Mike LaSusa

  • A California court has ordered FilmOn founder Alki David and two of his companies to pay $1.3 million in attorney fees to a former worker who won $11 million in damages earlier this year after a jury found David sexually battered her… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • A California appeals court has upheld Shell Oil’s quick victory in a case blaming the energy giant for wage-and-hour violations, saying the gas station manager who sued Shell couldn’t show the company was his joint employer… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • Tinder Inc. founder Sean Rad and former marketing head Rosette Pambakian asked a California federal court on Tuesday to nix defamation claims by the dating app company’s former CEO Gregory Blatt, saying Blatt’s legal action is part of a “smear campaign” against Pambakian, whom he allegedly sexually assaulted… Read this piece in its entirety at…

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  • Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., on Tuesday criticized DLA Piper, where her husband is a partner, over the firm’s policy of requiring employees to arbitrate employment-based legal claims, after an attorney for an accuser urged the presidential candidate to condemn the practice… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • The union representing Southwest Airlines pilots sued Boeing on Monday in Dallas County court, saying the Chicago-based aerospace giant’s misrepresentations about the safety of its 737 Max jets have cost the pilots tens of millions of dollars in lost wages… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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