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Bauman v. Chase Investment Services Corp.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
The district court's order denying plaintiff's motion to remand an action, brought in state court under the California Labor Code Private Attorneys...

Seahaus La Jolla Owners Association v. Superior Court

Civil Procedure, Construction, Evidence
A petition for writ of mandate after the superior court granted defendants' motion to compel discovery responses over petitioner-plaintiff's assertion...

D'Arrigo Bros. v. United Farmworkers of America

Agriculture, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
In an action for breach of contract against defendant which was representing plaintiff's agricultural workers, the trial court's order denying...

Executive Plaza, LLC v. Peerless Insurance Company

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Insurance Law
Pursuant to New York Court of Appeals answer to the certified question: in a case where a fire insurance policy contains a provision allowing...

Mark Tanner Construction v. Hub International

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Workers' Compensation
In an action for professional negligence and constructive fraud arising out of the sale of a workers' compensation program to plaintiffs and the...

Kenney v. Independent Order of Foresters

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's complaint brought pursuant to the West Virginia Unfair Trade Practices Act (WVUTPA) regarding the alleged mishandling of a...

Youssef v. Tishman Construction Corporation

Civil Procedure, Construction, Government Law
The district court's order dismissing, with prejudice, plaintiff's qui tam action under the federal and New York False Claims Acts alleging a...

Alicea v. Ayala

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright
Summary judgment for defendants in plaintiff's action alleging copyright infringement and contract claims concerning seven songs ultimately released...

Wilson v. Dantas

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, International Law
In an action in which plaintiff alleged that the Citibank defendants engaged in tortious conduct and breached contractual obligations owed to...

Castagna v. Luceno

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a discrimination action against defendant-employer, dismissal of plaintiff's state-law tort claims is affirmed, where: 1) as a matter of federal...