Judge Lin reverses and remands the Social Security Administration’s denial of disability adult child insurance benefits and SSI to plaintiff Chasity T., holding that the Administrative Law Judge’s decision was not supported by substantial evidence in the record.
Magistrate Judge Corley denies Macy’s motion to compel arbitration of a putative wage-and-hour class action by California warehouse fulfillment associates, holding that they are transportation workers exempt from the FAA under Ortiz v. Randstad Inhouse Services.
Judge Gilliam compels arbitration of Trimble’s breach-of-contract suit against Unity Software over a disputed distribution fee, holding that the AAA delegation clause in Unity’s Terms of Service sends arbitrability questions — including the scope of the agreement — to the arbitrator.
Judge Lin transfers a putative class action accusing Hilton of placing third-party tracking cookies on consumers’ devices despite their opt-outs to the Eastern District of Virginia, holding that the named plaintiffs’ Hilton Honors Program forum-selection clause requires venue there.
Magistrate Judge Lin allows pro se plaintiffs Logan Blömqvist and Todd Myers to proceed with ADA Title III and retaliation claims against Extra Space Storage over alleged denial of access to storage units in Campbell and Los Gatos, while dismissing their § 1983 claim and denying a preliminary injunc
Magistrate Judge Corley denies the International Swimming League’s eve-of-trial requests to allow its founder Konstantin Grigorishin to testify remotely from Switzerland and to bar World Aquatics from arguing that the lawsuit itself was a superseding cause of ISL’s damages, in this long-running anti
Magistrate Judge Illman approves a $42,800 attorney fee under Social Security Act § 406(b) for counsel who secured $200,027 in past-due disability benefits for his client on remand, finding an effective hourly rate of about $1,350 reasonable and ordering the EAJA offset.
Judge Seeborg upholds the Provider Reimbursement Review Board’s denial of an unopposed reinstatement request after four major Bay Area hospitals — Contra Costa Regional, SF General, Stanford, and UCSF Medical Center — accidentally withdrew their entire FY 2007 Medicare outlier payment appeals while
Judge Martínez-Olguín dismisses with leave to amend a pro se mandamus petition by a developmentally disabled adult and his stepfather seeking SSA action against a representative payee that allegedly stopped paying his rent, holding the petitioners had not exhausted SSA administrative procedures.
Chief Judge Seeborg dismisses without leave to amend a former BART electrician’s common-law wrongful-termination/constructive-discharge claim, holding that under Lopez v. Southern Cal. Rapid Transit District a California public entity cannot be sued in tort without an authorizing statute.