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By Jonathan Capriel – August 30, 2023, 8:48 PN EDT Tobacco industry giant Swisher is needlessly taking up everyone’s time by filing a motion for $10 million in fees in a case that it lost on appeal, cigarillo company Trendsettah said in court documents, urging a California federal judge to consider its request for $11…

By Ron Kroichick, Senior Sports Enterprise Reorter – Updated July 21, 2023, 1:49 PM A Superior Court jury ruled in favor of one former University of San Francisco women’s basketball player Thursday, awarding Marija Galic a total of $750,000 because of “intentional infliction of emotional distress” by head coach Molly Goodenbour. The jury ruled against…

By Lauren Berg – July 20, 2023, 11:21 PM EDT A split Ninth Circuit Thursday instructed a California federal judge to take another look at whether family-owned wholesalers proved competition with Costco in the wholesalers’ price discrimination suit against the maker of 5-Hour Energy, saying the judge erred in finding Costco and the wholesalers for…

SAN FRANCISCO – March 16, 2023 – Gaw | Poe LLP announced today that it has won a civil RICO jury trial on behalf of its clients. Gaw | Poe represented three small retail stores (“the Stores”) that had received demand letters accusing them of selling certain sexual enhancement pills in violation of the federal Lanham Act and federal…

By Mark PoeJanuary 9, 2023 Over the last year, three of the four current FTC Commissioners (one seat is vacant) have indicated an interest in renewed enforcement of the Robinson-Patman Act as a potential means of policing anticompetitive conduct. The most robust support has been voiced by Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya, who delivered a speech on the…

December 20, 2022 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE) The San Francisco-based law firm of Gaw | Poe LLP announced today that it recently filed a class action lawsuit against Fenix International Ltd., the parent company of OnlyFans.com. The lawsuit alleges that Fenix fails to comply with California law when it automatically renews…

By Jonathan Capriel – December 5, 2022, 2:38 PM EST The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear tobacco company Swisher’s requets to overcome a $9.1 million jury verdict over claims of breach of contract made by a smaller rival, Trendsettah USA Inc… Read more

By Hailey Konnath (April 15, 2022, 9:30 PM EDT) The Ninth Circuit on Friday partially reinstated a California federal jury’s $44.4 million verdict against tobacco company Swisher, ruling that the district court had incorrectly found that rival tobacco company Trendsettah committed “fraud on the court.”… Read more

SAN FRANCISCO – August 1, 2022 – Gaw | Poe LLP announced today that for the third straight year, partners Randolph Gaw and Mark Poe were both selected as Northern California Super Lawyers by Super Lawyers.  Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. This selection process includes independent research, peer…

By Khorri Atkinson (May 16, 2022, 8:42 PM EDT) A California federal court has preliminarily approved a $7 million settlement Google LLC reached with advertisers to resolve their proposed class action accusing the tech behemoth of failing to refund advertising publishers and their clients after shutting down their accounts over invalid advertising traffic… Read more