Articles from Ellis George LLP

Ellis George LLP announced that The California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, has reversed a trial court order that reduced a jury verdict against Impact Biomedicines and instead reinstated the original $5,020,000 award. Impact Biomedicines, a division of Bristol-Meyers-Squibb, and Impact Biomedicine’s founder and owner, Dr. John Hood, must pay San Diego physician and Alzheimer’s researcher James Brewer M.D., Ph.D., more than $1 million in compensatory damages and $4 million in punitive damages in a fraudulent concealment case filed in 2019.

Democratic California Gubernatorial candidate Antonio Villaraigosa, the former Los Angeles Mayor and Speaker of the California Assembly, demanded in a court filing (Case No. 2:25-cv-03790) the dismissal of a lawsuit seeking to prevent him from using the phrase “proven problem solver” in his campaign for California governor.

Ellis George LLP announced today it secured a $34.9 million jury award for its plaintiff-client ImprimisRX LLC and its parent company Harrow IP LLC against defendant Ocular Science, Inc. and its subsidiary, OSRX, Inc. in a federal trademark dispute over post-surgical eyedrops.

Richard Montañez, a former senior executive at PepsiCo, Inc., perhaps best known as the man who invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and whose inspirational, rags to riches life story was the subject of last year’s hit film “Flamin’ Hot,” was the victim of fraud, racial discrimination, defamation and violations of California’s unfair competition law, according to a 62-page complaint (Case No. CIVRS2400356) filed against PepsiCo.