Temple of Justice

Synopsis: May an attorney sue co-counsel for the fee the attorney expected to earn in representing their mutual client? May an attorney sue co-counsel for money paid by the attorney’s malpractice insurance company to settle their malpractice lawsuit?

Synopsis: Were truck drivers who delivered agricultural goods entitled to overtime wages under the Minimum Wage Act?

Facts:

Petitioner Larie E. Bostain was an interstate truck driver employed by respondent Food Express Inc. out of the company’s Vancouver terminal.  Bostain was hired under the agreement he would not be paid overtime if he worked over 40 hours, but rather by the mile once over 200 miles.  After being terminated for violating federal driving limitations, Bostain filed suit against Food Express for unpaid wages, unpaid overtime, and willful failure to pay wages.  Read more…

Synopsis: Whether Brink’s employees should be paid for time they spend driving company trucks between their homes and their first and last job sites.

Synopsis: Were county employees entitled to sue when they did not get paid for overtime for more than a month?

Synopsis: Is corporate insolvency a sufficient defense to avoid personal liability when the responsible party otherwise willfully failed to pay wages owed to its employee(s)?

Synopsis: Whether, in a dispute over attorney fees owed by a former client, the trial court erroneously awarded the former attorney prejudgment interest even though the former client had deposited the amount of claimed fees in the trial court registry, and whether on appeal the Court of Appeals erroneously altered the settlement amount on which the former attorney’s contingency fee was based.