The court compelled arbitration of a former CVS employee’s discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wage claims, ruling that CVS met its burden of authenticating her electronic signature on a 2017 arbitration agreement and that her bare assertion that her supervisor logged in and signed fo
After a hearing, the federal court granted the plaintiffs’ motion to remand a wrongful-death case to state court and ordered the removing defendants to pay attorney’s fees, finding their removal lacked an objectively reasonable basis under the Ninth Circuit’s recent decision in Chi
The court denied a self-represented dentist’s emergency motion to block his landlord from terminating a 21-year tenancy and pursuing state unlawful-detainer proceedings, finding that his § 1983 and ADA claims could not satisfy the most-important Winter factor — likelihood of success on the mer
After a bench trial in a consumer class action against an online skincare seller, the magistrate judge concluded that the seller’s customer-management software vendor was not liable on aiding-and-abetting or conspiracy theories under California’s Consumer Legal Remedies Act because the p
After remand led to an award of $247,681 in past-due Social Security benefits over eight years, the magistrate judge approved $37,920 in attorney’s fees representing 15.3% of the past-due benefits, finding the resulting $1,700-per-hour effective rate reasonable in light of counsel’s risk