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.
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 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
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 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 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
In a breach-of-contract dispute over a $160,000 fee demand following a cybersecurity vendor’s alleged failure to detect a 2023 data breach at a Georgia orthopedic clinic, the court dismissed the vendor’s counterclaim theories for fraud in the inducement, breach of the implied covenant of
Eastern District of California denies the plaintiff’s motion to remand a wage-and-hour class action against Land O’Lakes and Kozy Shack Enterprises, holding the defendants’ updated expert calculations satisfy the $5 million amount-in-controversy threshold under the Class Action Fai
Eastern District of California affirms a disability denial where the administrative law judge erred by stating that the claimant never reported her need to lie down — the records did show such reports — but the error was harmless because the ALJ provided independent, valid reasons to discount the te
The court denied an emergency motion to bar Immigration and Customs Enforcement from arresting an applicant at her green-card interview at the San Diego USCIS office, finding that even though similar arrests had been documented at the same office, the plaintiff had not shown that arrest was likely i