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California Courts Pro-Privacy Decisions Make it Easier for Consumers to Sue Companies
California’s biggest tech companies will be facing new consumer claims after privacy incidents and the California Court System is preparing to make it even easier for consumers to bring new actions. The New California Consumer Privacy Act goes into effect on Jan 1, 2020 and federal courts in California are lowering the bar for consumers […]
The NBA Versus China Could Get Legal
In a battle of values versus money, the NBA took a hard stand recently by backing Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey’s tweet in support of protesters in Hong Kong. In a press conference in Tokyo, NBA Commissioner Silver pointedly asserted that the NBA supports freedom of expression on political and social topics, even if it […]
Mercury Insurance’s 20-year Legal Battle with California Settles for $41 Million
The largest property and casualty insurance penalty and interest payment in the California’s history has been levied and Mercury Insurance’s 20-year-long battle with California is now over. Under the terms, Mercury will pay the state more than $41 million. The decades-long legal dispute was over extra fees that Mercury charged to its customers. The settlement […]
Bill Cosby Loses Dispute Over Legal Bills
Well, “America’s Favorite TV Dad” turned “America’s Least Favorite Rapist” Bill Cosby recently lost a legal dispute over his legal bills during said rape court case a few years back. The 82-year-old Cosby had challenged a California arbitration award that upheld nearly $7 million of a $9 million bill submitted by just one firm […]
California Limits Residential Rent Increases Under New Bill
It’s no secret that California has an affordable housing problem. And the state government is taking action. According to news sources, tenants across California will for the first time have protections against how much landlords can increase their rents after legislators on Wednesday narrowly approved a measure to cap annual rent hikes. Under Assembly Bill […]
Dean Sperling on Why People Don’t Trust Lawyers
Well, it’s no secret that many people just have a hard time trusting their trusted legal advisors out there. When asked if the law has a PR problem, our own resident legal eagle, Dean Sperling, had a few comments on the subject: “I don’t believe ‘law’ has a PR problem, but lawyers certainly do. Lawyer […]
Why Is Settling a Legal Dispute Considered Losing?
According to the experts at The Law Dictionary, about 95 percent of pending lawsuits end in some sort of a pre-trial settlement. And yet many clients of lawyers and law firms still think of settling a case as “losing.” This perception is truly fascinating given how many cases actually see the inside of a courtroom. So […]
Bitcoin Inventor Ordered to Surrender $4B Worth in Estate Dispute
Craig Wright, the man who claims to have invented Bitcoin 10 years ago, has been ordered by a judge to surrender more than $4 billion of the cryptocurrency to the estate of his former partner, the late Dave Kleiman. Wright was found to have submitted false documents and also to have lied during his testimony. […]
From the Sperling Law Case Files: A Website for the Blind
Discrimination against people with disabilities is wrong and shouldn’t happen at any time, anywhere. That’s the basic premise of the American Disabilities Act (ADA) passed in 1990. But as we’ve covered in this blog on multiple occasions, some attorneys and their clients want to use the ADA as a source of income rather than a […]
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