Appellate Law News and Insights

Even before COVID-19, coffee companies were navigating the safety challenges of serving hot beverages to customers. On August 18, 2020 – almost 26-years after the infamous Liebeck hot coffee lawsuit – the California Court of Appeals for the Second District affirmed in an unpublished opinion the dismissal of a woman's...

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Highlights A U.S. court of appeals reversed a district court's grant of summary judgment upholding a plan administrator's benefit denial. The court found that the district court erroneously deferred to the plan administrator's determination on the benefits claim, because the plan language granting discretion to the plan administrator was contained...

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We've all seen the signs - No Shoes, No Shirt, No Service. Their exact origin may be unknown but these signs appear to have come to popularity in the 1960s and 1970s as a response by businesses to keep "long-haired hippies" out of stores and restaurants. Or maybe they were...

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