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Uber drivers win nationwide class action over ‘safe rides’ fee

/ / Press Release

A federal judge in California has ruled that Uber Technologies Inc violated its agreements with drivers by subtracting a one-dollar “safe rides fee” from their pay on some trips.

U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland on Thursday granted the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment and said that under the agreements, Uber was required to charge the fee to passengers, and not drivers.

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Tower Hill Select Insurance Company v. Huber, 215 So. 3d 148 (Fla. 3d DCA 2017)

/ / Decisions, Personal Injury

The firm succeeded on appeal in defending a judgment for the insured against several defenses to liability. Briefing issues included the authority for a plaintiff to withdraw part of his insured claim before trial without allowing the insurer to impeach the insured regarding that partial withdrawal and the legal adequacy of jury instructions and a verdict form.

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Pataro v. Pataro, 224 So. 3d 824 (Fla. 3d DCA 2017)

/ / Decisions, Family Law

The firm successfully reversed the entry of an order setting aside the former spouses’ marital settlement agreement as incorporated into a final judgment of dissolution. Agreeing with the firm’s argument, the court recognized there was no case law specifically supporting the former wife’s position that a final judgment and marital settlement agreement can be set aside purely as a sanction.

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Toomey v. Northern Trust Co., 182 So. 3d 891 (Fla. 3d DCA 2016).

/ / Commercial Litigation, Decisions

The firm represented beneficiaries to a high-profile, multimillion dollar estate who were seeking to overturn a protective order preventing them from deposing witnesses in an effort to preserve their testimony. Despite the discretionary legal standard that generally rejects appeals from orders denying discovery, the firm prevailed in demonstrating that its clients were irreparably harmed by the protective order.

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R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Smith

/ / Awards, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury

The firm upheld a $30 million dollar verdict against a tobacco company’s challenge to both the compensatory damages ($10 million in noneconomic damages) and punitive damages ($20 million) awards. The firm persuaded two of the three judges on the panel to specially concur in upholding the judgment despite their stated deep concerns regarding whether there was evidence to support the large jury verdict.

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