Category: Civil and Business Litigation

Grabbing a photo off the web is usually about as easy as hitting “right-click” with your cursor and saving it to your computer. People do it all the time with memes and other interesting things they see. However, don’t make the mistake of thinking that just because an image or photo isn’t watermarked that it’s…

Is Swedish furniture maker Ikea’s response to a defective product concern adequate or abysmal? Some commentators think that the company has acted ethically and diligently in a safety matter involving many millions of chests and dressers sold to consumers across the United States. Consumer Product Safety Commission Acting Chairman Ann Marie Buerkle is one supporter.…

Company mergers are central parts of the business landscape in California and across the country, with their combinations often spelling a win-win formula for two joined entities. Given their consolidation of resources and power, though, they are also often targets of scrutiny for government regulators concerned with open competition in the American marketplace. Longstanding federal…

One company is an established tech enterprise headquartered in Florida. The other is a just-coming-to-the-party California startup. The following is their connected story, which is borne of acrimony and marked by contractual complexity. The former company, Citrix, employs workers in Raleigh, North Carolina. So too does Egnyte, the latter entity. Several Citrix employees recently left…

“So far, the alleged injury is vague, very indefinite for most people,” says one legal analyst commenting in the wake of what has been described as one of the largest security hacks to have ever occurred in the United States. Equifax fervently hopes that things stay just the same. Because if they don’t, and increasingly…

Imagine politicians in one state purposefully drafting legislation to fail in its first assessment by a court. That is precisely what has happened in South Dakota, with the national publication Bloomberg noting that a statute enacted by legislators there “was specifically drafted so the state’s highest court could quickly reject it and send it up…

An industry commentator notes in an intellectual property-themed article relevant to business startups that many entrepreneurs materially neglect paying timely attention to a critically important matter when they begin their enterprises. And here is an additional thing, notes IP specialist Tom Kulik: That inattention is not confined to novice business actors with no real understanding…

We note on a relevant page of our website at Larson & Gaston, LLP, in Pasadena, that “commercial real property issues … can open up significant legal exposure and costs.” We further stress on that page that the sources of those issues are wide-ranging, including construction-related disputes. A recent article authored by the insurance publication Claims Journal…

For obvious reasons, the largest car manufacturing company in the United States is doing everything it reasonably can to stay ahead of a potential tidal wave of litigation that is imminently heading its way and the attendant liability of massive proportions it could trigger. Notwithstanding that effort, though, a recent national news report indicated that,…

Here are a couple quick and obvious realities related to manufactured products that are made available to consumers through the market mainstream. First, and notwithstanding the efforts of product designers, makers, wholesalers, retailers and other parties to ensure safety, problematic features do occasionally surface with some goods and merchandise. As a result, safety recalls are…

Does it owe to purposeful bad-faith actions or, rather, the simple inability to conduct proper oversight and maintain accurate records? Either way, says the director of California’s Department of Managed Health Care, it’s “a mess.” “It” is the findings in a recently concluded state report that are, by any measuring stick, truly dismal. The data…