Successes

Rachel Dolezal dismisses “selfie” copyright case against Paper Mag after legal maneuvering goes awry.

Tauler Smith LLP has successfully defeated three motions for summary adjudication in complex multi-party litigation regarding the manufacture of protein bars. The triad of motions were brought by cross-defendants Defense Nutrition, LLC, Sapphire Bakery Co., and Bruce Olsen, Sapphire’s former CEO, against law firm client and cross-complainant Eagle Mist Corporation.

Jury ruled that NeoCell Corp. officers conspired to dissolve the majority partner’s shares in the Irvine supplement company’s manufacturing arm.

A jury’s $5.4 million verdict against an Irvine, Calif. skincare company for trying to cheat a business partner was unanimously upheld by a three-justice panel of the California Court of Appeal in a decision released on April 5. Inventor Ahmad Alkayali sued NeoCell Corp. and his former business partners after they dissolved his 72% equity share in a collagen supplement factory without paying him or even informing him of the move.

Firm Attorneys Robert Tauler and Dillon Millar successfully defended a real estate holding corporation and several individual defendants after a seven day jury trial in Los Angeles Superior Court, obtaining dismissal of 23 claims, including fraud and breach of fiduciary duty, in litigation that spanned close to three years.

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ruled that a lawsuit will proceed against Co-founder and Director of Nomad Model Management LA and former employees of Industry Model Group for misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract and unfair competition, and that countersuits against Industry will be dismissed, in a series of rulings handed down against Nomad Model Management.

Robert DiMaggio permanently enjoined from selling SARMs

In an eight-page Order on Summary Judgment, Judge Manuel Real of the United States District Court for the Central District of California has ruled in favor of firm client Nutrition Distribution, LLC, ordering that Defendants IronMagLabs and Robert DiMaggio be permanently enjoined from selling SARMs.

A superior court judge has allowed a lawsuit against a group of Santa Monica convenience stores allegedly selling supplements laced with prescription and unapproved drugs to proceed by denying a Chevron gas station’s defense motion to dismiss the case.

Natural products insider writes about Tauler Smith's recent court victory against Enhanced Athlete and their managing agent Charles Anthony Hughes, a California lawyer who refers to himself as "Dr. Tony Huge" to market patented drugs called SARMs to bodybuilders.

Read the full article on Natural Products Insider.

A federal appeals court ruled a judge improperly dismissed a lawsuit against seller of Ostarine sports supplements

A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel handed client Nutrition Distribution LLC a major victory in its ongoing battle to prevent IronMag Labs LLC from its false advertising of its sports supplements containing Ostarine, a substance developed by pharma giant GTx to treat degenerative muscle diseases and cancers, announced Robert Tauler of Tauler Smith LLP in Los Angeles. The lawsuit alleges that IronMag Labs sells Ostarine without a prescription and markets Ostarine as a bodybuilding supplement, even though Ostarine is still in clinical trials.