If your company handles other people’s sensitive data through a software vendor, two questions are now urgent. First, can you still rely on the longstanding California defense that says no liability attaches unless an unauthorized party actually viewed the data? And second, when a vendor sits between you and the end users whose information was exposed, who exactly has the …
If your business is sitting on an old written loan that the borrower never repaid, and the only thing keeping your hopes alive is a couple of small, sporadic payments that arrived years after the due date, the California Court of Appeal just handed down a decision you should read carefully. Not because it broke new ground. Because it confirmed, …
If you develop, invest in, or hold property along California’s coast, you already know the California Coastal Commission has enormous influence over what gets built and what doesn’t. For decades, the Commission has exercised broad appellate authority over local permitting decisions, sometimes overriding county approvals on jurisdictional grounds that property owners had limited ability to challenge. The California Supreme Court …
If your company uses a standard employment arbitration agreement, the California Court of Appeal just handed you a reason to pull it out and read it carefully. Not because of a federal statute that’s been generating headlines. Because of California’s own unconscionability doctrine, applied with a level of specificity that should make any employer uncomfortable if the last time anyone …
Horst Legal Counsel | April 2026 If you own, operate, or invest in a hotel or extended-stay property in California, you have probably heard of the “28-day shuffle.” The playbook is familiar: require all guests to check out before they hit 30 consecutive days of occupancy, make them stay away for a few days, and then let them re-register. The …