Month: April 2020

In September 2014, Ying Huang and Koon Huat Low (the Huangs) filed an action against Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (Wells Fargo) to quiet title to a home the Huangs bought in February 2009. The trial court granted summary judgment against the Huangs. The court ruled their...

T-Mobile USA, Inc. (T-Mobile) appeals a judgment entered on a $5 million jury verdict in favor of former employee Stephen Colucci in a workplace retaliation case. T-Mobile primarily challenged the punitive damages award, arguing insufficient evidence was presented at...

This lawsuit arises out of the purchase and botched remodel of a fixer-upper house in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. Plaintiff Justin Moore alleges he was fraudulently induced by his real estate agent Richard Burden Teed to purchase and renovate...

University of California for gender discrimination based on a series of events that took place while she was a Professor of Medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). The jury found in favor of Dr. Pinter-Brown and awarded her upward of $13...

A married couple filed a fraud action against multiple defendants. While the fraud action was pending, husband filed for divorce. Husband and wife entered into a written marital property agreement that characterized any recovery in the fraud action as the separate...

While Michael Tilkey and his girlfriend Jacqueline Mann were visiting at her home in Arizona, they got into an argument. Tilkey decided to leave the apartment. When he stepped out onto the enclosed patio to collect his belongings, Mann locked the door behind him....

Appellants operate several residential care facilities for the elderly. Respondents are seven former employees who worked at the facilities, and who brought administrative proceedings against appellants before the Labor Commissioner (the Commissioner) seeking unpaid...

When an individual enters a marriage owning a piece of real property, and the marital community pays the property’s mortgage during the marriage, California law provides a formula through which to apportion the property’s value upon the marriage’s end. Known as the...

At the close of Schreiber’s case, Lee moved for nonsuit on the ground her claims against him were based on a patent construction defect and therefore barred by the statute of repose set forth in Code of Civil Procedure section 337.1. The trial court denied the motion,...

Appellant Jennifer K. and respondent Shane K. are the parents of a daughter they have jointly parented since her birth in 2009. On December 22, 2017, 10 years after a “dating” relationship had ended, appellant filed a request for a domestic violence restraining order...