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Health your username May 4, 2021 On Monday in the Northern District of California, an individual filed a class-action complaint against Align Technology Inc. over allegations that the company operated an anticompetitive scheme to hold a monopoly on the dental aligner market with its Invisalign and iTero products. Lead plaintiff Misty Snow alleged that Align implemented its scheme for fear of competition entering the market once its intellectual property — constituted by hundreds of patents �...

Updated 3 hours ago NBC Universal, Inc. The man accused of opening fire on five people, killing one person, in the Gaslamp Quarter last week with an unregistered "ghost gun" before he was stopped and tackled by two good Samaritans is due in court Tuesday on an unrelated charge. Travis Sarreshteh, 32, is slated to face a judge in San Diegos East County for a charge of California Business and Professions Code 7582.3(A) in a separate incident. Court filings show hes facing a misdemeanor charge of ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In the 2020 COVID-19 year, there were not that many construction-related cases decided by the California Courts of Appeal, and none by the California Supreme Court. However, there were a number of interesting cases that raise new issues, and others that resolved certain issues. We discuss the key cases below. As an overview, an owner may now be liable to a non-performing subcontractor for contract interference for insisting the genera...

Last year, the California Supreme Court held in Ixchel Pharma, LLC v. Biogen, Inc., that restraints in contracts between businesses should be evaluated using the same “rule of reason” standard that courts use to analyze antitrust violations under the Cartwright Act. Our previous article analyzing the Ixchel decision can be found here.   Recently, in Ixchel to overturn a decision of the San Diego Superior Court (the “Superior Court”). Procedural History The case arises from a dispute...

Health your username February 17, 2021 On Tuesday, the court issued an opinion in a class action brought by Pacific Recovery Solutions against Cigna Behavioral Health Inc. The opinion, issued in the Northern District of California, dealt with a motion to consolidate the case Summit Estate Inc. v. Cigna Health and Life Insurance with the larger Pacific Recovery Solutions case for ease of resolution. Both of the cases involve plaintiff patients and medical providers whose mental health bills had...

Churchill Downs Subsidiary Sues Thoroughbred Owners Of California Over Simulcast Fee Dispute Sponsored by: A subsidiary of Churchill Downs, Inc. that operates advance deposit wagering companies TwinSpires and BetAmerica is suing Thoroughbred Owners of California for invoking state statute in an effort to bring a dispute over simulcast hub fees into binding arbitration. Churchill Downs Technology Initiatives Company (CDTIC) filed the suit on Tuesday in United States District Court Cent...

Five months ago, Brian McMahon did handyman-like things as a hobby. Then everything changed at the end of August when he “took over” his aunt and uncle’s business – Ace Handyman Services. The company serves the south Pittsburgh area. McMahon, long an entrepreneurial spirit, is a full-time businessman with a base in Monongahela and craftsmen in Washington, Donora and Monongahela. “(Being a handyman) myself is still a hobby,” McMahon said. “I do things at home a...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: While most cannabidiol (CBD) manufacturers and sellers focus on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), federal agencies outside the FDA have put their focus on the CBD industry. On Dec. 17, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a “crackdown on deceptively marketed CBD products.” Notably, the FTC alleged that the “companies made unsupported claims that their oils, balms, gummies, coffee, and other goods could t...

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Dentists in California can give COVID-19 vaccines to patients if they complete required training programs and follow state and federal guidelines.