REPRESENTATIVE CASES
- Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) action. Issues concerned application of burden shifting.
- Hostile work environment action. Issue was whether there was a triable issue concerning workplace harassment based on ethnicity.
- FEHA race discrimination action. Issue concerned whether plaintiff had to prove that persons of a different race received the employment terms he sought.
- FEHA action based on weight discrimination. Issues included whether the evidence showed that the employer considered the employee to be handicapped based on her weight and whether jury instructions were prejudicial with respect to the employer’s mixed motives.
- Employee sued university for wrongful termination. Issues concerned whether employee had adequately alleged a termination in violation of public policy.
- Employee sued for wrongful discharge in violation of public policy and breach of implied contract. Issues concerned whether these claims were supported by allegations/evidence and the calculation of damages.
- Wrongful termination action. Issues were whether parole evidence was admissible to establish existence of implied contract and whether there was sufficient evidence of breach.
- Malpractice action. Issues concerned the limitations period and whether expert testimony was needed to establish breach.