Business litigants turn to GMSR when the stakes are high, whether it’s to preserve an important victory or to challenge an adverse decision. GMSR has substantive experience in a range of fields including antitrust, bankruptcy, banking/lender liability, contract interpretation and enforcement, torts, trade secrets misappropriation, and unfair competition. That experience, combined with GMSR’s outside-the-box thinking and persuasive writing, ensures appellate briefs that present its clients’ case in the strongest light possible. Savvy clients also regularly bring GMSR in long before the appellate stage to draft dispositive motions, review proposed jury instructions and verdict forms, and advise on strategy with an eye toward appeal.
Greenspan v. LADT, LLC (2010) 191 Cal.App.4th 486
Court reverses trial court’s refusal to add alter ego judgment debtors, holding that alter ego liability applies equally to trustees
Ladd v. Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. (2010) 184 Cal.App.4th 1298
Studio’s undervaluation of film producers’ share of revenues; infringement of film producer’s rights
Court of Appeal affirms $3.2 million judgment for movie studio’s underpayment of profit participation and reverses a nonsuit on fraud and other claims
Alan Ladd Jr. v. Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. (2010) 184 Cal.App.4th 1298 (California Second Appellate District, Division Three) [partially published]. GMSR represented Academy Award-winning producers Alan Ladd Jr. and Jay Kanter, whose films include Chariots of Fire, Blade Runner and Body Heat. They sued Warner
Dillingham-Ray Wilson v. City of Los Angeles (2010) 182 Cal.App.4th 1396
Interpretation of public entity construction contract and application of Amelco principles
Jasmine Networks, Inc. v. Superior Court (2009) 180 Cal.App.4th 980
Former trade secrets owner had standing to assert trade secret misappropriation claim
Bioquest Venture Leasing Company-A, N.V. v. VivoRx Autoimmune, Inc. (Nov. 5, 2009, B201454) 2009 WL 3719534 [nonpublished opinion]
Plaintiff sued GMSR’s client VivoRx for breach of a biotechnology license agreement that was silent on choice of law. VivoRx argued that California law applied, and that it barred plaintiff’s claims as untimely, while plaintiff insisted that Massachusetts law governed the lawsuit, and that its
In re Episcopal Church Cases (2009) 45 Cal.4th 467
Property rights of local church leaving larger denomination
Edwards v. Arthur Andersen LLP (2008) 44 Cal.4th 937
Emphasizing the strong public policy underlying Business and Professions Code section 16600, the Supreme Court rejected the so-called “narrow restraint” exception to California’s statutory bar on employee covenants not to compete with former employers. Section 16600 voids “every contract by which anyone is restrained from
In re Six Flags Claims Trust (July 2, 2008, B188321) 2008 WL 2600718 [nonpublished opinion]
Validity of beneficiary vote approving payment of trustee fees
Emanuele v. Bisno (Mar. 13, 2008, A117913) 2008 WL 668020 [nonpublished opinion]
Nature of partnership; fiduciary duties arising from commercial real estate; compound interest in fraud case
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