Author: JGREENWALT

September 27, 2024 A San Francisco federal judge indicated Friday that he won’t dismiss a proposed class action against OnlyFans’ parent company alleging the video platform dupes customers into automatically renewing their subscriptions, waving away arguments that a Los Angeles federal judge dismissed a similar suit and asking its lawyers, “So what?” Read more

SAN FRANCISCO – June 26, 2024 – Gaw | Poe LLP announced today that for the fourth straight year, partners Randolph Gaw and Mark Poe were both selected as Northern California Super Lawyers by Super Lawyers.  Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer…

May 21, 2024 California federal judge cemented a rare win under a little-used antitrust law, following up on a December jury verdict against an eye drops company with a decision barring it from offering Costco better terms than the retail wholesaler plaintiffs… Read More

SAN FRANCISCO – April 4, 2024 – Gaw | Poe LLP announced today that it obtained certification of a liability class consisting of the 178 limited partners of CMB Infrastructure Group VII, L.P.—an EB-5 Limited Partnership—on their claims for breach of fiduciary duty and breach of contract against defendant CMB Export, LLC, the general partner of that limited partnership. …

SAN FRANCISCO – December 15, 2023 – Gaw | Poe LLP announced today that it won a jury trial on behalf of its clients against Prestige Brands—a publicly traded company whose subsidiary owns and manufactures the popular Clear Eyes Pocket Pals redness relief eye drop product.  Gaw | Poe’s clients were comprised of various convenience store wholesalers from California…

By James Mills – November 20, 2023, 1:08 PM EST A California federal court on Friday awarded a tobacco company almost $11 million in attorney fees and distributions in a long-running antitrust dispute against rival tobacco company Swisher… Read more

SAN FRANCISCO – October 5, 2023 – Gaw | Poe LLP announced today that it was awarded $862,314.32 in attorney’s fees and $33,410.48 in costs as the culmination of its’ clients civil RICO lawsuit against Tauler Smith LLP—the law firm that had sent numerous demand letters to various small retail stores accusing them of selling certain sexual enhancement pills…

By Jonathan Capriel – August 30, 2023, 8:48 PN EDT Tobacco industry giant Swisher is needlessly taking up everyone’s time by filing a motion for $10 million in fees in a case that it lost on appeal, cigarillo company Trendsettah said in court documents, urging a California federal judge to consider its request for $11…

By Ron Kroichick, Senior Sports Enterprise Reorter – Updated July 21, 2023, 1:49 PM A Superior Court jury ruled in favor of one former University of San Francisco women’s basketball player Thursday, awarding Marija Galic a total of $750,000 because of “intentional infliction of emotional distress” by head coach Molly Goodenbour. The jury ruled against…

By Lauren Berg – July 20, 2023, 11:21 PM EDT A split Ninth Circuit Thursday instructed a California federal judge to take another look at whether family-owned wholesalers proved competition with Costco in the wholesalers’ price discrimination suit against the maker of 5-Hour Energy, saying the judge erred in finding Costco and the wholesalers for…