Winston v. County of Los Angeles

Trial court erred in denying successful whistleblower retaliation litigant's Labor Code Section 1102.5(j) attorney fees' request when amended provision could be applied retroactively. READ MORE

Trujillo v. J-M Manufacturing - filed Dec. 2, 2024, Second District, Div. Eight

Civil Procedure Code of Civil Procedure §1281.98(a) was inapplicable where the parties did not submit to arbitration pursuant to any pre-dispute agreement; the drafting party for purposes of §1281.98 is the employer or company that drafted the pre-dispute arbitration agreement binding the employee. Trujillo v. J-M Manufacturing - filed Dec. 2, 2024, Second District, Div. Eight Cite as 2024 S.O.S. 3783 Full text click here >http://sos.metnews.com/sos.cgi?1224//B327111

Gonzalez v. Nowhere Beverly Hills - filed Dec. 3, 2024, Second District, Div. One

Employment Law Equitable estoppel barred a worker from avoiding arbitration with corporate entities related to his direct employer, with whom he had an arbitration agreement, where the only possible liability for those other corporate entities was his theory that they were joint employers who shared in his direct employer’s legal obligations. Gonzalez v. Nowhere Beverly Hills - filed Dec. 3, 2024, Second District, Div. One Cite as 2024 S.O.S. 3793 Full text click here >http://sos.metnews.com/sos.cgi?1224//B331083.