Judge Gilliam remands a putative class action against Delta Dental of California to San Francisco Superior Court for lack of Article III standing, after Delta Dental removed the case based on the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act and immediately moved to dismiss for lack of standing — a
Judge Gilliam dismisses Divyang Ved’s derivative suit on behalf of Spain Fitness Ventures, LP for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, holding that the limited partnership is the real party in interest under Ross v. Bernhard and that its New Jersey citizenship — through Ved as a New Jersey limited p
Judge Martínez-Olguín dismisses with prejudice the freestanding actual innocence claim in Maria Moore’s federal habeas petition challenging her California first-degree murder conviction with special circumstances, holding that the U.S. Supreme Court has not yet recognized a free-standing innocence c
Judge Chen dismisses pregnancy and race discrimination claims against two individual UPS managers, Renee Rea and Omar Parra, holding the First Amended Complaint contains insufficient specific factual allegations to state claims against them while leaving the FEHA, Title VII, and IIED claims against
Judge Donato grants summary judgment for Maximus Grisso and remands the SSA’s denial of his Title II disability insurance benefits, holding that the administrative law judge erred at step two of the five-step sequential evaluation by finding Grisso’s fibromyalgia not a severe impairment.
Judge Lin grants Apple’s motion to stay Telcom Ventures’ patent infringement suit over Apple Pay features pending Patent Trial and Appeal Board inter partes review of two of Telcom’s asserted patents, applying the three-factor framework from PersonalWeb Technologies v. Apple.
Magistrate Judge Cisneros remands a foreclosure-following unlawful detainer action to Alameda County Superior Court for the second time and partially grants attorney’s fees against the pro se removing tenant, holding the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act provides a federal defense, not federal-q
Judge Chesney grants the County of San Mateo’s motion to dismiss and grants in part the dismissal motion of jail medical contractor Vituity in a § 1983 wrongful-death action over the in-custody fentanyl-withdrawal death of Anthony Harding at the Maguire Correctional Facility, while affording leave t
Judge White grants final approval of a class action settlement against Equity Residential resolving claims that its Standard Late Fee (5% of monthly rent, minimum $50) charged to California tenants from October 29, 2022 through April 30, 2024 was unlawful, awarding $430,000 in attorneys’ fees and a
Magistrate Judge Beeler dismisses with prejudice the Title VII and ADEA claims of a 40-year-old Thai-American job applicant who repeatedly applied to Google for driver and management positions, holding he failed to exhaust administrative remedies, and dismisses his § 1981 discrimination claim with o