Callahan & Blaine Attorney, Sharon Yuen, scored an impressive victory for her client, Boffo Cinemas LLC against Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company in Friday’s ruling which allows the California movie theater and restaurant chain to amend its suit that seeks coverage for the over $30 million it lost because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The California Court of Appeals found that certain provisions in…
In July 2022, Callahan & Blaine secured a more than $1 million arbitration award on behalf of its client, an executive and minority owner in two cannabis ventures in Colorado and California. The case involved claims by Callahan & Blaine’s client that the majority owners in the cannabis ventures failed to adequately compensate him for…
A federal judge has concluded that PG&E’s uninsulated power conductors may have been the cause of California’s deadly wildfires over the past two years. U.S District Judge William Alsup’s decision will push a PG&E equipment inspection and tree-pruning program. Court documents say that it tentatively found that the most common cause of the 2017 and…
On Wednesday Walmart Inc. settled a nine-year-old case for $65 million to almost 100,000 current and former California Walmart cashiers. The cashiers accused Walmart of not providing them with sufficient seating during their shifts. The settlement, which includes the provision that Walmart will start ensuring adequate seating be available for its California cashiers, still requires…
Seven current and former executives at Tinder along with the company’s original founders have filed suit against the parent companies of the dating app seeking $2 billion in damages. The lawsuit alleges that the firms undermined the app’s valuation to prevent them from receiving billions of dollars in stock options. The suit was filed Tuesday,…
Callahan & Blaine announced today that a final settlement in the Orange County Register class action case (Gonzalez, et al. v. Freedom Communications, Inc., et al., Orange County Superior Court, Case No. 03CC08756) has been reached. In the settlement, the directors and officers of Freedom Communications, the parent of the OC Register, agreed to pay…
On Friday, August 5, 2011, a jury in Fresno, California returned a complete defense verdict for the widow of a Palm Desert man who allegedly ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes in California. Marc P. Miles and Kristy A. Schlesinger of Callahan & Blaine in Santa Ana, California, defended Kathy Otto in a class…
A federal jury in Los Angeles has awarded $731,450 to Callahan & Blaine client AMI Services, Inc. of Huntington Beach, California, in its suit against Dominion Advertising for breach of contract. AMI was forced to sue Dominion Advertising, a Virginia-based company owned and operated by Brien Johnson, for breach of contract after Dominion refused to…
Callahan & Blaine, California’s premier litigation firm, recently debuted a litigation news channel on YouTube that features periodic video feeds from founding partner Daniel J. Callahan on contemporary legal topics. Today, Daniel gives viewers tips for hiring the correct attorney for your legal needs, including tips on how to research potential lawyers to represent you…
An interview with Daniel J. Callahan of Callahan & Blaine has been included in the new book, Critical Mass: The Power of CEO Guiding Principles by Richard Franzi and Doug Gfeller, hosts of the Critical Mass weekly radio show in Orange County. Here is an excerpt of that interview: A: One of the principles that…