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Hassell v. Bird was a case heard within the California court system related to a court-ordered removal of a defamatory user review of a law firm from the Yelp website. The case, first heard in the California Court of Appeals, First District, Division Four, unanimously ruled in favor of the law firm, ordering Yelp to remove the review in 2016.
In a tentative settlement, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has agreed to repay customers who were charged too much for sewer service from May 2016 to June 2022.
Journalist David Lazarus of the Los Angeles Times also criticized Yelp in 2014 for the practice of selling competitors' ads to run on top of business listings and then offering to have the ads removed as part of a paid feature. [164] The 2019 film Billion Dollar Bully documents Yelp's alleged business practices. [165] In 2018, in the case ...
The State Bar of California is an administrative division of the Supreme Court of California which licenses attorneys and regulates the practice of law in California. [2] It is responsible for managing the admission of lawyers to the practice of law, investigating complaints of professional misconduct, prescribing appropriate discipline, accepting attorney-member fees, and financially ...
Additionally, a study by the U.S. Department of Labor estimated the existence of over 33,000 serious and ongoing wage violations in Los Angeles's garment industry, which employed over 100,000 workers, but the DIR was issuing fewer than 100 wage citations per year for all industries throughout the state. [21]
Under the agreement with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18, roughly 10,000 workers will receive four "cost of living” pay increases totaling at least 10% and as much ...
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP is a Los Angeles-based law firm of more than 450 attorneys and other professionals founded in 1965. The firm earned revenues of $316.9 million in 2017. The firm earned revenues of $316.9 million in 2017.
The Harvard Law Review Association, Labor and Employment Law – Worker Status – California Adopts the ABC Test to Distinguish Between Employees and Independent Contractors – Assemb. B. 5, 2019–2020 Leg., Reg. Sess. (Cal. 2019)(Enacted)(Codified at Cal. Lab. Code §§ 2750.3, 3351 and Cal. Unemp.