Angela Underwood

Northern California Record • 10th April 2018

Proposition 65 benefits private activists, lawyers, Cato Institute fellow says

LOS ANGELES — Following a court ruling based on a voter proposition requiring cancer warnings on coffee, a senior fellow for constitutional studies at the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center has suggested California voter initiatives should come...

Northern California Record • 27th March 2018

Northern District of California judge dismisses software patent-infringement complaint

SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has ruled on a patent-infringement case that plaintiffs allege goes back almost a decade. Judge Haywood Gilliam Jr. granted a motion to dismiss sought by defendants Sap...

Northern California Record • 11th January 2018

Legality of credit card surcharges affirmed on appeal

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed summary judgment for commerce credit card surcharges. Judges Diarmuid O’Scannlain, Johnnie Rawlinson and Sarah Vance affirmed a summary judgment appeal for five California businesses that challenged...

Northern California Record • 12th July 2017

San Diego Water Authority discusses ruling in dispute with Metropolitan Water District

SAN FRANCISCO — Dennis Cushman, assistant general manager of the San Diego Water Authority, recently told the Northern California Record that the most fundamental issue at stake in the authority's dispute with the Metropolitan Water District is...

Northern California Record • 26th July 2017

California First District Court of Appeals affirms ruling in insurance case

SAN FRANCISCO -- The California First District Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court's summary judgment, but reversed the fee award in an excess insurance liability case. The plaintiff, the Marin Schools Insurance Authority (MSIA) may have been...

Northern California Record • 5th July 2017

California First District Court of Appeal reversed decision in employee compensation dispute

SAN FRANCISCO — A California appeals court recently reversed a trial court’s decision to award an employee damages for unpaid labor instead of issuing a judgement for breach of contract and violations of federal and state labor laws. The suit stems...

Northern California Record • 22nd June 2017

Appeals court rules in favor of Rossdale Group LLC in malicious prosecution suit

SAN JOSE — The California Sixth District Court of Appeal recently reversed a trial court's decision in a malicious prosecution lawsuit. The June 15 ruling revived a dismissed suit that started in 2010 when Timothy Walton, who claims to be a licensed...

Northern California Record • 1st October 2020

Colgate-Palmolive settles lawsuit claiming cancerous fibers in baby powder

LOS ANGELES - A Southern California man claiming Colgate-Palmolive baby powder caused him cancer has reached a settlement with the major brand before the trial even started. Paul Garcia, who claimed he suffers from mesothelioma due to inhaling cancer...

Northern California Record • 1st October 2020

9th Circuit rules man has no legal interest in biological mother's estate

SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of a man's case over his biological mother's estate. Judges Gary Katzmann and Kim McLane Wardlaw, who respectively delivered the opinion and concurred, and Judges M....

Northern California Record • 1st October 2020

Ninth Circuit upholds lower court decision denying injunction of the Voter's Choice Act

SAN FRANCISCO – A panel of judges of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the denial of a request for a preliminary injunction enjoining the California Voter’s Choice Act (VCA). In a June 22 opinion, authoring Judge John B. Owens...

Northern California Record • 1st October 2020

Appeals court upholds denial of car owner's right to intervene in government case against VW

A three-judge panel for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld a district court’s ruling that a Volkswagen owner had no right to intervene in U.S. government’s Clean Air Act enforcement action against the carmaker regarding the...

Northern California Record • 1st October 2020

Judge throws out copyright lawsuit filed by ex-lover against author Emma Cline

SAN FRANCISCO –– A federal judge dismissed a copyright claim by the romantic partner of Emma Cline, author of the 2016 best-selling novel "The Girls." In the June 28 order, Judge William H. Orrick of the Northern District of California found Cline...