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Frivolous litigation is the use of legal processes with apparent disregard for the merit of one's own arguments. It includes presenting an argument with reason to know that it would certainly fail, or acting without a basic level of diligence in researching the relevant law and facts.
Lawrence Bittaker, who together with his partner Roy Norris was convicted of torturing, raping and murdering five young girls in 1979, filed 40 separate frivolous lawsuits against the state of California, including one claiming "cruel and unusual punishment" after being served a broken cookie. In 1993, he was declared a vexatious litigant and ...
In re: High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation (U.S. District Court, Northern District of California 11-cv-2509 [10]) is a class-action lawsuit on behalf of over 64,000 employees of Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar and Lucasfilm (the last two are subsidiaries of Disney) against their employer alleging that their wages were ...
Unable to afford to fight these claims, another non-profit member that operates in Southern California settled a PAGA lawsuit for $335,000. The plaintiffs’ attorneys received $195,000, while ...
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The lawsuits drove the company to declare bankruptcy in 1995, before it agreed to pay $2.3 billion to settle claims from 240,000 women in amounts ranging from $2,000 to $250,000 each in 2004 ...
“When lawyers file a lawsuit, we are duty-bound to ensure it is based on solid facts, backed by law and free from any intent to harass or waste the court’s time,” the group of more than 100 ...
Section 17204 authorizes the Attorney General, district attorneys, county counsels and city attorneys to file lawsuits on behalf of injured citizens. [13] Prior to Proposition 64, any consumer, regardless of whether they were adversely affected by unfair business acts, could bring a UCL action. [ 14 ]