Pleasanton, California Family Law Blog

A licensed physician sued other medical entities and individuals for defamation based on statements made about her qualifications, competence, and medical ethics. In June 2018, plaintiffs-respondents Suzanne Yang and Doc Yang Medical Corporation sued...

Freelance bookkeeper Elizabeth Mulder perpetrated a nearly five-year fraud against her client, plaintiff Kurtz-Ahlers. Both Kurtz-Ahlers and Mulder coincidentally had their checking accounts at defendant Bank of America (the Bank). Mulder ran her scam through her...

The California Court of Court of Appeal affirmed the family court's division of marital property and rejected father's four claims of error. Father makes four appellate complaints about the family court’s division of marital property. First, from the value of the home...

Galeotti, a former Union Local 3 employee, filed a complaint against Local 3 and three of individual union leaders, alleging that the individual defendants required union employees to pay them money to keep their jobs, lied about the reason for collecting the money,...

This is an appeal from judgment on the pleadings entered by the trial court in favor of defendant Tucker Ellis, LLP (Tucker Ellis), a law firm. Plaintiff Evan C. Nelson, an attorney, brought this tort action against his former employer Tucker Ellis based on its...

In petitioning the trial court to amend a judgment to add an alter ego defendant, must the plaintiff proceed by a motion in the original action, or may plaintiff proceed by complaint in an independent action on the judgment? Either procedure will do. In May 2012 Alice...

Plaintiffs and appellants Balubhai Patel, DTWO & E, Inc. (DTWO), and Stuart Union, LLC (collectively, plaintiffs) appeal from the trial court’s order granting defendant and respondent Manuel Chavez’s motion to strike plaintiffs’ complaint against Chavez, pursuant...

The anti-SLAPP statute empowers a trial court to dismiss a claim if the claim (1) falls within the statute’s scope and (2) lacks “‘minimal merit,’” which is assessed by “accept[ing] the plaintiff’s evidence as true.” (Code Civ. Proc., § 425.16; Baral v. Schnitt (2016)...

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...