By Amanda Bronstad | January 14, 2021
A bankruptcy judge on Wednesday ordered Los Angeles plaintiffs firm Girardi Keese and its founder, Tom Girardi, into Chapter 7 proceedings, leaving thousands of lawsuits on hold and now under the microscope of trustees. Some of the biggest cases include thousands of people in Los Angeles affected by a 2015 gas leak and victims of the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas.
By Amanda Bronstad | December 14, 2020
U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin of the Northern District of Illinois, who is overseeing lawsuits brought over the Boeing's Max 8 crash in Indonesia in 2018, found that Girardi and his firm were unable to account for $2 million remaining unpaid to four of Girardi's clients, who are "widows" and "orphans."
By Alaina Lancaster | November 19, 2020
California's Second District Court of Appeal found that the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act does not preempt the state labor law.
By Cheryl Miller | November 4, 2020
The measure's passage threatens to upend legal challenges to gig companies' practice of classifying drivers as independent contractors.
By Amanda Bronstad | October 30, 2020
California voters are set to decide Nov. 3 whether drivers of Uber and other app-based ride-hailing firms should be independent contractors or employees. One lawyer who has sued Uber over worker classification called Proposition 22 the "equivalent to a $1.5 billion presidential campaign for a single issue."
By Alaina Lancaster | October 28, 2020
The requested temporary restraining order would have required the ridesharing company to inform all California drivers that it would not use any information it had gathered about how drivers plan to vote on Proposition 22 against them.
By Alaina Lancaster | October 26, 2020
In the two separate lawsuits, Uber drivers claim that the company is pressuring them to support Proposition 22 and that its star rating system is discriminatory against nonwhite drivers.
By Cheryl Miller | October 22, 2020
"The People counter, correctly, that a party suffers no grave or irreparable harm by being prohibited from violating the law and that defendants' financial burdens do not rise to the level of irreparable harm," wrote Associate Justice Jon Streeter of California's First District Court of Appeal.
By Cheryl Miller | October 13, 2020
Uber and Lyft have argued that Judge Ethan Schulman's injunction, issued Aug. 10, was premature, too broad and did not account for the operating practices of the two ride-hailing giants or the impacts it would have on thousands of drivers.
By Alaina Lancaster | October 7, 2020
"One of the options is shutting down," West said. "We are thinking very hard at all different eventualities, and at the end of the day, the law is the law, and we will comply."
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