A residential tenant failed in her effort to hold a property owner’s trustee liable for injuries she suffered for a fall in the dark. In Castellon v. US Bancorp, the court determined that the trustee was not liable because the tenant’s injuries arose not from the existence of an unsafe…
A California appellate court demonstrated the considerable extensiveness of the rights of employees to be free from discrimination in the workplace with its recent decision in Rope v. Auto-Chlor System of Washington, Inc. The court concluded that the employer’s decision to fire an organ-donating employee rather than comply with a…
A trucker’s ill-advised decision to stop along the side of Interstate 210 in southern California precipitated a gruesome crash in which two children watched their parents and a sibling burn to death four years ago. This month a Los Angeles County jury issued a judgment awarding the youngest child more…
In the wake of a controversial termination of a San Diego schoolteacher who was a victim of domestic violence, the California legislature has passed, and Governor Jerry Brown signed, a new law expanding the reach of the state’s anti-discrimination laws to include victims of sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking.…