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Labor/Employment,
Civil Litigation

May 6, 2024

Former Donda Academy teachers to amend complaint against Kanye West

Plaintiffs must establish that West was their employer, not just the school's founder, to keep him as a defendant in the case.

The New York Times

A Los Angeles County judge on Friday sustained Kanye West's demurrer to two causes of action claimed against him by former teachers alleging a litany of health, safety and education violations at his school in Simi Valley.

"[T]o be held liable under section 558.1, an 'owner' . . . must either have been personally involved in the purported violation of one or more of the enumerated provisions; or, absent such personal involvement, had sufficient participation in th...

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