Latest California Court of Appeal Stories

SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- After a four-week trial that commenced on November 14, 2011, Judge William J. Monahan of the California Superior Court ruled in favor of the DVD CCA, marking the end of the third chapter of the consortium's legal proceedings against Kaleidescape. Kaleidescape has filed notice of appeal. "Kaleidescape operates with a very high degree of integrity, and we work meticulously to comply with each and every agreement that we sign, so...

LOS ANGELES, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- On March 18, 2010, Paychex, Inc., Thomas Golisano, and two other defendants paid $32.2 million toward a judgment that was recently affirmed by the California Court of Appeal. On March 9, 2010, the Court affirmed a verdict of a Los Angeles jury that had, in addition to compensatory damages of $15 million, awarded punitive damages totaling $11,000,000 against Paychex (Nasdaq: PAYX) and Golisano. In its decision, the Court wrote that Paychex and the...

IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- A Los Angeles Superior Court judge today gave final approval to a class action settlement involving Lowes Home Improvement which calls for a maximum payment of $29.5 million. Two former Lowes employees alleged that they, and thousands of other hourly Lowes workers were required to work "off the clock" before and after their normal shifts, for which they were not paid. The action was litigated by Stanley Saltzman, Louis Marlin, Mark Bradley and...

A winery that corrected its barriers to access as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act and state access laws was entitled to recover some of its attorney fees from the activist who filed the claims, the California Court of Appeal has ruled. The plaintiff was a wheelchair-bound activist for rights for the disabled. He filed several hundred lawsuits claiming access violations, leading to rulings that he was a vexatious litigant in state and federal courts in California. The state...

In a significant ruling, the California Court of Appeal has revived a whistleblower lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) and a spin-off entity, Agilent Technologies, for knowingly selling defective, life threatening medical devices used by many California hospitals. Brought by a former Hewlett-Packard employee named Robert Hindin on behalf of the State of California and himself, the complaint cites the company's "scheme to defraud its customers by knowingly selling...