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(This was originally published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal on June 29, 2010. Reprinted and/or posted with the permission of Daily Journal Corp. (2010).)
Protecting Investments in Medical Insurance
By Scott H.Z. Sumner
The decision of the 1st District Court of Appeal in Yanez v. SOMA Environmental Engineering Inc. 2010 DJDAR 9720 (June 24) once again protects [...]

The surviving family members of a young woman who was killed and decapitated in an automobile accident have a right to seek damages against the California Highway Patrol officers who e-mailed photographs of the young woman’s mutilated corpse to their own family members.

Information about potential carcinogens in meat that is normally required under Prop 65 was ruled to conflict with the Federal Meat Inspection Act and is prohibited.

A California appellate court upheld state authorities’ decision to terminate a Los Angeles pharmacy’s Medi-Cal contract after investigators witnessed employees who were not pharmacists dispensing drugs.

Dr. Mitra Bolbolan MacMillan claimed to be a clinical associate professor five years after she had left the unpaid position.

“The employer is not so absolute a sovereign of the job that there are not limits to his prerogative.”

The California Supreme Court today made it easier for victims of on-the-job harassment to prove their cases, but restricted the amount of punitive damages the victim in Monday’s case can collect from employers.