved In Altercation with Bar Security Awarded $5 Million
- BUSINESS LAW: Are Online Legal Forms Really Cheaper - The Perils of Using Online Legal Forms
- Poole Shaffery congratulates John H. Shaffery on being included in the SFVBJ's Valley 200 List
- TOXIC TORT: Johnson & Johnson gets Judges to Toss a Total of $498 Million in Verdicts
- TRANSPORTATION: L.A. County Jury Awards Jaywalker $11 Million
- PERSONAL INJURY: Man Involved In Altercation with Bar Security Awarded $5 Million
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October
- REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS AND LITIGATION: THE CHALLENGES OF NEIGHBOR REAL ESTATE DISPUTES
- EMPLOYMENT LAW: A New Form of Liability for Electronic Communications Is Speeding Towards You
- TOXIC TORT: Battle of Experts in Starbucks Trial
- EMPLOYMENT LAW: Beyond Diaz v. Carcamo: The Diminishing Returns of Admitted Vicarious Liability
- TRANSPORTATION: School Bus Company Found Liable For Accident Directly Caused By Unrelated Third-Party
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September
- BUSINESS LAW: THE Importance Of Spousal Consent In TRANSACTIONS
- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: Trademarks Part IV
- The City of Santa Clarita is Launching a Business Incubator Program
- Not Up for Dispute: Videotape Evidence at Summary Judgment
- TOXIC TORT: Paint Makers Make Their Case to Reverse $1.15 Billion Verdict
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August
- TOXIC TORT: Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $417 Million by California Jury
- LABOR LAW: Blocked Department of Labor Overtime Rule Revisited
- LITIGATION: The Resurrection of California Courts' Broad Sanctioning Authority
- TOXIC TORT: Baby Powder Litigation: Talc of the Town
- TOXIC TORT: Take-Home Asbestos Liability Narrowed At Appellate Level
- July
- June
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May
- LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: California Legislature Will Impact Your Business More Than The Washington Noise
- EMPLOYMENT LAW: When Is an Employee's Resignation Not Really a "Resignation"
- TRUCKING & TRANSPORTATION: Driverless Vehicle Regulations Cruise Forward
- LITIGATION: Discovering Social Media
- TRUCKING & TRANSPORTATION: Driverless Vehicle Regulations Cruise Forward
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April
- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: Trademarks Part III
- EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION: Nine-Year Employment Lawsuit Against Motor Carrier Comes to an End
- P&S Attorney Michael S. Little Will be Featured Speaker on Cybersecurity on 4/21/17 at College of the Canyons!
- TOXIC TORTS: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back for Monsanto and Glyphosate
- TOXIC TORTS: Tough on Talcum-Court sets Preferential Trial Date For Talcum Case
- March
- February
- January
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December
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2016
- December
- November
- October
- September
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August
- California's Transfer on Death Deed: A Substitution For Traditional Estate Planning or a Problem Child in the Making?
- The Art of Correctly Classifying Workers
- Leave Home Without It: The Implications of Take-Home Asbestos Exposure Cases before the Supreme Court
- New Scientific Studies May Stir Up Trouble in Coffee Litigation
- July
- June
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May
- A New Weapon In the Battle to Protect Against Stolen Trade Secrets - The 2016 "Defend Trade Secrets Act"
- The CFPB Proposes Rule Prohibiting Arbitration Clauses - Hail to the Class Action Lawsuit
- Starbucks Corp., et al. Lose another Major Battle in Cancer Warning Case
- Component Parts Doctrine at Risk of Melting Away in California
- April
- March
- February
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2015
- December
- November
- October
- September
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August
- U.S. Department of Labor Proposes Change to Executive Exemption
- Emerging Battle Lines Are Being Drawn in the War for Coverage under Cyber Security Policies
- Plaintiffs' Failure to Discover Financial Condition of Correct Defendant Results in Loss of Punitive Damages Award
- Poole Shaffery Obtains Writ in Favor of Client
- July
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June
- Have You Funded Your Revocable Trust?
- Working for a Jerk Boss is Not a Disability
- Poole Shaffery Obtains another victory at trial
- Asbestos Bankruptcy Trust Transparency at the State Level
- New Questions Raised on the Health Impact of Exposure to Low Levels of Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, and Xylene
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April
- Data Breaches Involving Private Medical Information on the Rise
- The Resurrection of California Courts' Broad Sanctioning Authority
- The Hidden Value of Written Job Descriptions
- Occupational Exposure to Herbicide Glyphosate Linked to Development of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma By The World Health Organization
- Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency
- March
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February
- Government Affairs and Legislative Advocacy Can Help Your Business and Development (Even if it is Called Lobbying!)
- 2015 Business Law Statutes: Ex-Officio Directors, Notaries and More
- Metzger Diacetyl Defense Verdict Overturned on Appeal
- Clarifying the Duty Owed to Family Members in Take-Home Asbestos Cases
- January
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2014
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December
- IRS INCREASES MILEAGE REIMBURSEMENT RATES FOR BUSINESS TRAVEL
- A Crash Course in the American Grand Jury System
- Tread Lightly Through The Mine Field of Fitness for Duty
- Sony Hack a Reminder of the Potential Exposure Companies Face from Cyber Attacks
- A New Exception to the Statute Of Limitations in Toxic Exposure Cases
- Innovator Liability Stakes a Claim in Alabama
- November
- October
- September
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August
- ISO'S NEW DATA BREACH EXCLUSIONS HIGHLIGHT THE IMPORTANCE OF STANDALONE CYBER POLICIES
- POOLE & SHAFFERY, LLP OBTAINS FEDERAL COURT JUDGMENT AND PERMANENT INJUNCTION AGAINST CLIENT'S COMPETITOR FOR FALSE ADVERTISING
- Component Parts Doctrine Update
- Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment Decision of Two Asbestos Defendants and Reverses Decision as to Two Others
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July
- 2014 Poole Shaffery Super Lawyers!
- Asbestos Defendants May Owe Duty to Friends and Family
- High Court Allows Competitors to Bring Suit Against One Another for Unfair Competition Arising from Mislabeled Products
- Appellate Decision Favors Plaintiffs in Regards to Application of Component Parts Doctrine
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June
- LITIGANTS BARRED FROM HAVING THEIR CAKE AND EATING IT TOO
- WHAT IF THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO TAKE YOUR PROPERTY?
- FOR CALIFORNIA EMPLOYERS SILENCE IS GOLDEN
- Draft of the Federal Toxic Substances Control Act is Currently Under Discussion in Congress
- Dutch Health & Safety Committee Recommends Lower Benzene Limits
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December
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