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Published: June 7, 2023
The Labor & Employment Law Blog
Our prior blog, “New Year, New Minimum Wage,” discussed local minimum wage changes effective January 1st in California and noted certain expected increases in July 1st. The July 1st increases have now been confirmed.
Published: June 6, 2023
The recent 9th Circuit opinion in US Chamber of Commerce v. Bonta struck down AB 51, determining that it was preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act. Meagan Bainbridge and Lukas Clary review how this decision impacts the use of mandatory arbitration agreements for California employers in this episode of California Employment News.
Published: June 5, 2023
Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH), the fifth-largest Catholic health system in the U.S., has partnered with independent, full-service ambulatory surgery center (ASC) management partner and Weintraub client Compass Surgical Partners to expand outpatient surgical care within the BSMH health system.
Published: June 2, 2023
The Trademark Trial and Appeals Board denied an application to register a trademark for essential oil dispensers meant to fill smoking devices with cannabis-based oils. Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler talk about this case on this episode of The Briefing.
Published: June 1, 2023
In GoTV Streaming, LLC v. Netflix, Inc., 2-22-cv-07556 (CDCA May. 24, 2023) (Shashi H. Kewalramani), the Central District of California denied Defendant Netflix’s attempts to compel Plaintiff GoTV Streaming to provide documents and further information as to the source of the litigation funding that GoTV received in conjunction with the patent litigation.
On May 31st, Weintraub shareholders Meagan Bainbridge and Ryan Abernethy will present a seminar titled The Employment Start-Up Kit for Startups for StartupSac. The event will review the common legal and human resource issues that startups may encounter as they begin to grow, including:
Published: May 26, 2023
Major League Baseball player Aaron Judge went before the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board to block a person’s attempt to secure trademark rights for slogans that play on his name. Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss this dispute on this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog.
Published: May 26, 2023
Production has begun in Rome on the new gladiator action series presented by Weintraub client AGC Studios along with High End Productions, “Those About to Die.” Directed by Roland Emmerich (“Independence Day”), the series features a star-studded cast led by Anthony Hopkins (“The Father”) and including Iwan Rheon (“Game of Thrones”) and Johannes Haukur Johannesson (“Vikings”).
Published: May 25, 2023
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Ryan E. Abernethy
The Labor & Employment Law Blog
Almost exactly one year ago, the California Supreme Court issued its decision in Gustavo Naranjo v Spectrum Security Services, Inc. (“Naranjo”), reviewing a decision by the Second Appellate District (the “Appellate Court”) in 2019. As we discussed in our California Employment News episode at that time (available here on YouTube, or here on our podcast) and here on our blog, the Supreme Court’s decision opened the flood-gates for employees to recover waiting-time and wage statement penalties whenever meal or rest period premiums went unpaid. This ruling immediately hyper-inflating the value of many wage and hour class actions across the state. On remand, the Appellate Court halted this inflation in some instances by clarifying that such penalties are not available to a class of employees where the employer has a good faith dispute that the premiums were due.
Published: May 25, 2023
In a closely watched copyright case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Andy Warhol’s portraits of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. The decision affirms a previous ruling by the Second Circuit, which found that Warhol’s artwork shared the same commercial purpose as the original photograph taken by photographer Lynn Goldsmith.