In deSaulles v. Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula (H038184, Superior Court No. M85528), the Sixth Appellate District held a plaintiff is entitled to statutory costs as the prevailing party ...

A California appellate court ruled in the plaintiff’s favor in a recent disciplinary matter where a hearing panel recommended expulsion. While the case pertained to a school, HR professionals should ...

In Part I of his two-part series, Bob Genis reviews how the plaintiff s in negligence and malpractice cases can strategically require the defendant to appear at trial during the plaintiff’s direct ...

But reputational and professional harm is generally not a basis for allowing pseudonymity in most cases (since so many litigants face some such harm from the allegations in their cases being public).

Scott Mollen discusses “10MSW17D LLC v. Board of Mgrs. of 10 Madison Sq. W,” where the court upheld a condominium board’s ...

A: The plaintiff is the party who brings the lawsuit. This typically means the plaintiff is the one making a claim, and seeking a remedy of some kind (often monetary damages). So, you could say a ...

Q: Who can’t recover for defamation even though they may have been libeled? A: The libel-proof plaintiff. The “libel-proof plaintiff” doctrine provides an independent ground for dismissing a ...

The headlines posted by various media outlets will draw plenty of clicks. The story is far less salacious, at least for now. In the ongoing civil lawsuit against former NFL quarterback and former Fox ...

It is true that the judge supervising the case pointed out that while Trump is suing the IRS in a personal capacity, he leads ...

TikTok has agreed to settle with a plaintiff and will no longer be part of a high-profile California social media trial. The trial continues this week against Meta and Alphabet's YouTube. Last week, ...