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The act provides immunity to the State of California and its related entities from being sued. The law immunizes public employees from liability for “instituting or prosecuting any judicial or administrative proceeding” within the scope of their employment, “even if” the employees act “maliciously and without probable cause.” (Cal. Gov. Code, § 821.6)
In September 1996, four Burmese villagers filed suit against Unocal and its parent company, the Union Oil Company of California under the Alien Tort Claims Act (also known as the Alien Tort Statute), and in October 1996, another fourteen villagers also brought suit. [1]
(The Center Square) - California was ranked the nation’s fifth-worst “judicial hellhole” this year, improving from its third-place ranking last year by the American Tort Reform Foundation, a ...
[9] The plaintiffs raised several federal claims under the Alien Tort Claims Act, the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991, and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). They also alleged California state law claims of wrongful death, assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence per se ...
California’s Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) was originally passed to help workers file claims for labor law violations. Unfortunately, the law is being grossly manipulated, with attorneys ...
Filed on behalf of more than 365,000 policy holders, the class-action lawsuit accuses the state's insurance of last resort of unlawfully selling subpar fire insurance policies.
Full case name: Gladys Escola, Respondent, v. Coca Cola Bottling Company of Fresno (a Corporation), Appellant. Citation(s) 24 Cal.2d 453, 150 P.2d 436: Case history; Prior history: Appeal from a judgment upon a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff: Subsequent history: none: Holding; Judgment for plaintiff affirmed under res ipsa loquitur. Court ...
agent of a party to a contract cannot state a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 because he himself does not have rights to make or enforce under the contract Dolan v. United States Postal Service: 546 U.S. 481 (2006) scope of immunity of the United States Postal Service under the Federal Tort Claims Act: Arbaugh v. Y & H Corporation: 546 U.S. 500 ...
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