Bethany and James Modisette, along with their daughter Isabella, sued Apple Inc.
after they were seriously injured, and their daughter Moriah was killed, when a driver
using the FaceTime application on his iPhone crashed into their car on a Texas highway.
The trial court sustained Apple’s demurrer to the Modisettes’ first amended complaint
and dismissed the action. The Modisettes a

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

California law provides that the death penalty shall be inflicted by either lethal gas
or by “an intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a lethal quantity sufficient
to cause death, by standards established under the direction of the Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation.” (Pen. Code, § 3604, subd. (a).)1
The question in this
case is whether that statute i

In this wage and hour class and representative action, the trial court granted a
motion for summary judgment brought by defendant AMN Services, LLC (AMN), and
denied motions for summary adjudication of one cause of action and one affirmative
defense brought by plaintiff Kennedy Donohue, individually and on behalf of five
certified plaintiff classes she represents (together Plaintif

The California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District recently rejected
various constitutional challenges to Senate Bill No. 277. (Brown v. Smith (2018) 24
Cal.App.5th 1135 [rejecting claims Sen. Bill No. 277 violated four provisions of the
California Constitution: the free exercise of religion, the right to a public education,
equal protection, and substantive due process].) S