Represented an aerospace coating manufacturing and systems integration company in a trade secrets
case against former employees, resulting in a favorable resolution and judgment in favor of the client.
Former employers often file
cases against former employees and their new employers alleging breach of non-competition covenants, and the Mavrick Law Firm has successfully defended the new business or new employer.
Andrews Kurth LLP recently secured a significant verdict for Oklahoma City - based Devon Energy in a trade secret and computer fraud
case against a former employee (more...)
Not exact matches
That
case, filed by BPI
against ABC News, Jim Avila, Diane Sawyer, a
former BPI
employee and two
former USDA microbiologists, seeks $ 1.2 billion in damages.
Federal authorities have dismissed charges
against six
former employees of the website Rentboy.com, while continuing to move forward with a
case against the chief executive on counts of money laundering and promoting prostitution.
«Results from a
former AIDS vaccine study have shown that in a worst
case scenario, immunization
against HIV could enhance infection,» says Christiane Stahl - Hennig, who designed the project in cooperation with the
former DPZ
employee Sieghart Sopper.
The high court will also use an employment - discrimination
case from the private sector to clarify whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the main federal job - discrimination law, covers retaliation by employers
against former employees as well as job applicants...
We believe the trial judges will conclude that there is no
case against Shell or its
former employees.»
In the
case of a restrictive covenant sought to be enforced
against a
former employee, agent, or independent contractor, and not associated with the sale of all or a part of:
First up, a New York judge has recused himself in the
case of Floyd v. Cosi, a discrimination suit in which a
former employee alleged Cosi showed bias
against Floyd's race, age and disability in firing him from the restaurant chain.
In a recent Ontario
case, a
former Honda
employee with chronic fatigue syndrome received $ 100,000 when the judge found that he was discriminated
against and harassed.
Obtained a $ 365,000 settlement for a
former employee who alleged wrongful discharge and retaliatory harassment in a race and sex discrimination
case against her
former employer and manager.
Obtained a $ 1.4 million verdict (upheld after appeals) for a
former employee who alleged wrongful discharge and failure to accommodate in a disability discrimination
case against his
former employer and manager.
In most
cases, California law does not permit employers to enforce a restrictive covenant
against their
former employees, particularly when it takes the form of a non-compete agreement.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA), which protects men and women who perform substantially equal work in the same establishment from sex - based wage discrimination; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), which protects individuals who are 40 years of age or older; Title I and Title V of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended (ADA), which prohibit employment discrimination
against qualified individuals with disabilities in the private sector, and in state and local governments; Sections 501 and 505 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibit discrimination
against qualified individuals with disabilities who work in the federal government; Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA), which prohibits employment discrimination based on genetic information about an applicant,
employee, or
former employee; and the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which, among other things, provides monetary damages in
cases of intentional employment discrimination.
In the second
case,
former employee won a $ 1.2 million retaliation verdict
against school district, but the trial judge denied
employee's fee request of $ 791,750 under Labor Code section 218.5 (a)
against the school district.
Secured a $ 3.3 million judgment
against a
former general manager of a division of a Fortune 500 motion control equipment manufacturer in an intricate
employee embezzlement
case involving the theft of more than $ 400,000 in company funds.
Among the firm's most significant results were wins on behalf of Kleiner Perkins in a gender discrimination
case brought by
former partner Ellen Pao, DISH Network in its copyright fight with the four major U.S. broadcast networks, MobileIron in a patent infringement suit
against rival Good Technology, and Broadcom in a Dodd - Frank retaliation claim brought by a
former employee.
Successfully litigated a restrictive covenant
case in Superior Court receiving an injunction
against our client's
former employee for violating his agreement not to solicit customers and accounts.
HYPO # 5: A client filed a grievance
against me, and is claiming that my $ 15,000 flat fee to defend a small business owner
against a lawsuit by a
former employee was unreasonable when I managed to resolve the
case with a letter and a couple of phone calls.
The typical
case involves an employer seeking injunctive relief
against a
former employee who is alleged to be competing or soliciting customers in violation of the restrictive covenant.
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