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California Employment News: Starting a Workplace Investigation – Part 1 (Featured)
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Website operators secured another win in the protracted battle over third-party website cookies last week when a California state court held that these common tech features were not “trap and trace” devices and therefore a...more
Readers of this blog are aware of the barrage of California Invasion of Privacy (“CIPA”) claims brought against online companies. Recently, an unfavorable decision from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (“Ninth Circuit”)...more
A litigation before a court in one jurisdiction may require taking third-party discovery from third parties located in different jurisdictions. Litigants seeking third-party discovery from parties in other states may quickly...more
Businesses just received some good news when a federal court dismissed a California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) claim that aimed to expand the reach of the state’s wiretapping law to cover internet communications. The...more
Last week’s Privilege Point emphasized the difficulty of successfully asserting the common interest doctrine’s application. But in the right circumstances, even litigation adversaries can successfully protect some of their...more
On February 21, 2025, California introduced AB 1415, a bill aimed at expanding the regulatory oversight of the Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA). As discussed in our previous blog, certain health care entities are...more
Consider the following scenarios: A customer repeatedly enters your company’s workplace, berates your employees, uses profanity, and then leaves. (Let’s call her “Cruella.”) Or perhaps a customer consistently comes in and...more
As the debate simmers about the proper application of the wiretapping provisions of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), courts continue to weigh in on what technologies may constitute improper third-party...more
Welcome to the twentieth installment in our monthly data privacy litigation report. We prepare these reports to provide updates on how courts in the United States have handled emerging data privacy trends. After our expansive...more
Despite some favorable rulings, lawsuits alleging California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) claims against companies that use third-party tracking technology to collect consumer data on their websites show no signs of...more
Senate Bill 1103 (also known as the Commercial Tenant Protection Act) (SB 1103) introduces substantive changes affecting commercial leasing practices in California. Signed into law by Governor Newsom on September 30, 2024,...more
The California legislature recently passed Assembly Bill 2424, which, as more fully explained below, will have a significant and imminent impact on the nonjudicial foreclosure process of residential real estate. Existing...more
The surge in consumer privacy claims alleging that the use of third-party tracking technology on websites violates the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) is a topic with which our readers are very familiar. Now, the...more
In a recent decision, Briskin v. Shopify, Inc., 2023 WL 8225346 (9th Cir. Nov. 28, 2023), the Ninth Circuit held that a Canadian-based company, Shopify, which provides a web-based payment processing platform to merchants...more
Keypoint: The Agency proposed more revisions to the CCPA regulations for consideration at the December 8 board meeting. On December 1, 2023, the California Privacy Protection Agency (Agency) published proposed revisions to...more
California’s cannabis industry continues to struggle in this seemingly unending shake out period. Namely, hundreds of licensed cannabis companies are getting stiffed on A/R with an overwhelming inability to collect as those...more
On August 21, 2023, the California Supreme Court held in Raines v. U.S. Healthworks Medical Group that a business entity acting as an employer’s agent can be held directly liable under California’s Fair Employment and Housing...more
California continues to be at vanguard of data privacy rights. The latest effort by California legislators to protect consumer privacy rights focuses on data brokers, who under the proposed California Senate Bill 362, aka...more
Despite all attempts to put the COVID-19 public health emergency in the rearview mirror, the virus is not entirely gone, and the pandemic was not long ago, at least in the law’s long memory. We can reasonably assume we are...more
On April 26, 2023, the Supreme Court of California declined to review the Second District Court of Appeal’s decision in Grosz v. California Dep’t of Tax & Fee Admin. In the underlying case, Stanley Grosz, a business owner...more
Keypoint: In the wake of a recent California decision that allowed claims alleging use of chat functionality on website violated California wiretapping laws, three California district courts have dismissed nearly identical...more
The California Civil Rights Department (CRD) released amended FAQs providing guidance on compliance with the new pay data reporting requirements. PDR FAQs – 2022 Reporting Year | CRD (ca.gov) As previously reported here and...more
A new set of California laws will require online marketplaces to gather verifiable identifying information about high volume third party sellers, or else boot them off the platform. The laws, which seek to combat the resale...more
The City of Oakland was not happy with the decision of the Oakland Raiders football team to move to Las Vegas, Nevada and it was filed a lawsuit alleging that it was a third party beneficiary of the league's relocation...more
On August 24, 2022, California Attorney General Rob Bonta (“AG”) announced a settlement with Sephora, Inc., resolving allegations that the company violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). ...more