Articles from Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP

On August 18, 2026, Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP (“CPM”) filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division, against Logitech Inc. (“Logitech”), on behalf of a proposed nationwide class of consumers who purchased Logitech products at prices the company quietly inflated to cover the costs of tariffs, now reimbursed by the federal government.

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy announces on August 11, 2026, a San Mateo County jury awarded $33 million to two 11-year-old girls whose parents, Greg Ammen and Grace Spiridon, were killed while their vehicle was turning left on El Camino Real in Redwood City on November 4, 2022. Defendant Cesar Morales, then 17 years old, was engaged in a street race that night and struck the Ammen vehicle. The parents of Cesar Morales, Arnold Morales and Susana Salto Alvarez, were also found liable for ignoring warnings about their son’s driving history. The case has gained widespread attention and focused on how much responsibility parents have for their teenage children.

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP announces the San Mateo County Superior Court in California denied a motion to strike a whistleblower complaint filed against Safelite Group Inc., Safelite AutoGlass and Safelite Solutions LLC, alleging widespread violations of California’s Insurance Fraud Prevention Act (CFPA).

Three major California Law Firms filed a class action lawsuit in the Northern District of California on behalf of investors across the United States who invested in the various investment properties owned by the real estate corporation LeFever Mattson, Inc., founded by partners Kenneth Mattson and Timothy LeFever.

In a 38-page published opinion, the Court of Appeal for California’s Sixth Appellate District ruled on Friday that the lawsuit challenging YouTube and Google’s immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act brought by Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple and renowned tech entrepreneur, and 17 victims of a “Bitcoin Giveaway” fraudulent scam, will be allowed to proceed.

Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy (“CPM”) is representing elderly citizens Diane Artemis Yaffe, age 76, of San Mateo County, and Alice Lin, age 80, of Los Angeles County, who both filed lawsuits seeking to recover damages from JPMorgan Chase Bank for facilitating the fraudulent theft of their life savings of over $2,000,000 (two million dollars) combined from their accounts.

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP announces a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge recently handed down a Decision on a long running animal abuse trial. The case stems from online puppy trafficking by a California family that sold sick Goldendoodle puppies to unsuspecting families. The breed, health and gender of the puppies were misrepresented. Families paid more than $1,000 cash per puppy. When the dogs became ill and the families contacted the sellers, they were harassed. In some cases, the dogs had been dyed, so that their reddish brown color washed out in the bath, revealing a white puppy.

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP announces a joint lawsuit brought by the parents of two Saugus High School students killed in a November 4, 2019, on-campus shooting will proceed to trial, according to the ruling issued by the Los Angeles Superior Court. Trial will likely begin in January 2024. The parents of Gracie Muehlberger and Dominic Blackwell allege that the Hart Union High School District had no program in place to identify and intervene with troubled students and, as a result, missed numerous red flags associated with the suicidal student who committed the murders. They also allege the District did not adequately supervise or secure the school campus.

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP filed a lawsuit on behalf of San Mateo County against Eaton & Associates for billing taxpayers for work they never completed.

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP filed a lawsuit on behalf of consumers, against Amazon.com, Inc. and Amazon.com Services, LLC for alleged breaches of antitrust and other laws.

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP, Co-Lead Counsel representing Apple customers, announced that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed an appeal challenging the historic agreement with Apple Inc. to settle a nationwide class action based on allegations that Apple issued software updates that slowed down the performance of iPhones. Under the now-final settlement, Apple will pay $310 million in cash compensation.

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy announces a federal court has dismissed the Second Amendment claims filed by a gun rights group challenging the constitutionality of a 2022 San José ordinance that requires gun owners to carry liability insurance for accidental shootings involving their firearms. Described by some as a first-of-its-kind law, the San José law ordinance has been widely praised by gun regulation advocates and others as a common-sense measure to help stem the increasing toll of gun-related deaths and injuries. The plaintiffs, led by the National Association for Gun Rights, asked the court to hold the ordinance was unconstitutional.

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP announced today that Judge Larry A. Burns of the District Court in San Diego issued an order yesterday allowing claims in the multi-district litigation against Bank of America to go forward. The class action seeks to hold BofA accountable for violating state and federal laws and breaching its contract with hundreds of thousands of Californians who receive unemployment and disability benefits through BofA’s prepaid debit cards.

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP filed a lawsuit on behalf of Mark Shuken and Brent Willman against Pac-12 Enterprises, LLC and Pac-12 Network LLC, and Pac-12 Conference (collectively, “Pac-12”) for alleged unlawful termination, defamation, and breach of contract. Shuken was the President of Pac-12 Network, LLC, and Willman was the Chief Financial Officer of the Pac-12 Conference, LLC.

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP filed suit this week on behalf of the San Mateo County Board of Education and the San Mateo County Superintendent of Schools over the youth-targeting business practices of Defendant social media companies, YouTube Inc. (and related companies, Alphabet Inc., XXVI Holdings Inc., Google LLC), Snap Inc., and TikTok Inc. (and related company, ByteDance Inc.).

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer, the first openly transgender Bishop of the country’s largest Lutheran denomination, today in the United States District Court – Northern District of California, alleging he was demeaned, harassed, defamed, and eventually pushed out of his role as Bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod, a division of the Evangelical Church in America covering the geographical area of Northern California and parts of Nevada.

On February 28, 2023, Institutional Shareholder Services SCAS released its annual SCAS “Top 50” report, ranking the nation’s top securities class action law firms based on their recoveries for investors during 2022.

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP and Goethals Legal P.C. filed suit on behalf of the San Mateo County Community College District in newly filed litigation alleging a massive fraud scheme and cover-up by District contractors and their coconspirators, including former Chancellor Ronald Galatolo and former Vice Chancellor Jose Nuñez to illegally secure hundreds of millions of dollars in construction contracts.

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy announces after much litigation, San Francisco’s iconic restaurant, John’s Grill, will have an 11am press conference saying it has reached a settlement with The Hartford and its affiliate Sentinel Insurance Company over their decision to deny insurance coverage for business interruptions during the Covid-19 pandemic. With courts across the country dismissing business interruption cases, this settlement represents an extraordinary exception under California law.

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the family of an elderly resident who was poisoned and died at Atria Park of San Mateo. Ninety-three-year-old lifelong San Mateo resident Trudy Maxwell died on August 29, 2022 from poisoning. Her death was caused by being served industrial strength cleaner by Atria San Mateo. The Complaint alleges that Atria had a similar poisoning a few days before at their Contra Costa facility, yet took no corrective measures.

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP has filed a class action lawsuit against Tesla, Inc. for allegedly misleading the public regarding its Autopilot, Enhanced Autopilot, and Full Self-Driving Capability (“FSD”) technology, which many consumers pay additional thousands of dollars to make their new Tesla self-driving. The lawsuit seeks to represent a class of all those who purchased a Tesla automobile with this technology.

Late last week, after over two years of litigation, Earth Island Institute, represented by Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, received an order from the San Mateo County Superior Court allowing its landmark lawsuit to proceed against 10 major plastic consumer goods companies for the nuisance allegedly created by their plastic packaging, including polluting California waterways with plastic trash and touting products as recyclable when they’re not.

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP and Ahdoot & Wolfson announce the United States District Court in the Northern District of California granted final approval of a groundbreaking settlement agreement on behalf of a nationwide class action of Zoom users and subscribers. The action alleged that Zoom failed to provide end-to-end encryption of Zoom meetings, improperly shared user information, and left many exposed to “Zoombombing” by unauthorized third parties.

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP has filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of California on behalf of Plaintiff Scott A. Olsen and other owners of 2017 to 2018 Chrysler Pacifica Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (“PHEVs”).

A federal jury in San Antonio, Texas, this morning found in favor of three whistleblowers represented by Burlingame-based Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP (“CPM”), in a case brought under the False Claims Act. The jury entered a verdict that will result in a damages award of $8.1 million after mandatory tripling under the False Claims Act. Additionally, the jury determined the defendant submitted over 7,000 false claims to the United States Medicare program. Each of those false claims will be subject to civil monetary penalties of over $11,000.

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Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy is proud to announce that after nearly six years of hard-fought litigation, SoCalGas and its parent company, Sempra Energy has finally agreed to settle the claims of 35,717 Plaintiffs for $1.8 Billion. This is believed to be the largest settlement amount for a natural gas release in history.