Customer service rivals [24]7 and LivePerson will face off next week before a California jury in a case that alleges LivePerson misappropriated trade secrets to secure outsourcing deals with Sears, Capital One and Optus plus, a look at all the other major intellectual property matters that are on deck for the coming week.
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2015 Federal district judge Jon S. Tigar denies the state of California’s request for a stay, pending appeal, of his preliminary injunction ordering the state (supposedly pursuant to the Eighth Amendment) to provide prisoner Jeffrey Norsworthy “sex reassignment surgery as promptly as possible.”
Tigar agrees that the state’s appeal raises a serious legal question but he concludes that the state can’t show irreparable injury from denial of the stay. Never mind that, if the mutilation-as-surgery goes forward, the state will never be able to recover the costs of surgery that it incurs. Tigar’s denial of the stay is evidently designed to render the matter moot what relief could the state obtain post-surgery? and thus immunize his own ruling from appellate review.
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9th Circ. OKs $52M Fee For Attys In Wells Fargo Suit
Law360 (April 19, 2021, 9:20 PM EDT) The Ninth Circuit has affirmed a lower court s $52 million award to the legal team representing shareholders in a derivative action against the brass at Wells Fargo claiming they were responsible for employees creating unauthorized customer accounts to help meet aggressive sales goals.
In an unpublished opinion filed Friday, the three-judge panel found that U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar of the Northern District of California had appropriately weighed the counsel fee request and related details when he determined that Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP and Saxena White PA attorneys could have a 22% cut of the $240 million settlement.
Judge upholds gag order on SF Bay View editor
Judge upholds gag order on SF Bay View editor
March 13, 2021
Banners bold and brave ringed the street in front of private prison profiteer GEO Group’s so-called 111 Taylor St. Apartments, actually a halfway house for returning federal and state prisoners, on Sunday, March 7, for the Free Malik rally that brought 200 supporters to the tough Tenderloin in downtown San Francisco. Malik Washington is the SF Bay View’s new editor, who risked a return to prison to publicly expose a covered-up COVID outbreak at the center. – Photo: Terry Scussel, ProBonoPhoto.org
Malik Washington now faces sanctions – and maybe a return to prison – for telling the press and public about a COVID outbreak at a private halfway house.
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