Another Ex-SpaceX Worker Takes Legal Action Against Supposed Labor Law Violations
On August 12, 2014, nonentity rocket maker and sweetheart of the profitable space industry SpaceX was confronting another lawsuit over its labor procedures. In the second of two claims filed in Los Angeles County a week ago, a previous worker claimed that the rocket producer breached state labor laws by refusing employees breaks and expecting […]
Apple Confronts California Class Action Claim for Meal Breaks, Unpaid Wages
On July 26, 2014, a California state court had allowed the class documentation to about 21,000 Apple workers presently and previously retained by the Cupertino-based corporation. The lawsuit was subject to claims that the corporation had refused their workers with appropriate meal and rest breaks and still the opportune delivery of their most recent paychecks. […]
California Caregivers Take Legal against Their Employer for Wage Violations
On June 18, 2014 in California, trained caregivers filed a class action claim on behalf of many employees all over the state. They stated their employer, Kindred Healthcare and its partners, cheated them on earnings, overtime, and breaks. Ginger Rogers, a caregiver for twenty-five years, stated that Kindred Healthcare employed her in 2012 to take […]
Court Says Employers Not Required to Make Certain Employees Go to Lunch
On April 12, 2012, The California Supreme Court decided that employers were not required to make certain employees take lawfully authorized lunch breaks in a case that had an effect on many companies and employees. The undisputed judgment arrived following the employees’ lawyer claiming that abuses were usual and common when corporations were not demanded […]
Judge Sets Asides False Advertising Lawsuit against Alki David in Michael Jackson Lawsuit
On September 17, 2014, billionaire and FilmOn founder Alki David achieved legal triumph when he persuaded a California federal judge to decline a false advertising claim that was relevant to what he stated throughout a CNN interview. This was the partial result of a fight over who owned rights to revive dead artists such as […]
Kohl’s Suffers Defeat in California False-Advertising Complaint
In May 2013, a federal California appeals court had re-established a false-advertising claim filed on Kohl’s Corporation. The action once to more permits a Los Angeles-area man and his attorney engage in a possible class-action claim that Kohl’s misleadingly represented products as being retailed at huge markdowns from the initial prices. In the continuing California […]
Justice Department Resolves Sex Discrimination Claim against California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
On April 16, 2014, the Justice Department stated that it had taken part in a settlement contract that, if the court approved it, will answer claims that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) victimized a staff member due to his gender in breach of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In […]
Hallie Von Rock Runs for Ronan
Aiman-Smith & Marcy is sponsoring Hallie Von Rock to represent us in the Boston Marathon on April 20, 2015. Hallie is taking this opportunity to raise funds for childhood cancer by supporting the Ronan Thompson Foundation. The Ronan Thompson Foundation is a non-profit organization fighting to find a cure for neuroblastoma. The Foundation is fundraising to […]
Sixty-Six-Year-Old Man Given $26 Million in Age Discrimination Claim against Staples
On February 27, 2014, in what a lawyer stated was the biggest reward of its type in Los Angeles legal history, a sixty-six-year-old man was given $26 million by a jury that decided he was victimized and harassed based on his age by his supervisors at Staples. A Los Angeles Superior Court jury considered for […]
PG&E Employee Collects $1 Million in Santa Cruz Wrongful Termination Claim
On December 16, 2013, a forty-four-year-old ex-PG&E power line worker was given over $1 million in a civil claim subsequent to making safety complaints and being dismissed in 2012. Live Oak resident Matthew Niswonger was employed by PG&E for nearly eight years. His crew was demanded to restore a broken electrical pole on Hihn Road […]