A southern California hospital will pay more than $500,000 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit, according to a recent news article.The medical center, just south of Pasadena, reportedly agreed to the settlement last week. The settlement satisfies a...
Wrongful termination lawsuit filed against California bank
California is no stranger to workplace discrimination cases. Now, a former employee of the La Costa branch of Union Bank has filed a lawsuit claiming that the bank is guilty of harassment and age discrimination, which, she alleges, led to her wrongful termination.The...
Hadsell Stormer Richardson & Renick LLP help secure justice at HEI Hotels & Resorts
Hadsell Stormer Richardson and Renick LLP recently helped Hotel workers achieve justice at an HEI Hotels & Resorts operated hotel - Embassy Suites Irvine. In eight hearings over the Summer of 2011 before the California Department of Labor Standards Enforcement...
Entertainment turns into sexual harassment and assault
That sexual assault and sexual harassment occurs at all at the work place is disconcerting. That it can sometimes be tolerated and even be the source of entertainment for others makes such behavior even more offensive.It is alleged that cast members on a heavily...
Alabama jury awards Iranian-American $7.5 million in slander case
On November 1, 2011, an Alabama jury awarded Iranian-born Shawn Esfahani $7.5 million in damages for his slander claim. Esfahani, owner of Eastern Shore Toyota, had sought $28 million in compensatory and punitive damages from Bob Tyler Toyota for falsely portraying...
Ninth Circuit Refuses to Block Deposition of Los Angeles County Undersheriff Tanaka
An emergency panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has declined to enter a protective order preventing plaintiff Michael Holguin from taking the deposition of Los Angeles County Undersheriff Paul K. Tanaka. Michael Holguin is represented by the law firm of...
Recent Audit by the State of California Reveals Self-Dealing by Engineering Firm AAE; the Same Firm Whose Bribery of City of Maywood Officials was Exposed by Former Maywood Employee, David Mango.
The Los Angeles Times reported this week that California State Controller John Chiang's office found in an audit released Tuesday, an improper arrangement between the City of Montebello, and its engineering firm AAE. Through the city's arrangement with AAE, the firm...
Former Oakland city administrator sues city
In a case that's currently pending in a California court, seemingly the only thing the two opposing parties can agree on in is the fact that Oakland City Administrator Deborah Edgerly was fired from her position with the city. Edgerly claims that she was fired due to...
