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Analysis of new laws and key decisions in California wrongful-termination and employment law.
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Morgan v. Regents of University of California: The Continuing-Violation Doctrine and the Significant-Participant Rule
An African-American electronic technician laid off in a budget cut applied for dozens of university jobs, was hired for none, and sued under the…
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Acuna v. San Diego Gas & Electric: When the Limitations Clock Starts on a FEHA Termination
In Acuna v. San Diego Gas & Electric Co. (2013) 217 Cal.App.4th 1402, reviewing a sustained demurrer, the Court of Appeal held the plaintiff’s…
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Kim v. Konad USA Distribution: FEHA Exhaustion Is Not Jurisdictional — and Can Be Forfeited
In Kim v. Konad USA Distribution, Inc. (2014) 226 Cal.App.4th 1336, the Court of Appeal affirmed a $60,000 bench-trial judgment for a sexually harassed…
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Wassmann v. South Orange County CCD: The Continuing-Violation Doctrine and Permanence at Termination
In Wassmann v. South Orange County Community College Dist. (2018) 24 Cal.App.5th 825, the Court of Appeal affirmed summary judgment against a dismissed community-college…
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Dominguez v. Washington Mutual Bank: The Continuing-Violation Doctrine and FEHA Limitations Accrual
Reversing summary judgment, the Second District held that a lesbian mail-services employee raised triable issues on whether her FEHA administrative complaint was timely under…
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Pechkis v. Trustees of the California State University
Two Chico State physics professors sued the CSU Trustees for retaliation, alleging a sham investigation and sabotage of their move to a new university…
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Quinteros v. Harbor Distributing, LLC
A firm filed a wage-and-hour class action duplicating one it had already filed elsewhere, then opposed a stay with a brief — drafted by…
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De Paolo v. Rosales
A resident manager whose apartment came with the job refused to leave after she was terminated. The Appellate Division affirms an unlawful detainer judgment:…
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County of Los Angeles v. Niblett
A fire-department mechanic repeatedly confronted management and then alluded to an incident in which a firefighter fatally shot another firefighter. The Second District affirms…
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Ratha v. Rubicon Resources, LLC
Cambodian villagers forced to work at Thai seafood factories sued a U.S. marketer under the trafficking civil-remedy statute; their case was dismissed because the…