Civil Procedure – Prevailing party may recover 998 expert fees from non-prevailing party even if the prevailing party was not the actual payor of the fees pursuant to an indemnity agreement.
Cases of Interest
Judicial admission that a contractor is licensed is binding depsite a subsequent general denial of licensure in answer to cross-complaint.
“Negligence” standard not sufficient to support a conviction under 18 USC 875(c).
Employment Law – In FEHA cases, a prevailing plaintiff will typically be awarded costs and attorneys fees, but a prevailing defendant will not unless the claim was frivolous, unreasonable, or groundless, or the plaintiff continued to litigate after the claim clearly became so.
Requiring personally identifiable information to complete online credit card transactions does not violate Civil Code section 1747.08, even if consumer picks up the goods in-store.