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Oakland Asks Calif. Judge To Toss Hero Pay Challenge
Law360 (April 6, 2021, 4:50 PM EDT) The city of Oakland s pandemic hazard pay ordinance for grocery workers fits within the traditional government power to set employment standards and is not preempted by federal labor law, the city said in asking a California federal judge to toss a grocers association s challenge to the pay bump.
In a motion filed Monday, Oakland asked U.S. District Judge William Orrick to dismiss the lawsuit the California Grocers Association filed in February challenging the city s ordinance requiring certain grocery stores to give their workers a $5-per-hour pay increase during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among other things, the CGA alleged the ordinance must fall.
PG&E could be held liable for continued discharges of pollution into the San Francisco Bay that came from a now-demolished gas factory operated at the turn of the century.
This map featured in ongoing litigation against PG&E shows the location of the Cannery gas plant along with three other century-old manufactured gas plants for which PG&E agreed to a $4.2 million settlement in 2018.
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) Rejecting arguments that a utility can’t be sued over century-old pollution, a federal judge signaled Wednesday that he will likely advance a lawsuit seeking to hold Pacific Gas and Electric liable for contamination that occurred more than 100 years ago.
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Friday, March 12, 2021
Antisuit follow-up: deference to foreign jurisdictions ranges from never to always ; and what role could standard-setting organizations play?
First, for the sake of completeness I must point out that the German zero-deference doctrine (sanctity of patents beats everything and warrants self-defense) and the multifactorial analysis performed by U.S. and Chinese courts are not the only two frameworks. There s a spectrum, and the longer it takes to resolve the current antisuit crisis, the more variants we will see.
The extent to which courts in one country defer to injunctions or ongoing SEP-related proceedings in another can range from 0% to 100%. I ll use four words without any intent to allude to a movie title:
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