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LANDEROS v. CALIFORNIA DEP'T OF CORRECTIONS

Contracts, Government Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Construction workers on a public project cannot ordinarily recover prevailing wages from a public entity, on either the tort or contract theory...

CITY OF OAKLAND v. WORKERS' COMP. APPEALS BD.

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In concluding that a demotion did not qualify as a "good faith" personnel action, the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board applied an incorrect...

YOUNG v. EQUIFAX CREDIT INFO. SERV., INC.

Banking Law, Commercial Law, Contracts, Consumer Protection Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a claim for publication of defamatory credit information, res judicata is not a per se bar to a suit based on publications occurring after final...

RILEY v. HARR

Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit against an author and publisher for a book's depiction of claimant, summary judgment against claimant was proper (on First Amendment...

BROWNING v. CLINTON

Injury & Tort Law
In a claim alleging that former President Clinton and other actors conspired to defame a former female acquaintance of Mr. Clinton, and to prevent...

GOSNEY v. THE RELIABLE LIFE INS. CO.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Government Law
In a tort complaint arising out of revocation of an insurance license, an insurer's communication to the Arkansas Insurance Commissioner was not part...

VASQUEZ v. N. COUNTY TRANSIT DIST.

Injury & Tort Law, Government Law
The "firefighter's rule", barring firefighters and police officers from suing those whose negligence caused a dangerous condition that resulted in...

PLUMMER v. NEW YORK CITY HEALTH & HOSP. CORP.

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
Where an infant's treatment was not a truly continuous course of treatment established with respect to the condition that gives rise to the lawsuit,...

LOW v. GOLDEN EAGLE INS. CO.

Class Actions, Contracts, Consumer Protection Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Product Liability
An insurer shall not be required to provide a third party defense to a lawsuit for damages from diet products, where the underlying complaint is...

PALESTINI v. GEN. DYNAMICS CORP.

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
Dismissal of a complaint, seeking damages for exposure to carcinogenic chemicals, was improper where sufficient facts stated a cause of action for...