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Principal Paul Chan was featured in the Law360 article, “Plaintiffs Eye New Target In ‘All-Natural’ Labeling Battles,”
Bird Marella Principal John Rubiner has been appointed to Executive Council of the National Conference of Bar Presidents (NCBP).
Bird Marella represents the Labor Commissioner of the State of California in a series of actions filed by various motor carriers in state and federal courts.
Over the last three months, Bird Marella has had a string of victories in defending class actions. Over that time frame, the firm has defeated and obtained dismissals of three consecutive consumer class actions on behalf of major national and international companies.
Representing fashion retailer Forever 21, Bird Marella obtained another dismissal ending a putative class action lawsuit that alleged Forever 21 stores failed to credit customers with tax paid on items returned for exchanges or store credit.
Making a string of victories defending companies against consumer class actions, Bird Marella represented Hyundai Motor Company and won a key motion to dismiss, ending a nationwide class action lawsuit that alleged product defect.
Though there are significant aggravating factors including identity theft, going to trial, etc., a striking fact about this case is that the total collections in this case were under $1 million but the defendant was sentenced to 121 months. This also appears to be a classic example of the type of ...
A common side effect of settling a health care related criminal accusation is the potential for “exclusion.” Exclusion means that the provider cannot provide any services that will be paid for by federal funds, which effectively means that the provider cannot work for a facility that sees Medicare or Medicaid ...
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles filed a plea agreement Thursday in which Dr. Andrew Sun pled guilty to drug trafficking for prescribing hydrocodone (Vicodin), Soma, and Xanax. This is just one of many such cases and it appears to have been pursued in the usual way, i.e., a ...
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals just issued an important decision that limits the government’s ability to retain non-responsive computer files after executing a search warrant. Assume the government obtains a search warrant for a clinic’s electronic medical records. On the same computer, the doctor maintains her financial information. Because ...
