. Panel Holds That Lengthy Amount of Time Litigating In Federal Court “Will Almost Inevitably” Cause Parties To Expend More Time, Money, And Effort Than Had They Proceeded Directly To Arbitration. In Martin v. Yasuda, No. 15-55696 (9th Cir. 7/21/16) (Reinhardt, Wardlaw, Bennet), defendants, a cosmetology school and its principal, petitioned the 9th […]
Roger Ailes/Gretchen Carlson Dispute May End Up In Arbitration. Empirical studies support the perceptions of employees that they do better in court than in arbitration. See, for example, the study by Alexander Colvin of Cornell: “An Empirical Study of Employment Arbitration: Case Outcomes and Processes.” Roger Ailes’ defense team knows this too. […]
Third-Party Non-Signatory Owed Duties Under Labor Code To Plaintiff, Independent Of Plaintiff’s Contract. Zepeda v. Paramount Citrus Packing Company LLC, F071593 (5th Dist. 7/14/16) (Pena, Levy, Smith) (unpublished) distinguishes two situations: (1) a plaintiff whose relationship with a third-party non-signatory merely presumes the existence of a contract; and (2) a plaintiff whose rights […]
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The Subjects Are Appellate Mediation And Mediating Employment Disputes With Small Business Owners. The July 2016 edition of Orange County Lawyer includes two worthwhile articles about mediation. Rethinking the Impossible: Appellate Mediation. By the time a case is on appeal, many attorneys and their clients view a case as far beyond the point […]
Case Held That Arbitration Agreement Between Indiana Based Distance-Learning Partnership And California Licensed Vocational Nurses Was Unconscionable. We can report that on July 8, 2016, Magno v. The College Network, Inc., D067687 (4/1 6/14/16) (McConnell, Nares, O’Rourke), a case we posted about on June 22, 2016, was ordered for publication. Perhaps the most notable […]
Interview In Orange County Lawyer Is Summarized Today In California Attorney’s Fees Blawg. My colleague Mike Hensley and I publish a blawg about California Attorney’s Fees. A post today (July 10, 2016) in that blawg summarizes highlights of an interview appearing in the July 2016 edition of the Orange County Lawyer, in which the […]
Notwithstanding the trend in SCOTUS to uphold arbitration agreements, including waiver of class arbitration, our next two unpublished cases show that the California courts look closely at arbitration agreements, sometimes enforcing and sometimes not enforcing arbitration agreements. On the same day, one California Court of Appeal reversed an order denying an employer’s effort to […]
The Three Immutable Rules Of Appellate Practice. “When practicing appellate law, there are at least three immutable rules: first, take great care to prepare a complete record; second, if it is not in the record, it did not happen; and third, when in doubt, refer back to rules one and two.” Protect Our Water […]
Presiding Justice Turner Respectfully Dissents. The Fifth Circuit, Division Two, holds that because a law firm’s cause of action to compel arbitration with its client “admitted the existence of a binding agreement to arbitrate the fee dispute, the trial court’s jurisdiction over the merits of plaintiff’s claims was initially limited to a determination of […]