Global Compliance, Inc. v. Amercian Labor Law Co
Filed 5/15/06 Global Compliance, Inc. v. Amercian Labor Law Co. CA2/1
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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT
DIVISION ONE
GLOBAL COMPLIANCE, INC., Plaintiff and Respondent, v. AMERICAN LABOR LAW COMPANY et al., Defendants and Appellants. ___________________________________ GLOBAL COMPLIANCE, INC., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. MANGO GRAPHICS CORPORATION et al., Defendants and Respondents. ___________________________________ GLOBAL COMPLIANCE, INC., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. AMERICAN LABOR LAW COMPANY, Defendant and Respondent. ___________________________________ GLOBAL COMPLIANCE, INC., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. MANGO GRAPHICS CORPORATION, Defendant and Respondent. | B171017 (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. GC029763) B172497 B173706 B174694 |
APPEAL (B171017) from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Edward Y. Kakita, Temporary Judge. (Pursuant to Cal. Const., art. VI, § 21.) Affirmed as to Defendant and Appellant American Labor Law Company; appeal of Defendant and Appellant Mango Graphics Corporation deemed to be a petition for a writ of mandate and denied.
APPEALS (B172497, B173706, B174697) from judgments and orders of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, C. Edward Simpson, Judge. Reversed.
Law Offices of Ernest J. Francheschi, Jr., Ernest J. Francheschi, Jr.; Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, Warren J. Krauss, Kirk C. Jenkins and James Yuanxin Li for Plaintiff and Respondent and Plaintiff and Appellant.
Gary Hollingsworth for Defendant and Appellant and Defendant and Respondent American Labor Law Company.
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, Roy G. Weatherup, Daniel DeCarlo and Deborah Sirias for Defendant and Appellant Mango Graphics Corporation and Defendants and Respondents Mango Graphics Corporation, Roberta Bremner, Danielle Blattner, Robert Blattner and Tina Tsai.
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I. Matters Embraced by Consolidation of Four Appeals
On this consolidated appeal, Global Compliance, Inc., doing business as Compliance Poster Company (hereafter CPC) challenges two summary judgments and the respective awards of attorney fees. American Labor Law Company (hereafter ALLC) and Mango Graphics Corporation (hereafter Mango) challenge the respective awards of monetary discovery sanctions against them. In B173706, CPC appeals from the summary judgment and the $62,721 attorney fee award order in favor of ALLC. In B172497, CPC appeals from the summary judgment in favor of Mango and four individuals, Tina Tsai, Barbara (known as Danielle) Blattner, Robert Blattner, and Roberta Bremner (collectively, the Mango defendants). In B174694, CPC appeals from the order awarding Mango $242,550 as attorney fees. In B171017, ALLC and Mango appeal from the discovery sanction order directing Mango and its attorneys, jointly and severally, and ALLC to pay attorney fees in the respective amounts of $6,300 and $3,000.[1]
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