Litigation involving members of close corporations may create issues with attorney representation. In Ontiveros v. Constable, 245 Cal. App. 4th 686, 199 Cal. Rptr. 3d 836 (2016), a minority shareholder brought derivative claims against the corporation, the majority...
As of January 1, 2016, any individual who is an owner, director, officer, or managing agent of an employer may be held liable as the employer if he or she violates, or causes to be violated, wage and hour provisions. Cal. Lab. Code § 558.1. The California Supreme...
By its terms, California Code of Civil Procedure Section 473 allows a court to grant leave to amend "any pleading." This broad language, however, is misleading. When a party fails to plead a compulsory cause of action in a cross complaint, a motion for leave to amend...
In Husky International Electronics, Inc. v. Ritz published on May 16, 2016, the Supreme Court of the United States ("SCOTUS") found a debt not dischargeable because of the debtor's intercompany transfer scheme to avoid paying the debt. The debt was owed by Chrysalis...
President Obama recently signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 ("DTSA"), which provides California businesses with another tool to protect their trade secrets. Specifically, the DTSA provides trade secret owners with a federal civil right of action to pursue...
In Corbin v. Time Warner Entm't-Advance/Newhouse P'ship, the Ninth Circuit was recently asked to determine whether hourly compensation policies at a California call center which rounded hourly time stamps to the nearest quarter hour and which required employees to...
