Employment Law

menu_book California Demurrer — Business Torts — CA Demurrer — At-Will Employment Defeats Interference-with-Contract; IIPEA and Independently Wrongful Act Required (*Reeves v. Hanlon*)

menu_book California Demurrer — Business Torts — Whether the IIPEA count pleads an independently wrongful act

menu_book California Demurrer — Employment Claims (FEHA) — DEM-EMPL-01 — Elements missing from FEHA prima facie case

menu_book California Demurrer — Employment Claims (FEHA) — DEM-EMPL-02 — Adverse employment action pled as adjectives, not facts (Yanowitz)

menu_book California Demurrer — Employment Claims (FEHA) — DEM-EMPL-03 — Missing or mispled CRD right-to-sue exhaustion

menu_book California Demurrer — Employment Claims (FEHA) — DEM-EMPL-04 — Tameny claims without anchored public policy

menu_book California Demurrer — Employment Claims (FEHA) — DEM-EMPL-05 — § 1102.5 pled under old McDonnell Douglas framework (Lawson)

menu_book California Demurrer — Employment Claims (FEHA) — DEM-EMPL-06 — § 1102.5 "reasonable belief" without identified legal basis

menu_book California Demurrer — Employment Claims (FEHA) — DEM-EMPL-07 — IIED against employer — the Janken bar

menu_book California Demurrer — Employment Claims (FEHA) — DEM-EMPL-08 — Tort claims barred by workers' comp exclusivity

menu_book California Demurrer — Employment Claims (FEHA) — DEM-EMPL-09 — Pregnancy as standalone claim rather than sex discrimination

menu_book California Demurrer — Employment Claims (FEHA) — DEM-EMPL-10 — Disparate-impact claims without identified policy (Mahler)

menu_book California Demurrer — Other Claims — Whether a breach-of-duty-of-loyalty count survives demurrer alongside the interference count

menu_book California Demurrer — PAGA — Whether the LWDA notice satisfies the Lab. Code § 2699.3 specificity requirements

menu_book California Demurrer — PAGA — Whether the complaint was filed within the Lab. Code § 2699.3(a)(2)(A) 65-day waiting period

menu_book California Demurrer — PAGA — Whether the named plaintiff has aggrieved-employee standing under Lab. Code § 2699(c)

menu_book California Demurrer — PAGA — Whether the post-Viking River / Adolph split bifurcates the PAGA count for arbitration purposes

menu_book California Demurrer — PAGA — Whether the post-Estrada rule forecloses a manageability-based demurrer to a PAGA count

menu_book California Demurrer — PAGA — Whether the PAGA count seeks remedies the statute does not authorize

menu_book California Demurrer — PAGA — Whether the predicate Labor Code violation is adequately pleaded to support PAGA penalties

menu_book California Demurrer — PAGA — Whether the LWDA notice covered the theories the complaint pleads -- the Williams scope rule

menu_book California Demurrer — PAGA — Whether the 2024 PAGA reform applies -- pre-/post-reform regime split

menu_book California Demurrer — PAGA — Whether the named employer falls within the public-employer carve-out from PAGA