ENTERTAINMENT / INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Representative Cases - ENTERTAINMENT / INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
- Trip on unsecured guide wire on sidewalk: city and utilities deny liability.
- Mental health worker for county claims racial discrimination amidst alleged false claims of competence issues and sealed county investigation.
- Claims of retaliatory discipline and termination of officer for whistleblowing about superior’s corruption in investigation of another officer.
- Third grader had bone broken in disputed bullying incident; prior incidents with claims of nonreporting and no notice versus school district’s failure to properly document.
- Transformer explodes, throws neighbor unconscious, damage to neighborhood.
- Civil rights action by lawyer arrested when law enforcement found illegal cannabis grow in his rented unit he was not aware of; stopped for missing front plate, cuffed.
- Broken tibia from slip during rain on metal utility plates placed on school walkway; Plates were code compliant when school was built, but new regs control friction coefficient; student had history of dropfoot.
- Hostile work environment with constant uninvited sexually charged comments, discrimination against epilepsy medical condition.
- City sued for reckless negligence in treatment by paramedic crew; claims of forged signature on refusal to be transported.
- School district suit against construction and management contractor; claims of misrepresentation.
- Twelve year old female student jumped and beaten by other students; disputed claims of prior reports and requests for assistance and protection.
- Claims of harassment by actor in television series.
- Racial discrimination and wrongful termination of assistant principal for special education in charter school
- “Me-too” allegations claim by model in fashion industry followed by retaliatory termination
- Dispute with state board of compensation over claims business underreported payroll by millions
- Dispute over auditing discrepancies between service provider and Corrections department
- Multi-decade tenancy with federal entity with expiring lease and dispute over terms of “restoration of facilities” and improvements
- Wrongful failure of probation, refusal to promote and refusal to accommodate PTSD in fire department
- Conflict re trip in pothole under repair by Beverly Hills in City of West Hollywood
- Civil rights violations by bouncers in bar assaulting transgender plaintiffs while protecting other customers who were attacked the plaintiffs
- Bullying suit between elementary students resulting in scar on cheek; disputed prior incidents
- Wrongful termination case with Bureau of Automotive repairs
- Ten families with disabled children claim abuse by special ed teacher over years
- Seven year old student steps on schoolyard irrigation cover and lacerates foot
- Officers for police department sue for retaliation as whistleblowers
- Untenured first grade teacher claims discrimination as Hispanic and harassment from principal; retaliation for declining to perform translation activities as a certified Spanish speaker
- A number of officers sue city and police department for imposition of unlawful quotas and retaliation for complaints about the quotas
- County and child protective service sued for negligence in not finding and stopping years of abusive treatment of twin brothers by guardian; guardian appointed by probate court, not dependency
- Inverse condemnation action from sewage overflow damage during city maintenance
- Suit against school for damages from teacher affair with student
- 35 year employee of CHP claimed age discrimination and wrongful termination
- Ten year old had spiral fracture from bully and school failed to take action
- Civil rights action for suit against state and county corrections for unreasonable force on inmate
- Mutual claims of theft, sexual harassment and wage and hour claims, wrongful classification
- Fire damage from public utility power lines causing fire
- Efforts to muzzle community activist on city development and easement restrictions
- Mutual combat between employees from two university departments
- Plaintiff rear-ended by police officer
- Tree branch falls onto teenager in public park: dispute between entities
- Fight on high school campus over claims student stole wallet
- Fight on campus with gang intervention; fractured spine
- Student blinded after school on campus when hit by thrown ball
- Trip on extension of temporary fence at fair; injury to left ankle
- Plaintiff 12-year-old student subject to bullying repeatedly over months with alleged non-action by school district, principal and other school personnel. Assault aggravated wound from prior surgery,
- Suit against University by student claiming harassment after roommate posted video of masturbation and posting seen by other students.
- Claims of rape by 14 year old against another 14 year old and publication of video after encounter in middle school.
- Negligence/wrongful death claims against County and Department of Child Protective Services for failure to protect plaintiff’s daughter, killed by family relative.
- Action against County and Sheriff for injuries to pretrial detainee in custody resulting in broken vertebrae.
- Suit for traumatic brain injury from student assaulted during football skit.
- Several cases of injuries from bicycles flipped from defects in roadway.
- Fall on asphalt/concrete sidewalk divide outside car dealership; meds covered workman comp.
- Fatalities from double car crash caused by hydroplaning on freeway after rains and claims against DOT and State for failure to clear drains on freeway.
- Officer killed two pedestrians in walkway while racing to scene of crime with no lights or sirens.
- High School Football player tackled causing brain damage. Claims of dangerous condition of turf on football field.
- Inverse condemnation where raw sewage overflowed into residence.
- Constructive eviction suit against city from sewage eruption and damage from residence basement filling with raw sewage and e-coli contamination.
- Traumatic brain injury to student in mascot costume during sports rally.
- Sexual relationship by government entity staff with underage wards of court.
- Part-time lifeguard for beach city claimed age discrimination and constructive termination
- Sexual relationship by government entity staff with underage wards of court.
- Parttime lifeguard for beach city claimed age discrimination and constructive termination.
- Civil rights action for suit against state and county corrections for unreasonable force on inmate.