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  • Case name:
    Chambers v. WCAB
    Date:
    11/14/1968
    Note:
    It is the employer's burden of proof to show the employee's knowledge.
    Citation:
    69 Cal.2d 556
    WCC citation:
    WCC 31001968 CA
  • Case name:
    Chan v. City & County of San Francisco
    Date:
    04/19/2011
    Note:
    A former swimming instructor did not show that the City and County of San Francisco's reasons for terminating him were a pretext for sex-based discrimination, an appellate court ruled.
    Citation:
    A124330
    WCC citation:
    WCC 37532011 CA
  • Case name:
    Chang v. WCAB
    Date:
    07/24/2007
    Note:
    The 'liberality rule,' which is found in section 3202 and obligates the court to liberally construe the workers' compensation law in favor of the injured worker, 'cannot supplant the intent of the Legislature as expressed in a particular statute.' If the Legislature's intent appears from the language and context of the relevant statutory provisions, then [the court] must effectuate that intent, 'even though the particular statutory language 'is contrary to the basic policy of the [workers' compensation law].'
    Citation:
    153 Cal. App. 4th 750; 63 Cal. Rptr. 3d 219, 72 CC
    WCC citation:
    WCC 32392007 CA
  • Case name:
    Chavez v City of Los Angeles
    Date:
    01/14/2010
    Note:
    Code of Civil Procedure section 1033(a) gives a trial court discretion to deny attorney fees to a plaintiff who prevails on a FEHA claim but recovers an amount that could have been recovered in a limited civil case.
    Citation:
    S162313
    WCC citation:
    WCC 35902010 CA
  • Case name:
    Chavez v. City of LA
    Date:
    07/21/2008
    Note:
    [Unpublished] Chavez's discrimination claim fails in light of his concession that his disability, either actual or perceived, played no role in the city's employment actions.
    Citation:
    B196255
    WCC citation:
    WCC 34012008 CA
  • Case name:
    Chavez v. City of Los Angeles (DCA opinion)
    Date:
    02/22/2008
    Note:
    The trial court erred by basing its denial of plaintiff's request for attorney fees upon Civil Code of Procedure Section 1033.
    Citation:
    BC324514
    WCC citation:
    WCC 35372008 CA
  • Case name:
    Chavira v. WCAB
    Date:
    10/21/1991
    Note:
    Asbestos claim not barred by SOL when he did not yet have disability.
    Citation:
    235 Cal.App.3d 463, 56 CCC 631
    WCC citation:
    WCC 25351991 CA
  • Case name:
    Chevron, Inc. v. WCAB
    Date:
    01/25/1999
    Note:
    No limitation on type of income for partial dependent's death benefits; for such benefits use date of injury not of death.
    Citation:
    19 Cal.4th 1182, 64 CCC 1
    WCC citation:
    WCC 25761999 CA
  • Case name:
    Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board
    Date:
    10/08/2010
    Note:
    The 1st District Court of Appeal ruled that a Workers' Compensation Appeals Board discovery order against a children's hospital should be annulled, because the order sought information that could be used to identify its patients.
    Citation:
    A127580
    WCC citation:
    WCC 36782010 CA
  • Case name:
    Chin v. Namvar
    Date:
    09/11/2008
    Note:
    Under section 2750.5 the presumption of employee status can be rebutted only as to persons who hold a valid contractor's license; the presumption cannot be rebutted as to persons who do not hold a valid contractor's license.
    Citation:
    B198986
    WCC citation:
    WCC 34192008 CA

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