Entries by Peder

Court Finds First Amended Complaint Adequately Alleges Google Discriminated Against a Broad Class of Women Employees and Rejects Google’s Challenge to Gender Discrimination and Equal Pay Suit

March 28, 2018 in /by

On March 27, 2018, the San Francisco Superior Court overruled Google’s demurrer to an amended complaint filed by Altshuler Berzon LLP and co-counsel alleging that Google has engaged in systemic and pervasive pay and promotion discrimination against its women employees in California.  The court found that the amended complaint adequately alleges that Google has company-wide […]

Altshuler Berzon LLP Welcomes 2018 Summer Associates

January 17, 2018 in /by

Altshuler Berzon LLP is pleased to welcome its 2018 Summer Associates: James Baltzer (Stanford Law School), Nicholas DeFiesta (Stanford Law School), Dylan Saba (Berkeley Law), Robin Tholin (Harvard Law School), and Daniel Yablon (Berkeley Law). Additionally, Altshuler Berzon LLP congratulates them on accepting the following post-graduation judicial clerkships: James Baltzer will be clerking for Judge […]

N.D. Cal. Issues Nationwide Preliminary Injunction Requiring Federal Government To Maintain DACA Program

January 16, 2018 in /by

The United States District Court for the Northern District of California has entered a nationwide preliminary injunction requiring the federal government to maintain the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program for the duration of lawsuits challenging the Trump Administration’s abrupt rescission of the program.  The district court found that plaintiffs County of Santa Clara […]

Altshuler Berzon LLP Files Amended Complaint Against Google in Sex Discrimination Class Action

January 3, 2018 in /by

Altshuler Berzon LLP, with co-counsel Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP, filed an amended complaint in San Francisco Superior Court alleging that Google has engaged in systemic and pervasive pay and promotion discrimination against its female employees in California.  The lawsuit, Ellis v. Google Inc., originally filed by Kelly Ellis, Holly Pease, and Kelli Wisuri, […]

California Supreme Court unanimously affirms interest arbitration for farmworkers against constitutional challenges in Gerawan Farming v. ALRB.

November 30, 2017 in /by

The California Supreme Court recognized that the main purpose of the 2002 amendments was to enable farmworkers who choose to be represented by a union to obtain the benefit of a collective bargaining agreement.  Although the ALRA was enacted in 1975 to provide farmworkers the right to organize and bargain, by the time of the […]

California Court of Appeal Affirms Trial Ruling that Lead Paint Manufacturers are Liable for Causing Public Nuisance

November 16, 2017 in /by

On November 14, 2017, the California Sixth District Court of Appeal affirmed in principal part a groundbreaking trial court ruling that three paint manufacturers – Conagra Grocery Products Company, NL Industries, Inc., and Sherwin-Williams Company – had created a “public nuisance” by marketing lead paint for interior residential use throughout the first half of the […]

Altshuler Berzon LLP files amicus brief on behalf of Service Employees International Union in Supreme Court First Amendment case

October 30, 2017 in /by

Altshuler Berzon, LLP filed an amicus brief today on behalf of the Service Employees International Union (“SEIU”) in the Supreme Court case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.  The case arose when Respondents Charlie Craig and David Mullins sought to purchase a cake for their wedding from Petitioners Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd., a Colorado bakery, […]

C.D. Cal. Approves $13 Million Settlement of Privacy Class Actions Against HSBC

October 25, 2017 in /by

The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California today granted final approval to the settlement of three class action lawsuits alleging that HSBC and its representatives violated California’s Invasion of Privacy Act by recording their credit-card-related telephone phone calls to HSBC credit card account holders without the account holders’ knowledge or consent.  HSBC […]