Court Cases in the News. A state- by- state review of court cases pertaining to workplace rights. Select your state from the map below or from this list. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of a teen Latina female, the agency announced today. Source: AP, SF Gate. Date: February 4, 2. I live in hughson, ca. Jurors have decided a Los Angeles County sheriff's sergeant should get $2. Source: Daily Breeze, Daily Breeze. Date: January 2. 8, 2. A state-by-state review of court cases pertaining to workplace rights. Select your state from the map below or from this list.
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury deliberated for about a half- hour before finding in favor of Michelle Thomas in her wrongful termination case against Tapou. T. Source: Henry K. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle. Date: January 2. 6, 2. The highest- ranking woman in the Concord Police Department has reached a $1. Tuesday. Source: Elizabeth Lesly Stevens, New York Times. Date: January 3, 2. State Superior Court judge is considering a lawsuit that Mr. Davis, now 6. 8, and three of his fellow Livermore retirees have brought against the Regents of the University of California. Source: Paul Thissen, Contra Costa Times. Date: November 1. The City Council voted Tuesday to pay $7. Source: Joel Rubin, LA Times. Date: November 3, 2. Jurors concluded the officer was fired in retaliation for testifying against the department in a labor dispute. Source: Pablo Lopez, Kansas City Star. Date: October 2. 7, 2. A California woman is entitled to the $1. Fresno County Superior Court jury ruled Tuesday. Source: Matthew Belloni, ABC News. Date: September 1. Supreme Court to get involved in the mammoth - and we do mean mammoth - sex- discrimination suit pending against it in California. Source: Peter Funt, The Monterey County Herald. Date: August 1. 8, 2. A fellow named Brian Reid is suing Google for allegedly firing him because of his age. Reid offers as proof the fact that co- workers called him an . Partridge was shocked not by the randy customers, the short- shorts and the plunging necklines, but because she says she spent her own money for her uniforms, worked long shifts without breaks and did not get her share of tips. Source: Contra Costa Times, Contra Costa Times. Date: April 8, 2. A male sheriff's deputy was awarded $3. Source: Statesman Journal, Statesman Journal. Date: March 1. 0, 2. A Sacramento jury has found an Oregon company liable for $2. Source: L. A. Lopez. Date: February 1. A state appellate court Thursday overturned a high- profile Los Angeles Fire Department harassment and discrimination case in which a black lesbian firefighter was awarded $6. Source: Judy Greenwald, Business Insurance. Date: January 2. 6, 2. Seventeen television networks and production studios and seven talent agencies have reached a $7. Source: Vic Walter, Angela M. Hill, and Brian Ross, ABCDate: January 2. An . Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today. Source: Maura Dolan , Los Angeles Times. Date: August 4, 2. The California Supreme Court left worker privacy rights intact but ruled against the plaintiffs because the camera installed by the Pasadena firm was turned on only when workers were not present. Source: Lisa Girion , Los Angeles Times. Date: May 2. 0, 2. For the first time, an Orange County jury will weigh whether the insurer wrongfully rescinded a California man's coverage. Source: EEOC, EEOCDate: May 1. Sam's Club, the wholesale chain store owned and operated by Wal- Mart, violated federal law by compelling Latino employees to endure a hostile work environment based upon their Mexican national origin, the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today. Source: Associated Press, Associated Press. Date: May 8, 2. 00. The U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims some Hispanic employees at a Fresno Sam's Club were subjected to a hostile work environment. Source: Mike Barris, Wall Street Journal. Date: May 6, 2. 00. Former and current employees of 3. M Co. Rebecca Carter, a 1. Department of Social Services veteran. Carol Maitzen, in a hearing that. The settlement is. Department. of Social Service's Atascadero office. Source: Associated Press, New York Times. Date: September 5, 2. A. California legislator is examining how to legally challenge the LPGA's new policy of requiring players to be. English. Senator Leland Yee - - a Chinese- born Democrat from San Francisco - - said Thursday he was. English starting in 2. Source: Jim Dalrymple, Macworld. Date: August 5, 2. David Walsh, a former Network Engineer that worked at Apple from 1. California labor laws. Filed in the United States District Court, Southern District of California. Walsh's suit says that Apple then denies the employees proper compensation for that work. Source: Rebecca Cathcart, New York Times. Date: March 1, 2. One of Los. Angeles' largest Chinese- language newspapers was ordered by a federal judge here Friday to pay millions of. The. $5. 1. 9 million award, to the employees of The Chinese Daily News, included penalties for violating labor laws as. Source: Zusha Elinson, The. Recorder. Date: February 2. Covad Communications and its ex- general counsel have finally laid to rest a sordid, six- year saga. Covad directors agreed to. GC and. co- founder Dhruv Khanna, the San Jose, Calif., telecom company detailed in its annual report. Palewicz approached the San Francisco law. Furth, Lehmann, and Grant- -the one that recently slapped Wal- Mart for $1. Alameda- -and asked if filing a lawsuit would be wise. And three years later, after. The four bellhops and their. Nov. 2. 8, 2. 00. Source: Elliot Spagat. Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle. Date: December 1. A California company and two executives pleaded guilty in. The penalty is one of the biggest fines ever imposed on. If the judge follows the government's recommendation to sentence the. Source: Steve Hymon, Duke Helfand, Los. Angeles Times. Date: November 3. The career of Los Angeles Fire Chief William Bamattre dangled in the balance Wednesday as the. City Council backed away from a settlement offered to a black firefighter who accused the department of racial. Firefighter Tennie Pierce sued the city after dog food was slipped into his firehouse meal two. The council had overwhelmingly agreed to settle the case for $2. Although the council action. City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo from conducting further settlement talks, for now the case is. March 1. 9. Source: Vanessa Hua, San Francisco. Chronicle. Date: October 7, 2. A Chinatown restaurant that was closed because of health violations in January, must pay more than. The restaurant's former owners were also ordered to pay as much as. Source: Jennifer Delson, Los. Angeles Times. Date: October 5, 2. A conservative advocacy group filed a lawsuit against Laguna Beach, alleging the city is. The lawsuit asks a judge to halt the city's. Although the immigration law is federal, the lawsuit was filed in state court because it. The litigation is just one of the ways anti- illegal. Southern California. Illegal immigrants rely on such. Source: Bob Egelko, San Francisco. Chronicle. Date: September 2. An appeals court reinstated a labor- backed law that prohibits California employers from spending. In a 1. 2- 3 ruling, the Ninth U. S. Circuit Court of. Appeals in San Francisco said the law does not violate employers' freedom of speech or interfere with federal. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling in a. Deanna Freitag, a former correctional officer at the maximum- security. Pelican Bay State Prison. A lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco in 2. She also. charged she was unfairly retaliated against and ultimately lost her job after complaining about the. Source: Elise Ackerman, Mercury News. Date: September 1, 2. A federal appeals. IBM workers who were laid off in a wave of corporate restructuring could sue Big Blue for age. In a unanimous decision, the 9th. U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the waiver did not meet the standard of being . The case is the second of its kind to be overturned by a federal appeals court. Source: Greg Krikorian. Andrew Blankstein, Los Angeles Times. Date: July 6, 2. 00. A legal secretary who was fired after she accused well- known Los. Angeles attorney Robert Shapiro of overbilling clients can sue his law firm for wrongful termination, a state. In its 3- 0 decision, a panel of the 2nd Appellate District concluded that Pauletta. James was entitled to move forward with a claim that she was dismissed from the firm of Christensen, Miller. Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro because she reported Shapiro's alleged misdeeds. The ruling. overturned a lower court decision that James had not proved her firing violated rules protecting. Source: Jerry Hirsch, Los Angeles Times. Date: July 7, 2. 00. A. state appeals court has upheld a law allowing a mediator to impose the terms of an initial labor contract if a. California. Labor leaders said the ruling would force growers to end what they called a pattern of delaying. A 2. 00. 2 state law grants workers who have voted to unionize the. If after 3. 0 days of mediation the two sides can't reach a bargaining agreement, the mediator can dictate. Source: Associated Press, Washington Post. Date: June 3. 0, 2. The Ralphs supermarket chain said it intends to plead guilty to charges that it illegally. Southern California. In. a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ralphs owner Kroger Co. Ralphs said the expected agreement, if approved, would resolve the criminal. National Labor Relations Board. Prosecutors have said that. Ralphs workers and their union. Source: Bloomberg News, Los Angeles Times. Date: June 2. 7, 2. Lawyers for Wal- Mart workers who won a $1. December asked a. Monday to order the retailer to pay for missed rest breaks and urged the appointment of an independent. One of every 1. 0 Wal- Mart employees in California isn't being paid for. Wal- Mart knew as far back. An order in favor of the workers might force Wal- Mart to. Source: Maura Dolan, Los. Angeles Times. Date: June 9, 2. A nurse who was pestered for sex by an 8. California Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The state high court's unanimous.
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