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Employment and commercial agreements often treat the governing-law paragraph as boilerplate—something copied, pasted, and rarely revisited. Tuufuli is a reminder that, at least in the arbitration context, a few carefully chosen words can do real work. If an arbitration agreement expressly states that it is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), a California Court of Appeal may enforce that …
California’s latest climate decision, In re Fuel Industry Climate Cases, pushes the law of specific personal jurisdiction another step forward—and national businesses that sell, brand, or market into the state should pay attention. The First District Court of Appeal held that California courts can exercise specific jurisdiction over Citgo Petroleum, an out-of-state company, based on decades of branded gasoline …
People procrastinate. It’s in our nature. And, paradoxically, the bigger the project, the more we tend to put things off. This tendency becomes particularly problematic in the context of bringing a lawsuit in attempt to remedy harm that has befallen you at someone else’s hands. This is because all claims against third parties (in California and any other jurisdiction in …