Central District of California holds that a ramp agent’s product-liability and negligence claims against airport equipment companies do not “arise under” California workers’ compensation law and may be removed to federal court despite Section 1445(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
Central District of California affirms denial of Supplemental Security Income, holding that the ALJ properly evaluated a consultative examiner’s opinion and that 23,000 cashier-II jobs in the national economy is a “significant number” at step five.
Central District of California denies remand of a Chevrolet Silverado lemon-law case, holding that civil penalties for an alleged willful Song-Beverly violation count toward the federal amount-in-controversy requirement and that the manufacturer need not prove willfulness to invoke that calculation.
In a federal False Claims Act case alleging that Abbott Laboratories used illegal kickbacks disguised as physician education for its MitraClip heart device, the magistrate judge declined to strike the relator’s late-filed expert report on medical-education standards, finding that even though t
Eastern District of California dismisses a mandamus petition seeking to compel U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to adjudicate a Form I-601 waiver application, holding that 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(9)(B)(v) strips federal courts of jurisdiction to review delays in waiver processing.
Eastern District of California allows the plaintiff in a civil sexual assault case against a Sacramento commercial real estate developer to proceed under a pseudonym, dismisses her assault claim with leave to amend, and sustains battery, sexual battery, IIED, and most other claims based on allegatio
Judge Christina Snyder granted motions to intervene by two animal welfare groups in Triumph Foods’ constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 12 farm animal confinement law, while imposing conditions including coordinated joint filings, no discovery between intervenors and Triu
Judge Anne Hwang sua sponte remanded a Mercedes-Benz lemon-law case after finding the defendant’s actual-damages calculation ignored the new January 2025 statutory offsets under Cal. Civ. Code § 871.27 and the conclusory willfulness allegation could not support adding $124,012 in civil penalti
The court dismissed three Monell municipal-liability claims against the City of San Diego based on a 2022 wrongful-arrest incident at Mission Beach, ruling that allegations of unrelated SDPD incidents did not establish a longstanding custom, that the failure-to-train theory required a pattern of sim