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Ellis George client, ListReports, today announced “complete victory” in a three-year trade secret and false advertising lawsuit brought by a competitor, Home Buyers Marketing (“HBM”). ListReports is an Orange County-based online real estate marketing service used by hundreds of thousands of real estate professionals nationwide. In 2016, Minnesota-based HBM sued ListReports in federal court for …

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LGBTQ+ plaintiffs file class action against Google/YouTube to stop discriminatory, animus-based, and unlawful content based regulation, restraint, monetization, false advertising, and anti-competitive distribution of LGBTQ+ speech and video content. Please click the link below to view the Complaint: LGBTQ+ v Google-YouTube Complaint FILED (case #5-19-cv-4749) Eight LGBTQ+ Video Content Creators File Class Action Lawsuit vs. …

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  Ellis George today filed a class action against YouTube and its parent Google on behalf of eight LGBTQ+ content creators and other members of the LGBTQ+ YouTube community. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Jose, California, claims YouTube restricts viewership and monetization of LGBTQ+ content by engaging in unlawful animus-based content restrictions …

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Veteran white collar defense and tax attorney Nathan J. Hochman has joined Ellis George as a partner in its Los Angeles office. Hochman served as the Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Tax Division in 2008 and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Criminal Division of the Central District of California …

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Governor Gavin Newsom today released the names of the individuals who will help him choose California judges. Among them is Ellis George partner Eric M. George, who will serve as one of four private practitioners on the Los Angeles Judicial Selection Advisory Committee. The committee, which consists of 17 members, is comprised mostly of California …

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A federal jury today awarded pharmaceutical giant Allergan a tiny fraction of the millions of dollars it requested in a false advertising suit brought against Ellis George client Imprimis Pharmaceuticals. Allergan requested over $7.2 million in lost profits and as much as $54 million in disgorged profits, but the jury awarded Allergan just $48,500 for …

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The Los Angeles Superior Court today granted Ellis George client Jason Frank’s Motion for Summary Judgment and entered a $4.85 million judgement against Michael Avenatti. This is in addition to another judgment in Frank’s favor for $10 million that was recently entered against Eagen Avenatti LLP, the law firm of which Michael Avenatti is the …

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Former United States Attorney for the Central District of California, Thomas P. O’Brien, has joined Ellis George as a partner in its Los Angeles office.  O’Brien – a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and former federal prosecutor – headed the Los Angeles U.S. attorney’s office in the late 2000s before transitioning to private …

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The First District Illinois Appellate Court today unanimously affirmed a jury verdict that resulted in a judgment in excess of $18 million in favor of Ellis George client Playboy. Today’s decision is the latest in a six-year legal battle that started with a lawsuit filed against Playboy by two former Playboy licensees (Play Beverages and …

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Ellis George and co-counsel Keller Lenkner, on behalf of Kalman Isaacs and a class of Tesla shareholders, filed a putative class action against Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk.  The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, claims that Musk’s recent tweets about taking Tesla private illegally manipulated stock prices.  The class consists of …

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