Below you'll find a list of all posts from August, 2026
If your company is thinking about challenging a rate or fee that a city or public agency just imposed, you’re probably focused on the merits. Is the charge too high? Does it fold in costs it shouldn’t? Those are the questions that eventually win a case. But in California there’s a threshold question that can end the fight before a …
If your business pays a tax to a California city and believes the city got the number wrong, you’d expect a straight path to challenge it. For years, some cities made that path anything but straight. They stacked their own refund procedures on top of the state’s claim rules, so a company seeking a local tax refund had to move …
Every company that makes a product makes bets: what to build next, how fast to develop it, when to launch. Plaintiffs’ lawyers found a way to turn those bets into a lawsuit. The theory was simple. Don’t argue the product you sold was defective. Argue that you should have released a safer alternative sooner, and that the delay is what …