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A jury awarded plaintiff and appellant, Shirlean Warren, $17,455.57 in damages
pursuant to the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act (Civ. Code, § 1790 et seq.)
(the Song-Beverly Act), commonly known as California’s “lemon law.” (Goglin v. BMW of
North America, LLC (2016) 4 Cal.App.5th 462, 467, fn. 5 (Goglin).) As part of the
judgment, the court awarded Warren $115,848.24 in attorney

In this wage and hour class and representative action, the trial court granted a
motion for summary judgment brought by defendant AMN Services, LLC (AMN), and
denied motions for summary adjudication of one cause of action and one affirmative
defense brought by plaintiff Kennedy Donohue, individually and on behalf of five
certified plaintiff classes she represents (together Plaintif

The Labor Code generally provides that employees who
work more than five hours must be provided with a 30-minute
meal period and that employees who work more than 10 hours
must be provided with an additional 30-minute meal period.
(Lab. Code, § 512, subd. (a); all undesignated statutory
references are to this code.) An employee who works no more
than six hours may waive the

Melissa Brumley injured her back while unloading heavy packages from a United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) truck. After receiving workers’ compensation and taking a leave of absence, Brumley returned to work without any injury-related restrictions. Several months later, she sued UPS for failure to accommodate, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq. (ADA), as a

A long-time county employee decided to retire, and in December 2012, he
submitted his application for retirement to the county’s retirement authority. On January
1, 2013, the California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013 (Pension Reform
Act or PEPRA) took effect. Included in that measure is a provision that mandates the
complete or partial forfeiture of pension benefits/p

Finance Holding Company, LLC (Finance) obtained a judgment against
Dominque Molina for about $50,000 plus interest and attorney fees. In judgment
enforcement proceedings, Finance sought documents from Molina's employer, The
American Institute of Certified Tax Coaches, Inc. (Institute). Finance requested
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numerous categories of business, tax, and bank records, without limiting

Early in the morning of October 5, 2016, Nicholas Rout returned to his
apartment complex after a late-night study session at the University of Houston.
After he parked his car, a silver Dodge Caliber, outside of his apartment building,
Rout began climbing the stairs to his third-floor apartment when he noticed a couple
of people a short distance away.
Appellant, one of th

This qui tam action, brought under the False Claims Act,
comes to us on interlocutory appeal from the district court’s
denial of summary judgment so that we can settle questions
of law posed in the wake of Universal Health Services, Inc.
v. United States ex rel. Escobar, 136 S. Ct. 1989 (2016). We
affirm.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY1
Defendant Stephens Institute, doi

A former employee and participant in Intel’s retirement plans sued the company for allegedly investing retirement funds in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Intel moved to dismiss the complaint on the ground that the limitations period for his claims had expired. The magistrate judge1 converted Intel’s motion to dismiss into a motion for summary judgment and entered