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Does Employer’s Duty To Ensure Safe Workplace Extend to Events at Employee’s Home

By California statute, an employer has a duty to ensure a safe workplace.  In a recent California case, an employee who was injured by a criminal assault while visiting another employee’s home for dinner and for work-related and/or networking activities argued that the employer’s duty extended to the host employee’s home.  The host employee’s disturbed […]

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PERSONAL JURISDICTION – NO SPECIFIC PERSONAL JURISDICTION WHEN CASE DOES NOT RELATE TO DEFENDANT’S CONTACTS WITH FORUM STATE

In a recent California case, plaintiff purchased a battery from a vape shop and it exploded in his pants pocket.  The battery was manufactured by defendant, a South Korean company.  The vape shop did not sell defendant’s batteries and the battery it sold did not come in packaging. Defendant sold millions of batteries to three

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