Website owners brought a class action against Google for displaying related items of interest including competitors' ads and uncomplimentary customer reviews along with copies of the owner's website page in response to a browser user's request to open that website page. This decision holds that the website owners have an insufficient property interest in the copy of the webpage Google… Read More
Plaintiff wanted to give her cat "a good death." She alleged an actionable fraud claim against the defendant vet for promising to give the cat a painless death, thereby getting plaintiff to agree to an intracardiac injection. Plaintiff suffered damage from her reliance on that representation when her cat suffered a long and painful death instead. Plaintiff also stated a… Read More
A Controller notice of noncompliance under CCP 1576 is not a prerequisite to a false claims action for failre to report (reverse false claim) and pay (conversion) unclaimed property to the State of California. The complaint in this case adequately alleged that cashier's checks were similar written instruments to money orders and thus that the banks had an obligation to… Read More
An employee cannot state a claim against his employer based on a theory of “receiving stolen property” on the basis that the employer “received” the employee's labor without paying the agreed price for it. Read More
To state a conversion claim, a plaintiff need only allege ownership or the right to possession of the converted property, not both ownership and right to possession. Read More
