On behalf of Hart King, A California Professional Law Corporation | Apr 22, 2019 | Firm News, Legal Blog
The Mobilehome industry remains an unwilling participant and target defendant in multiple Failure to Maintain (“FTM”) lawsuits. As a result, the legal exposure of Mobilehome Park owners in California has dramatically increased over the past 20+ years. In...
| Oct 31, 2018 | Legal Blog
For more than 35 years, California courts have accepted that the wage history of a newly hired person’s prior salary as a “factor other than sex” in determining their current pay rate. A 2018 Court of Appeal decision found that an employer justifying...
| May 7, 2018 | Legal Blog
New California Law for Licensed Contractors. -Stephen J. Guichard, Esq. In October 2017, Governor Brown signed AB 1278 into law. Previously, licensed contractors who failed to pay a final court judgment entered against them could simply avoid the judgment by not...
| Oct 5, 2017 | Legal Blog
Many manufactured home communities have clubhouses for park and social events. Those events may be sponsored by the Park, but are also frequently sponsored by individuals or groups that reside within a given manufactured home community. An ongoing issue in many parks...
| Oct 27, 2016 | Legal Blog
Ground leases are long term-leases that share many of the characteristics of a land purchase. The ground lessee acquires long-term exclusive rights of possession, including the right to build on and use the property as the lessee sees fit and to obtain any...
| Aug 2, 2016 | Legal Blog
In the past month, Hart | King has received rulings in 3 separate rent control applications/hearings. First, we received a ruling arising out of an application in the city of Lancaster. The city of Lancaster has a fairly expedited process for submitting discretionary...
| Jul 28, 2016 | Legal Blog
Why register your trademark? Trademarks are an essential part of everyday life. They provide consumers with a shorthand way of identifying the source of the goods and services they depend upon. Whether it’s the trademark for the car we drive or the clothes we...
| Jun 23, 2016 | Legal Blog
In May, President Obama signed into law new legislation known as the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (or “DTSA”) which is intended to provide enhanced means of protecting the confidential information that many companies rely upon as the basis for their...
| Jun 23, 2016 | Legal Blog
It has been quite some time since real pirates plied the waters of the Caribbean seeking valuable treasure, high-spirited adventure, and wooden casks of rum, but the recent thaw in U.S. relations with the Cuban government has reignited a decades old trademark battle...
| Jun 23, 2016 | Legal Blog
Throughout his many incarnations, Batman, the fictional crime fighter and protector of the peace in Gotham City, has faced a wide range of very odd foes. Names like The Joker, Catwoman, Mr. Freeze and Penguin are familiar to fans of the Batman comic books, television...
