On May 1st, 2018, Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley of the U.S. District Court for the Ninth Circuit consolidated three proposed class actions that charge Pacific Fertility Clinic in San Francisco with breach of contract and negligence relating to the destruction of stored eggs and embryos in the wake of cryogenic storage
Lieff Cabraser’s house band The R-23s will be returning to the competitive stage at the upcoming 2018 “Banding Together to End Domestic Violence” annual battle-of-the-law-firm-bands fundraiser. As last year’s champs, Lieff Cabraser’s R-23s will return on June 20 at The Chapel nightclub to defend their title of “Best Lawyer Band in The Bay Area.”
On April 30, 2018, Lieff Cabraser partner Mark P. Chalos spoke to National Public Radio (NPR) about the lawsuit filed by the City of Nashville, TN against the pharmaceutical industry in the wake of the opioid drug epidemic plaguing the Nashville area as well as the rest of Tennessee and the wider United States.
Last Thursday at The Chapel in San Francisco, seven legal professional bands, including Lieff Cabraser’s powerhouse R-23s, came together to perform at the Sixth Annual Law Rocks San Francisco “Battle of the Bands” fundraising event for local nonprofits. First-timers to Law Rocks, the R-23s strutted their stuff in support of Ms. JD, a nonprofit whose
On April 9, 2018, a coalition of over 20 public interest child advocacy groups including the Center for Digital Democracy and the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission asking that the FTC begin a formal investigation of YouTube for significant violations of U.S. child privacy laws.
Lieff Cabraser partner Annika K. Martin will be speaking at HB Litigation’s Class Action Mastery conference in New York City on May 9, 2018. The conference, which runs through May 11, is intended to provide “a practical deep dive for plaintiff attorneys” on class action work.
In litigation arising out of a massive 2015 oil spill off the California coast, U.S. District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez has certified a class of property owners and real property lessees who are suing Plains All American for harm from additive-filled toxic oil that oozed into coastal beaches after an underground rupture spewed crude oil
SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESSWIRE)—On April 17, 2018, Lieff Cabraser filed a Class Action Complaint in federal court in San Francisco on behalf of women who stored their frozen eggs and embryos against Pacific Fertility Center and Prelude Fertility, Inc., alleging, among other things, negligence, negligent infliction of emotional distress, breach of contract, conversion, violation of unfair competition
On April 16, 2018, Judge Terry J. Hatter, Jr. of the United States District Court for the Central District of California issued an Order rejecting defendants Mercedes-Benz USA and Daimler AG’s motions to strike and dismiss plaintiffs’ First Amended Complaint in the litigation over allegations of defective, mold-harboring climate control systems in numerous Mercedes-Benz vehicles.
Multiple Lieff Cabraser attorneys will be participating in HarrisMartin’s Southern California Wildfires and Mudslide Litigation Conference on May 8, 2018 at The Ritz-Carlton in Marina del Ray, California.