TOP 20 THINGS TO REMEMBER BEFORE YOUR DEPOSITION OVERVIEW Depositions play an indispensable role in civil litigation. Simply put, a deposition is the questioning of a witness under oath, in the presence of a court reporter, who is trained to take down every word of...
CALIFORNIA’S ELDER ABUSE STATUTE: RECENT VICTORY AND ENFORCEMENT INSIGHTS MBK CHAPMAN ATTORNEY VICTORIOUS IN PROTECTING A SENIOR CITIZEN’S RIGHTS UNDER CALIFORNIA’S ELDER ABUSE STATUTE On September 5, 2023, a Long Beach jury ordered Ken Allen Lamphear, a...
CALIFORNIA HOA RESERVE STUDIES: WHAT HOMEOWNERS NEED TO KNOW OVERVIEW HOAs in California are largely governed by the Davis-Stirling Act, a series of statutes located in the Civil Code. In other words, all HOAs in California must abide by the Davis-Stirling Act, as...
SECTION 230, FREE SPEECH, AND ONLINE LIABILITY OVERVIEW This week, the United States Supreme Court is set to hear two separate cases challenging the legal immunity that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (“CDA”) has provided to online platforms and...
CCPA AND CPRA: CALIFORNIA’S EVOLVING CONSUMER PRIVACY LAWS OVERVIEW In 2018, the State of California passed a sweeping consumer privacy protection law called the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). Then, in November of 2020, voters in California passed...
