Overview: Surrogacy agreements, where a woman becomes a gestational carrier for would-be parents, are becoming more common. In our case today, the would-be father’s sperm and ova from an anonymous donor were used for in vitro fertilization resulting in triplets. Be careful what you wish ... Read more >
Overview: Today’s Law Review is geared to builders. The California Civil Code requires owners to pay general contractors and general contractors to pay subcontractors promptly or face severe consequences. Many builders have no clue about these useful so-called prompt payment codes. Owner Must Pay ... Read more >
Overview: Banana Republic frequently features ‘40% off’ sales, and I am a regular customer at the Reno Sparks Outlet Store, however not everyone is as enamored, as the Banana was sued in a class action for advertising 40% off but not also disclosing that not ... Read more >
Overview: Think twice before you cut or trim your neighbor’s trees to improve your view. California's laws for wrongful and malicious tree and timber cutting just got enhanced by the new case of Fulle v. Kanani, where the Court of Appeal allowed treble damages not only ... Read more >
Overview: Jim Porter had fun this week writing about the most downloaded woman on the Internet, a soft porn star named Danni Ashe who claimed she was defamed when everyone’s favorite tabloid, the Daily Mail, wrote an inflammatory story on a porn star in LA ... Read more >
Overview: Enough Snow Already! It's been a heavy winter; yes we need snow but... to give you a little smile during breaks from shoveling snow, here are two cute, not true, but funny lawyer stories. OMG, we need a break. Enough Snow Already. To ... Read more >
Overview: Non competition clauses—where an employee or franchisee or anyone else signs an agreement not to compete after leaving—with few exceptions, are illegal in California, yet many employers and businesses make their employees sign agreements that they will not compete after they leave. After the ... Read more >
Overview: California has some of the strongest gun control laws in the country, no doubt the most rigorous in all the land. That does not sit well with Second Amendment advocates who challenge almost all new laws regulating buying or owing a gun, as was ... Read more >
Overview: Our Legislature passed a significant new ADA law mandating that commercial property owners and landlords add new notices to commercial leases, starting January 1, 2017. The notices are to inform would-be tenants whether the building is ADA compliant; read Civil Code 1938 and know ... Read more >
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