• August 8, 2005 | Legal Times

    ADA Case Could Be Key Test for Roberts

    Civil rights advocates were optimistic in May when the Supreme Court agreed to consider a Georgia case that will decide whether disabled inmates can sue states over prison conditions under the

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  • Ralphs Grocery Company v. United Food and Commercial Works Union Local 8

    Publication Date: 2012-12-27
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2012-12-27
    Court: Ca. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Morrison & Foerster, Miriam A. Vogel, Timothy F. Ryan and Tritia M. Murata for Plaintiff and Appellant. Littler Mendelson, William J. Emanuel and Natalie Rainforth for Employers Group, California Grocers Association and California Hospital Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant. Jones Day, Willis J. Goldsmith, Amanda M. Betman, Craig E. Stewart; National Chamber Litigation Center, Inc., Robin S. Conrad and Shane B. Kawka for Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant. Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Michael M. Berger and Matthew P. Kanny for California Retailers Association, California Business Properties Association and International Council of Shopping Centers as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Davis, Cowell & Bowe, Richard G. McCracken, Steven L. Stemerman, Elizabeth A. Lawrence, Andrew J. Kahn, Paul L. More, Sarah Grossman-Swenson for Defendant and Respondent. David L. Llewellyn, Jr., for the Missionary Church of the Disciples of Jesus Christ as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent. Judith A. Scott; Altshuler Berzon, Stephen P. Berzon, Scott A. Kronland and P. Casey Pitts for Service Employees International Union as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent. Lynn Rhinehart, James B. Coppess; Altshuler Berzon and Michael Rubin for American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent. Alan L. Schlosser for American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent. Catherine L. Fisk for Labor Law Professors as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent. Reich, Adell & Cvitan and J. David Sackman for Korean Immigrant Workers Alliance as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent. DeCarlo, Connor & Shanley and Daniel M. Shanley for Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., and Kamala D. Harris, Attorneys General, Manuel M. Medeiros, State Solicitor General, J. Matthew Rodriquez, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Louis Verdugo, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Angela Sierra and Antonette Benita Cordero, Deputy Attorneys General, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.

    Case Number: No. S185544

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 14131RALPHS GROCERY COMPANY, Plaintiff and Appellant,v.UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORK

  • October 4, 1999 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Unsettling Contracts

    You've seen the TV ads: If you have a structured legal settlement, there are numbers to call right now to turn an income trickle into a jackpot of cash. Settlement-buying companies in New Yo

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  • October 31, 2012 | Litigation Daily

    Samsung Presses Apple to Disclose When It Learned of Alleged Juror Misconduct

    Earlier this month, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. launched a bid to undo its recent $1 billion loss to Apple Inc. on juror misconduct grounds. Now Samsung's lawyers are demanding to know whe

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  • April 9, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Apartheid Cases Against Multinationals Can Proceed in Manhattan Federal Court

    On Wednesday, Manhattan federal district court judge Shira Scheindlin denied motions to dismiss Alien Tort Claims Act suits brought against Ford, General Motors, IBM, UBS, and others by South Africans

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  • January 10, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    High Court Favors Primacy of Arbitration Act (Again) in CompuCredit Case

    On Tuesday, putting an end to four years of litigation between holders of the Aspire Visa card and CompuCredit Corporation, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that credit repair organizations can requi

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  • March 7, 2000 | The Recorder

    The Salary Gap

    Edwin Prather went to Pepperdine University School of Law on a scholarship, summered at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, and clerked for Central District Judge Robert Takasugi. Then th

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  • October 10, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Cerberus, Innkeepers Trial Postponed; Parties in Talks over Scuttled $1.1 Billion Deal

    In August, when Cerberus Capital Management and Chatham Lodging Trust invoked a material adverse change clause and walked away from a $1.12 billion deal to buy 64 Innkeepers hotels, the bankrupt

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  • Ralphs Grocery Company v. United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 8

    Publication Date: 2010-07-19
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2010-07-19
    Court: C.A. 3rd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Morrison & Foerster, Miriam A. Vogel, Timothy F. Ryan, and Tritia M. Murata, for Plaintiff and Appellant. Littler Mendelson, William J. Emanuel, and Natalie Rainforth for Employers Group, California Grocers Association, and California Hospital Association, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Davis, Cowell & Bowe, Sarah Grossman-Swenson, Elizabeth A. Lawrence, and Andrew J. Kahn, for Defendant and Respondent. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, J. Matthew Rodriquez, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Manuel M. Medeiros, Solicitor General, Louis Verdugo, Jr., Senior Assistant Attorney General, Angela Sierra and Antonette Benita Cordero, Deputy Attorneys General, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.

    Case Number: No. C060413

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 9208RALPHS GROCERY COMPANY, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS

  • November 1, 2000 | The American Lawyer

    Let A Thousand Branch Offices Bloom

    It is only 45 years since the Revolution of 1911, but the face of China has completely changed. In another 45 years, that is, in the year 2001, or the beginning of the twenty-first century,

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