Lawrence VanDyke became President Donald Trump’s 50th appellate court appointment on Dec. 11 despite an American Bar Association assessment in which his peers called him “lazy, arrogant” and “an ideologue” in finding him unqualified for the job.
Sky Chefs Inc. was hit with a proposed class action Dec. 11 by Los Angeles International Airport catering workers who say the company calculates their overtime pay based on a formula that doesn’t take into consideration Los Angeles’s living wage ordnance.
The year 2020 is predicted to be robust for law firms with healthy revenue growth, but Citi Private Bank is still cautioning law firms in its latest report on the industry to prepare for more uncertainty ahead.
McDonald’s Corp. won’t face rehearing on whether it exercised enough control over a Bay Area franchisee’s workforce to be liable for a franchiser’s alleged violations of California wage law, the Ninth Circuit ruled Dec. 11.
CV Sciences Inc. must face a would-be class suit from investors who said the life sciences firm told them its cannabidiol product was patentable even after its patent application had been rejected, a Nevada federal district judge ruled.