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WHEW! California Mask Mandates For Indoors End

WHEW!  California Mask Mandates For Indoors End Yea! It’s a start.  California’s indoor mask mandate ended and as of today, vaccinated persons do not have to wear masks indoors.  For the unvaccinated, you must still mask-up.  And for anyone in nursing homes, hospitals, and on/in public transportation, you must still...

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DAWN M. COULSON NAMED SUPER LAWYER FOR 2022

DAWN M. COULSON NAMED SUPER LAWYER FOR 2022 Epps & Coulson, LLP is pleased to announce that managing partner Dawn M. Coulson has been named to the Southern California Super Lawyer list for 2022.  This marks the 16th consecutive year (2007 - 2022) that Ms. Coulson has been included in...

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CALIFORNIA MASK MANDATE ABOUT TO CHANGE

CALIFORNIA MASK MANDATE ABOUT TO CHANGE With the Omicron cases rapidly declining across the state and hospitalizations having been stabilized, California will lift its universal mask mandate for indoor public places next week.  The mask mandate was reinstated on December 15, 2021, as a tool to decrease the spread of...

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California’s New COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave Proposal

California’s New COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave Proposal Amid the national surge in COVID-19 cases, on January 25, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom along with Senate President pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, announced a “framework” to ensure California employees have continued access to supplemental COVID-19 paid...

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Appealing A Court Decision

Appealing A Court Decision All is not lost.  If you’ve gotten an adverse ruling in a lawsuit, you may be able to turn it around on appeal.  But an appeal is not a re-do of the trial court argument.  The burdens, inferences and presumptions in the appellate court are different. ...

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GOOGLE GOT SLAPPED – EMPLOYEE CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENTS ARE TOO BROAD AND EQUATE TO AN ILLEGAL NON-COMPETE

GOOGLE GOT SLAPPED – EMPLOYEE CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENTS ARE TOO BROAD AND EQUATE TO AN ILLEGAL NON-COMPETE High tech and entertainment companies in California are known for requiring that employees sign broad non-disclosure agreements or confidentiality agreements (“NDAs”).  A California judge ruled last week that the Google’s NDAs are too broad...

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SAY IT AIN’T SO: EMPLOYERS ADVISED TO FIRE UNVACCINATED?

SAY IT AIN’T SO:  EMPLOYERS ADVISED TO FIRE UNVACCINATED? State courts across the country have upheld employers' mandatory vaccination policies. Those decisions are winding their way toward the Supreme Court, which will likely have to weigh in on the enforceability of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (“OSHA”) emergency temporary rules...

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EVICTION AND RENT INCREASE MORATORIUM UPDATE

 EVICTION AND RENT INCREASE MORATORIUM UPDATE Los Angeles CITY extends Local Emergency to January 8, 2023 Los Angeles City eviction moratorium is extended through January 8, 2023, and then it will be considered for further extension on a month-to-month basis.  The Los Angeles Housing Department (“LAHD”) website[1], under the tenant...

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