Category: Law News

A customer of the Subway sandwich chain was cleared to proceed with her lawsuit against the company for incessantly texting her even after she asked them to stop. Marina Soliman filed the lawsuit in March of last year because she was receiving promotional text messages from the fast-food chain that she couldn’t opt out of....

Five women who have worked in various roles at Amazon are suing the company, citing racial and gender discrimination. In separate suits filed Wednesday, the diverse group of women, who worked either corporate positions or warehouse management and range in age from 23 to 64, each allege they faced retaliation by their white managers for...

A lawsuit that claims one of Amazon’s fulfillment centers in California failed to provide required meal breaks for employees has moved to federal court, as attorneys seek class-action status. First filed in San Francisco County Superior Court in February, the case was removed to US District Court California, Northern District on Friday. Lovenia Scott, a...

Proposition 22 in California allows companies like Uber Technologies and Lyft to continue classifying drivers as contract workers rather than full-time employees. It’s not clear whether that designation applies retroactively, and that poses a multibillion-dollar risk for investors. California’s attorney general and municipal officials from around the state have sued Uber (ticker: UBER) and Lyft...

The California Supreme Court has ruled an employer cannot round the time an employee spends on their meal break to the nearest preset fraction of an hour. The court further held that time records showing noncompliant meal periods raise a rebuttable presumption of meal period violations. Meal Breaks: The Basics A California employer generally must...

On April 16, 2021, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 93 into law. The law requires employers to offer open job positions to employees who were previously laid off due to COVID-19-related reasons and adds records retention and notice requirements. The law takes effect immediately and is effective until December 31, 2024. At the...

Uber, Lyft and other gig-economy companies face a new challenge from the Biden administration to their use of contract workers, but as they gear up for a fight in Washington they could turn to a lobbying playbook that helped them score a decisive win against California regulators last year. U.S. President Joe Biden campaigned on...

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California granted on March 29, 2021 the California Chamber of Commerce’s (CalChamber) motion for a preliminary injunction, halting new lawsuits to enforce the Proposition 65 warning requirement for acrylamide in food and beverages. (See: California Chamber of Commerce v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of the State of...

A gaggle of California district attorneys were successful Thursday in forcing online retail giant Amazon to revise its “reference pricing” advertising alleged savings to consumers. A week after San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan was joined by district attorneys for Alameda, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Riverside and Yolo counties in suing Amazon over its advertised “reference...

One of the most important privacy protections in an era where our privacy has become more and more limited in this age we live in. One of the biggest areas of protection is in telephone conversations. This post is a brief explanation of a major case on consumer privacy rights which has come down today....