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'Traveling cookies?' Appeals court says Shopify, other online biz can be sued under CA privacy law

4 days ago | norcalrecord.com | Jonathan Bilyk

Online payment processor Shopify can be sued for allegedly violating a California privacy law by allegedly installing tracking cookies on customers' devices, after a split federal appeals court reversed their judicial colleagues.
SF Sheriff's electronic monitoring program doesn't violate accused criminals' rights, separation of powers, court says

6 days ago | norcalrecord.com | Jonathan Bilyk

A divided federal appeals panel will allow San Francisco's sheriff to resume electronically monitoring the whereabouts of criminal defendants awaiting trial, after the judges said they don't believe terms of the electronic monitoring program, including alleged warrantless searches, amount to violations of detainees' constitutional or legal privacy rights.
Appeals court: Workers can't waive meal break rights, then sue employer for missed meal breaks

1 week ago | norcalrecord.com | Jonathan Bilyk

Workers who have freely and knowingly signed agreements waiving their rights under California labor law to 30-minute meal breaks cannot turn around and sue their employers for making them work without meal breaks, a California state appeals panel has ruled.
Filmmaker on rising wildfire risk: It 'has been extremely difficult, if not impossible' to get homeowner insurance

1 week ago | norcalrecord.com | C. M. Schmidlkofer

Justine Bateman, an author and filmmaker, said that homeowners in California are struggling to obtain property insurance following the withdrawal of insurers from the market. She made this statement in a post on X. "A couple of years ago, insurance companies put in the necessary requests to the state of California to raise their rates," said Bateman.
Judge: Carano should get access to pay info for Disney+ Star Wars series actors

2 weeks ago | norcalrecord.com | Jonathan Bilyk

Disney must turn over a trove of contracts and other documents to the legal team representing actor Gina Carano in her lawsuit against the entertainment giant for firing her from the cast of its popular Star Wars TV series, "The Mandalorian," allegedly in retaliation for conservative political statements she made on social media that studio executives found unacceptable.
Judge melts class action vs Trader Joe's over alleged metals in dark chocolate

2 weeks ago | norcalrecord.com | Jonathan Bilyk

A federal judge has melted a class action alleging Trader Joe’s concealed metal toxins in dark chocolate products. U.S. District Judge Ruth Montenegro on March 27 granted summary judgment to the boutique grocery retailer. That ruling followed earlier dismissal of claims under California law and the latest development in broader litigation efforts against chocolate sellers all rooted in similar alleged misrepresentations.
Judge: Lawyers OK to claim $12M of $35M Apple gift card scam settlement

2 weeks ago | norcalrecord.com | Jonathan Bilyk

Attorneys who led a class action lawsuit against Apple over alleged gift card fraud should receive more than $12 million from a $35 million settlement, a federal judge has ruled, despite Apple's objections that the plaintiffs' lawyers are claiming millions of dollars more than they should, taking money away from class members who the lawyers claimed they represented. On April 3, U.S. District Judge Edward J.
Appeals court: Chico mom should get new chance to sue school district for secretly transitioning daughter

3 weeks ago | norcalrecord.com | Jonathan Bilyk

A mom in Chico has secured a new chance to continue suing her community's public school district for "socially transitioning" her 11-year-old daughter and counseling her on transgender surgical options and other gender-related matters without telling the mother.
Gay father can use oral agreement to block parental rights claim from surrogate mom

3 weeks ago | norcalrecord.com | Jonathan Bilyk

An oral surrogacy agreement is enough to prevent a woman who birthed a child with a gay neighbor through artificial insemination using her own eggs from claiming any parental rights as the child's mother more than seven years after the birth, a state appeals court has ruled.
Appeals court: Apple OK to fire actor from TV series for refusing Covid vax

4 weeks ago | norcalrecord.com | Jonathan Bilyk

An actor, who had been slated to play former President Andrew Johnson in an Apple TV series concerning the hunt for Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, can't sue the entertainment studio for firing him from the cast because he refused to get a Covid shot, an appeals court said.