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Sameyah v. Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Ass'n

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's petition for peremptory writ of mandate seeking an order compelling the Board of Retirement (Board) of the Los Angeles County Employees...

Brooks v. Arthur

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Administrative Law, Civil Procedure
In former correctional officers' suit against their former supervisors, in their individual capacities, asserting retaliation under 42 U.S.C. section...

Gordon v. City of Oakland

Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) challenge to the City of Oakland's policy requiring police officers to repay a portion of their training costs if...

Montgomery v. Am. Airlines, Inc.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's suit against his employer, American Airlines, claiming two civil rights violations relating to his race, district court's grant of the...

Employment Dev. Dep't v. California Unemployment Ins. Appeals Bd.

Administrative Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In Employment Development Department's (Department) action issuing an assessment against defendant-providers of payroll services for underpaying its...

Pineda v. Bank of Am., NA

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's suit against his former employer, seeking to represent a class of former Bank of America employees whose final wages were untimely...

Thomas v. Comm'r of the Soc. Sec. Admin.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
District court's order partially remanding a final decision of the Commissioner of Social Security, denying plaintiff's claim for disability benefits...

Schwalm v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of Am.

Administrative Law, ERISA, Evidence, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
District court's dismissal of plaintiff's suit against an insurer's decision to terminate plaintiff's long-term disability benefits for complications...

Alvarez v. Des Moines Bolt Supply, Inc.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an action claiming that plaintiff was subjected to sexual harassment from co-workers, and that defendant-employer retaliated against her when she...

Smith v. Adventist Health System/West

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a physician's suit against defendant and its affiliates for summarily suspending his privileges at a hospital for a brief time in 2004 and for...