280 results for 'court:"USDC Southern District of California"'.
J. Bashant rules that a medical product solutions company may pursue fraudulent inducement claims against a diagnostic testing service. The medical product solutions company sufficiently alleges that the diagnostic testing service entered into a separate agreement with a third party to sell its products without remitting a portion of the revenues.
Court: USDC Southern District of California, Judge: Bashant, Filed On: May 1, 2024, Case #: 3:22cv785, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Contract
J. Bashant finds in favor of BMW on the driver's warranty claims related to the used BMW she purchased from a used car dealership not affiliated with BMW. A used vehicle sold with a remaining balance on the original manufacturer's warranty is not a new vehicle under the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act. Because all of the driver's claims rely on her vehicle being a new vehicle, they are legally foreclosed.
Court: USDC Southern District of California, Judge: Bashant, Filed On: April 30, 2024, Case #: 3:22cv1749, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Warranty, Contract
J. Curiel awards class counsel $246,000 in attorney fees following the settlement of the customers' class action accusing The Children's Place of falsely advertising that its items were discounted when they were not. Although the amount represents 42% of the settlement's redeemed coupon value, this is appropriate due to the 2,000 hours counsel put in and the fact that The Children's Place agreed not to contest a fee award as high as $1.08 million. This is not a windfall for class counsel.
Court: USDC Southern District of California, Judge: Curiel, Filed On: April 30, 2024, Case #: 3:16cv370, NOS: Other Fraud - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Unfair Competition, Attorney Fees, False Advertising
J. Huff dismisses securities claims alleging that the insulin diabetes medical device company falsely reassured investors that the impact from competition was no worse than anticipated and that the company ignored members of the sales forces who believed the company's financial goals were unattainable. The investors' allegations do not defeat the company's assertion that it reasonably believed that it would achieve its financial goals due to the usual, seasonal uptick in sales that typically begins in the third and fourth quarters.
Court: USDC Southern District of California, Judge: Huff, Filed On: April 30, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv1657, NOS: Securities/Commodities/Exchange - Other Suits, Categories: Securities
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J. Bencivengo finds that a woman whose conviction for murdering her husband with a hammer was vacated may pursue civil rights claims against the County of San Diego and certain police officers. The woman sufficiently alleges that the county crime lab mishandled evidence and produced "at least four error ridden forensic reports." Her allegations that the crime lab was not accredited and had no manual for the proper handling of evidence are also sufficient to bring Monell claims against the County.
Court: USDC Southern District of California, Judge: Bencivengo, Filed On: April 16, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv1045, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Police Misconduct
J. Bencivengo partially denies Platform Science's motion for summary judgment concerning some patent infringement claims for a telematics system fleet monitor brought by Omnitracs. One of the patents at issue provides an automation solution that is "an improvement to the human operation minimizing human-error," which is a patentable technical improvement. However, another patent "only entails practicing a longstanding function, and the specification references using generic computer components and technology to do so," so it is ineligible.
Court: USDC Southern District of California, Judge: Bencivengo, Filed On: April 8, 2024, Case #: 3:20cv958, NOS: Patent - Property Rights, Categories: Patent
J. Curiel rules that a former employee may pursue invasion of privacy claims against his former employer for requiring his medical and religious information so that he could obtain an exemption for the employer's mandatory Covid-19 vaccine policy. "While reporting whether one has received the Covid vaccines" to Human Resources has a fairly minimal impact on an individual's privacy interests, "disclosing medical or religious information to obtain an exemption" may have a larger implication on privacy interests.
Court: USDC Southern District of California, Judge: Curiel, Filed On: April 5, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv580, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment, Privacy, Covid-19
J. Schopler partially dismisses Proposition 65 related claims against the candy manufacturer concerning the amount of lead and cadmium in its chocolate products that are sold without warning labels. The consumer did not give the prelitigation notice required for lawsuits related to Proposition 65. Although she attempts to argue otherwise, most of the consumer’s claims target the chemicals and conduct that Proposition 65 seeks to regulate, as well as the harms the law seeks to prevent.
Court: USDC Southern District of California, Judge: Schopler, Filed On: March 31, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv55, NOS: Other Fraud - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Fraud, Consumer Law, Class Action
J. Major partly grants a civilian's motion to compel production of a police officer's personnel files after he performed a leg sweep on him, which resulted in a shattered eye socket. Although the files may contain some irrelevant information, the production of 300 pages is not disproportionate to the needs of the case. Furthermore, the officer's privacy concerns do not outweigh the civilian's need for the requested information, especially given that certain identifying information can be redacted.
Court: USDC Southern District of California, Judge: Major, Filed On: March 29, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv32, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Discovery, Police Misconduct
J. Simmons grants a digital bank's motion to compel arbitration against a borrower who claims the bank failed to protect her and other borrowers from cybercriminals. Although the borrower submitted her loan application through a portal hosted by Wisetack and agreed to Wisetack's terms of service, which included an arbitration clause, the borrower's claims against the online bank are "intimately founded in and intertwined with" the underlying contract. Therefore, the doctrine of equitable estoppel applies and the bank may enforce Wisetack's arbitration agreement as a non-signatory party.
Court: USDC Southern District of California, Judge: Simmons, Filed On: March 29, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv813, NOS: Other Personal Property Damage - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Arbitration, Privacy, Contract
J. Sabraw rules an employee may pursue failure to accommodate claims against Amazon related to his "bow-legged gait." The employee has sufficiently alleged that his manager insisted that there was no way to accommodate what the manager referred to as the employee's "obvious disability" and "limp," leading Amazon to determine that it could no longer provide him a temporary accommodation due to the "peak season" and subsequently placed the employee on a leave of absence.
Court: USDC Southern District of California, Judge: Sabraw, Filed On: March 29, 2024, Case #: 3:22cv1275, NOS: Employment - Civil Rights, Categories: Employment, Employment Discrimination
J. Simmons partly grants the consumers' motion for class certification concerning consumer protection and warranty claims against a supplement company and its "natural remedies" Sambucol product, which allegedly includes "unreported dietary" ingredients that may be illegal. While California and Missouri subclasses are certified, certification for the proposed nationwide classes is denied.
Court: USDC Southern District of California, Judge: Simmons, Filed On: March 29, 2024, Case #: 3:21cv137, NOS: Other Fraud - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Fraud, Warranty, Class Action
J. Montenegro grants Trader Joe's motion to dismiss some claims in a class action alleging that Trader Joe's dark chocolate products contain lead, cadmium and arsenic, which are not printed on the label. Although the consumers "may not be able to pinpoint a specific level at which these products would become an unreasonable safety hazard or unfit for human consumption, they have to at least provide some connection between the general harms possible from these heavy metals and the levels of heavy metals in these products."
Court: USDC Southern District of California, Judge: Montenegro, Filed On: March 27, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv61, NOS: Other Fraud - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Fraud, Consumer Law, Class Action