Facebook, Inc. will pay a record-breaking $5 billion penalty, and submit to new restrictions and a modified corporate structure that will hold the company accountable for the decisions it makes about its users’ privacy, to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the company violated a 2012 FTC order by deceiving users about their ability to control the privacy of their personal information.

Health and Safety Code section 1418.8 (section 1418.8) sets forth procedures to be
followed for nursing home residents who lack capacity to make their own health care
decisions. Most of the affected residents are elderly, many are poor, and all may be
described as “unbefriended” in the sense they are without family members, friends or
other legal surrogates to make health care deci

In this putative class action, property inspectors allege they
were engaged by three “service” companies to perform inspections
for two major insurers. The inspectors allege they were in fact
employees of the insurers and service companies jointly, and were
entitled to but deprived of minimum wages, overtime, meal and
rest breaks, reimbursement of expenses, and accurate wage

A flying mattress made Mackenzie Baker-Smith swerve on
the freeway and crash at high speed. She sued a company for
failing to secure the mattress. The jury ruled against her, but
heard an incorrect jury instruction about negligence per se. This
doctrine presumes defendants are negligent if they violate a law.
A special exception excuses law violations if a defendant can
pro

This appeal arising from a mandamus action in the superior court presents novel
issues regarding the proper scope of judicial review of a school district's decision to deny
a petition to renew a charter school. Below, the trial court concluded it had to apply an
extremely deferential standard of review because it believed the governing board of the
Chino Valley Unified School Distr

This appeal arises from a wrongful death action brought by
Karen Hernandez and Sergio Saravia (appellants), the parents of
13-year-old Jonathan Hernandez, after Jonathan was struck and
killed by a school bus while riding his bicycle in Glendale. The
school bus was owned by defendant and respondent First
Student, Inc., and driven by defendant and respondent Barbara
Calderon.