Gering, NE - Collections Attorney, collect a debt

The City of Scottsbluff provided sewer services to a property located on Highland Road. The “Service Start Up” request
for the property was introduced at trial as an exhibit and purports to bear the signature of Singh as the “Authorized Person”
requesting the service. Singh testified he did not sign the service request applicatio... More...   $0 (09-29-2020 - NE)

Appellants Corinna Reyes and Golden State Care Collective, Inc. (together,
“Reyes” or “appellants”), filed a complaint for malicious prosecution against property
owner Kim Kruger and Kim Kruger Trust (together, Kruger) and Kruger’s former
attorney, Todd Rothbard (Rothbard), for what Reyes contended was a wrongful eviction.
The trial court granted Kruger’s and Rothbard’s (together, ... More...   $0 (09-28-2020 - CA)

St. Louis, MO - Criminal Law, wire fraud

The United States of America charged Abayomi Martin, age 43, with one count of wire fraud relative to a scheme to defraud and obtain money from Dallas Cowboy’s player Brandon Carr.

Martin solicited an investment from Brandon Carr for a purported part ownership in a clothing company known as Famous Nobodys. Martin falsely represented to C... More...   $0 (09-19-2020 - )

California’s Uniform Trade Secrets Act allows courts to award reasonable attorney
fees and costs to the “prevailing party” in certain cases involving bad faith claims. (Civ.
Code, § 3426.4.)1
The issue here concerns the ownership of fees awarded under this
statute. Is the prevailing litigant (here, The Johnson Group Staffing Company, Inc.) or
the prevailing litigant’s attorney... More...   $0 (09-19-2020 - CA)

The plaintiff in this matter, Parkford Owners for a Better Community (Parkford),
appeals from a judgment entered in favor of defendants, Placer County and Placer County
Community Development Resource Agency (collectively, the County), and real parties in
interest, Silversword Properties, LLC (Silversword), K.H. Moss Company, and Moss
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Equity (collectively, Moss). Silversword ... More...   $0 (09-17-2020 - CA)

Over the course of approximately 16 years, respondents
Neal Moritz and Neal H. Moritz, Inc. (collectively, Moritz) worked
for appellants, Universal City Studios LLC and its wholly-owned
subsidiary, FFSO Productions LLC (collectively, Universal),
rendering services as a producer for the film The Fast and the
Furious (Universal Pictures 2001) and several sequels thereto
(coll... More...   $0 (09-03-2020 - CA)

Section 7031 of the Business and Professions Code1 was enacted to
deter unlicensed building contractors by (1) preventing them from
bringing or maintaining an action to collect compensation for
performance of any work for which a license is required (§ 7031, subd.
(a)), and (2) allowing any person who utilizes the services of an
unlicensed contractor to bring an action for disg... More...   $0 (08-30-2020 - CA)

An employee signed an acknowledgment of receipt of the
employee handbook. In it, he agreed he was bound by the
provisions of the handbook, and it was his responsibility to read
and familiarize himself with all its provisions. The handbook
contained an agreement to arbitrate disputes. The employer did
not highlight or otherwise call the employee’s attention to the
arbitratio... More...   $0 (08-28-2020 - CA)

Plaintiff Angela Bolger bought a replacement laptop computer battery
on Amazon, the popular online shopping website operated by defendant
Amazon.com, LLC. The Amazon listing for the battery identified the seller as
“E-Life,” a fictitious name used on Amazon by Lenoge Technology (HK) Ltd.
(Lenoge). Amazon charged Bolger for the purchase, retrieved the laptop
battery from its loc... More...   $0 (08-16-2020 - CA)

Plaintiff and appellant Virginia M. Arnold appeals from summary judgment in
favor of her employer, defendant and respondent Dignity Health (Dignity) and other
individually named defendants.
Arnold, an African-American woman who was employed as a medical assistant,
alleged defendants engaged in discrimination, harassment, and retaliation based on her
age and her association with... More...   $0 (08-15-2020 - CA)

This appeal is from a dismissal following a sustained demurrer in plaintiffs’
taxpayer suit against the Orange County District Attorney and the Orange County Sheriff.
The complaint seeks injunctive relief to prohibit the operation of an alleged unlawful
confidential informant program (CI program). The trial court ruled that plaintiffs, who
are residents and taxpayers of Orange Coun... More...   $0 (08-13-2020 - CA)

Santa Cruz County law enforcement officers seized more than 2,000 marijuana
plants from a medical marijuana dispensary for violating a local ordinance restricting
cannabis cultivation. When the dispensary sued to recover the marijuana, the county
asserted it had no obligation to return the plants since the dispensary violated the
ordinance. The trial court agreed and sustained the ... More...   $0 (08-06-2020 - CA)

The Icee Company and J & J Snack Foods Corp. (collectively, Icee) appeal the
trial court’s order denying their motion to compel arbitration of a dispute with a former
employee. The employee, Taraun Collie, alleged a single cause of action against Icee
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under the Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (PAGA). (Lab. Code, § 2698 et seq.)1
We hold that under Iskanian v. CLS Transp... More...   $0 (07-21-2020 - CA)