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Court Exonerates Board Member in Multi-Million Dollar Claim

January 16, 2019

Kulik Gottesman Siegel & Ware LLP (“KGSW”) is pleased to announce that Thomas M. Ware II and Justin Nash successfully defended Erna Parth, a former homeowners’ association volunteer director and President, against a multi-million dollar damage breach of fiduciary duty claim brought against her by her own homeowners association. After a 25 day bench trial,…

Landmark “Idea Theft” Court Decision Secured by KGSW

November 17, 2017

Ninth Circuit Denies Rehearing of Decision Holding that an “Idea Theft” Claim is Not Subject to an Anti-SLAPP Motion For over 50 years, California has protected a writer’s ideas and concepts embodied in scripts under the so called “Desny-claim.” On November 17, 2017, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit took a…

Homeowner Associations Have Very Broad Power to Exercise Architectural Control

November 17, 2017

One of the most important duties of any homeowner association is the exercise of architectural control. The concept is sometimes hard for new owners to understand because they tend to think, “This is my property and I can do whatever I want with it.” That is absolutely not the case in California – in fact,…