Source: https://www.gedlaw.com/case-results/
Timestamp: 2019-04-26 10:38:12+00:00

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The success of any lawsuit or settlement depends on the unique circumstances of each case. We cannot guarantee future results based on past successes we have achieved.
In Tichinin v. City of Morgan Hill (2009) 177 Cal.App.4th 1049, we won a news-grabbing published reversal of the trial court’s order granting the City of Morgan Hill’s anti-SLAPP motion. In connection with a local attorney’s constitutionally-protected activities, the City of Morgan Hill adopted a resolution condemning his protected activities and requesting his resignation from the City’s Urban Limit Line Subcommittee. The Court of Appeal’s reversal reinstated the plaintiff attorney’s civil rights lawsuit.
In Cabral v. Martins (2009) 177 Cal.App.4th 471, our attorneys successfully represented attorneys after a former wife brought an action against her former husband and the attorneys who represented him in another action, alleging that they attempted to evade a child support judgment against the former husband through the modification of an estate plan. Our attorneys, on behalf of the former husband’s attorneys, filed a special motion to strike under the anti-SLAPP statute. The trial court granted the motions and awarded attorneys’ fees. In affirming the trial court’s order, the Court of Appeal held that the attorney’s actions in lodging a will with the probate court, defending the husband in litigation, and the will revision itself were protected activity for the purposes of the anti-SLAPP motion.
In Swift v. Superior Court (2009) 172 Cal.App.4th 878, our attorneys won a published reversal of the trial court’s order striking the tenant plaintiffs’ peremptory disqualification of the judge as untimely. The Court of Appeal held that the tenants’ disqualification of the trial judge was timely, even though that judge had presided over earlier discovery motions, since such motions do not involve the determination of fact issues as to the merits of the case.
In Murray’s Iron Works, Inc. v. Boyce (2008) 158 Cal.App.4th 1279, our attorneys won a published reversal of the trial court’s order granting a contractor statutory penalties and attorneys’ fees. The Court of Appeal held that Civil Code §3260.1, which applies to construction contracts involving “progress” payments, does not apply to construction contracts where the only payments are either down payments or payments upon completion.
In Cabesuela v. Browning-Ferris (1998) 68 Cal.App.4th 101, our attorneys, representing the plaintiff, won a published reversal of the trial court’s dismissal of the employee’s claims of wrongful termination in violation of public policy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The Court of Appeal held that a claim of retaliation for an employee’s complaints of job-related safety does not require proof of actual unsafe conditions, but merely that the employee’s complaints were reasonable and made in good faith.
In Williams v. Sun Microsystems, Inc. (2007, Sixth District Court of Appeal, Case No. H029828), our attorneys won a reversal of the trial court’s grant of summary adjudication of the employee’s claim of sexual orientation discrimination. In reversing, the Court of Appeal applied the rule that a senior manager’s discriminatory animus may be imputed to her subordinate decision-makers, thus allowing a jury to find that the adverse employment action was motivated by such illegal animus.
In Crediford v. Oliver (2000, Sixth District Court of Appeal, Case No. H021709), we staved off a petition for coram vobis relief, collaterally attacking a nearly half-million dollar judgment in favor of a pair of residential tenants who won the largest known retaliatory eviction verdict in Santa Clara County.
Obtained one of the largest settlements of its kind for a female high-tech executive in a glass-ceiling discrimination case.
Represented many employers in wage and hour, EDD benefits, and wrongful terminations claims. Our attorneys successfully appealed grant of unemployment benefits in a case where an employee was fired for misconduct.
Represented a retired fireman against the local municipality in a lawsuit related to a broad denial of his retirement benefits, including sick pay cash out, medical premium reimbursements, CalPERS benefits, and more. In the end, the municipality settled, providing the fireman all of the above and more, including significant tort damages.
Represented a C-level executive working for a foreign privately-held corporation in a reverse discrimination and retaliation wrongful termination lawsuit. The matter was decided in binding arbitration in favor of the plaintiff, awarding client significant damages and an entitlement to prevailing party attorneys’ fees.
Represented an employee suing for retaliation based upon her offering deposition testimony favorable to a discrimination lawsuit plaintiff in an unrelated matter. We successfully opposed employer’s attempts to compel the dispute to binding arbitration, leading to settlement.
Represented an employee in a wrongful termination lawsuit based upon breach of an implied employment contract. The employee turned away a $20k severance offer in favor of filing suit and won a settlement almost ten times that amount.
Successfully represented individuals alleged to have misappropriated a company’s trade secrets after the company purchased their prior employer. The case was handled by one of our attorneys in a prior position.
Represented a class of more than 1,000 tenants in a large privately-held apartment complex for claims of fraud and nuisance based upon the large-scale in-fill construction at the property. Class certification was granted, and after a number of failed writ petitions by the landlord, including in the State Supreme Court, the matter settled, providing an average award of $2,500 per apartment unit.
Represented one of the landlords in a multi-acre 98-year ground lease entered into in the 1960’s in an action to cancel the ground lease. After a complex trial, the ground lease was ordered canceled.
Represented two tenants in a vigorously-contested retaliation lawsuit. After a jury trial, we won for our clients the largest retaliatory eviction verdict in Santa Clara County, totaling nearly a half million dollars after prevailing party attorneys’ fees and costs.
In Swift v. Superior Court (2009) 172 Cal.App.4th 878, we won a published reversal of the trial court’s order striking the tenant plaintiffs’ peremptory disqualification of the judge as untimely. The Court of Appeal held that the tenants’ disqualification of the trial judge was timely, even though that judge had presided over earlier discovery motions, since such motions do not involve the determination of fact issues as to the merits of the case.
In Prometheus Real Estate Group, Inc. et al. v. Superior Court (Upadhyay) (2012, Sixth District Court of Appeal, Case No. H037888), we successfully fought back a challenge to the trial court’s order granting certification in a class action lawsuit against a large privately-held landlord, who was sued for fraud and other claims arising out of a massive in-fill construction project in an existing and fully-occupied apartment complex.

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