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...The lawsuit, which was filed in the superior court in San Francisco by California’s attorney-general on Friday, seeks damages from the oil industry to help pay for the costs of climate change and to prevent...
...Superior Court on Wednesday....
...On Friday, a superior court judge in Alameda County said Proposition 22, which allows gig workers to remain independent contractors, was “unenforceable” under state law....
...On Monday Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman said the ride-share companies had until August 20 to reclassify their drivers, though in that time the companies are expected to appeal....
...In previous cases testing the Sherman act, the courts have recognised that monopolies are not unlawful if they are the result of superior skill....
...A lawsuit from Prop 22 accusing Uber of “coercing” drivers was thrown out by a California Superior Court judge in the run-up to Tuesday’s vote....
...Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman granted a preliminary injunction ordering the reclassification, which would immediately enforce a law enacted last year that Uber and Lyft say will make their businesses...
...A Superior Court judge has given the companies until the end of Thursday to make the switch, paving the way for drivers to get healthcare, sick pay and other benefits in accordance with the state’s AB5 law...
...Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman stayed the injunction for 10 days, giving the companies time to appeal against a judgment that they claim would make their businesses unworkable....
...Schulman, a judge for San Francisco’s superior court, said “substantial public harm will result” from preserving the status quo which deprives ride-hailing drivers of “the panoply of basic rights to which...
...Earlier, the judge in the case said Amazon would probably be successful in proving its argument in court....
...Mr Johnson was awarded damages of $289m — comprising $250m in punitive damages and $39m in compensatory damages — by San Francisco’s Superior Court of California after it found in August that Monsanto had...
...Francisco court switched its tentative post-trial ruling on the Roundup cancer case and rejected the company’s arguments that the jury verdict should be overturned....
...The class action lawsuit, filed in superior court in California on Monday, was brought on behalf of all employees whom Google is alleged to have discriminated against either because of “their perceived conservative...
...But it is also home to the Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo, a place tech chief executives would just as soon avoid at all costs....
...The Superior Court of San Francisco could provide a ruling as early as today on Western Digital’s efforts to block the sale, after an initial outcome was delayed a fortnight ago....
...Cities such as Atlanta, New York and San Francisco are among the most diverse in the world, and their populations are surging....
...Western Digital had asked the Superior Court of California in San Francisco to block any sale of Toshiba’s interests in the joint ventures pending the outcome of the arbitration....
...Harold Kahn, presiding over the case at the Superior Court of San Francisco, proposed an order requiring Toshiba to give Western Digital two weeks’ notice before completing a sale of its prized chip division...
...In the case considered by California’s Labor Commissioner, a former driver for Uber in San Francisco argued that she should be treated as an employee, and hence eligible for expenses to cover the miles she...
...“Given how sophisticated the parties here are, it is extremely odd to think they would agree to arbitration in such a tangential, indirect, circuitous way,” said Judge Harold Kahn in the San Francisco Superior...
...Lucy Koh, US district judge in San Jose, California, turned down Samsung’s request to lift her order, made last week, to halt sales of the tablet, which is seen as the most likely challenger to Apple’s iPad...
...The Supreme Court’s judges declined to rule in favour of the Federal Trade Commission, which has been alleging Rambus schemed to get standards adopted for which it only later revealed its own patented technology...
...Separately, a district court judge delivered a stinging rebuke to Qualcomm’s legal team as he upheld a jury verdict from January that barred the company from enforcing two of its patents against US rival...
...2006 in San Jose....
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