Hon. Glenda Sanders (Ret.)

• Writs of mandate including challenges to decisions of the coastal commission, cities, counties and state agencies
• Petition for writ of mandate brought by 86 Southern California municipalities against a state agency for the issuance of a permit prescribing the maximum permissible level of pollutants in municipal storm sewer systems
• Writs of mandate concerning election disputes
• Wrongful termination of public officials
• Environmental challenges relating to the proposed development of numerous single- and multihome construction projects potentially impacting Southern California’s coastal zone

• Breach of contract dispute between a cloud service provider and customer concerning the adequacy of cloud services 
• Breach of contract dispute arising from the purchase and sale of a luxury yacht, involving allegations of nonpayment and misrepresentation 
• Interference with prospective economic advantage dispute between a search engine recognition company and credit card company concerning alleged denial of access to credit card facilities
• Fraud, unfair competition and breach of contract claims brought by a milk marketing and processing cooperative against a purchaser concerning millions of dollars in allegedly withheld payments
• Coordinated actions against major real estate developers brought by a receiver alleging fraudulent voidable transfers of substantial tracts of property for the purpose of avoiding payment of a multimillion-dollar judgment
• Malicious prosecution arising out of underlying partnership disputes involving multiple partnerships, partners and allegedly improper transactions
• Breach of contract, fraud and misrepresentation claims in the context of promissory notes, purchase and sale of consumer goods, real estate and intellectual property, leases between major landlord/property developer and tenants
• Action for damages and injunctive relief brought by minority shareholders against directors of well-known artificial sweetener manufacturer alleging breaches of fiduciary duty arising out of loans and transfers of property to several corporations aligned with defendants

• Data breach and privacy claims, including consumer class action claims, of thousands of records of confidential financial information by major search engine/browser
• Numerous consumer class actions brought on behalf of:
  • Holders of gift certificates and restaurant vouchers claiming a failure to honor them
  • Purchasers of TV monitors (resolution inferior to that advertised), purchasers of poultry alleged to be the product of chickens raised “naturally” and purchasers of automobiles (defective sunroofs)
  • Boat slip tenants claiming a wrongful increase in monthly rent
  • Hospital patients challenging the sufficiency of its disclosures in the hospital’s online “chargemaster” and claiming that the hospital failed to sufficiently disclose fee for emergency room visit
  • College students seeking tuition refund for failure to provide classes when teaching assistants went on strike
• Action brought by more than 600 homebuyers joined in a single complaint for home loan mortgage fraud involving major banks and other lenders

• Construction defect matters arising under California's Right to Repair Act
• Multiparty construction/design defect disputes involving hotels, a church, commercial buildings and large-scale multihome development projects throughout Southern California involving interpretation of the Right of Repair Act (RORA), availability of the class action procedure in the context of construction disputes, and admissibility of expert evidence including statistical sampling
• Insurance, electronic discovery and case management issues arising out of construction litigation both pre and post SB800 (RORA)

• Eminent domain cases involving goodwill and other damage claims by multiple businesses, including an international automotive manufacturer impacted by large transportation authority‘s project to widen roads and freeways
• Eminent domain actions brought by numerous homeowners displaced by the taking of their homes to accommodate road widening in mixed residential/retail neighborhood
• Inverse condemnation actions

• Employment disputes involving claims of retaliation and discrimination based on race, sex, gender and pregnancy, as well as claims concerning breastfeeding and parental leave 
• Restrictive covenant dispute involving a former director who allegedly attempted to establish a competing business using the former employer's proprietary information and trade secrets
• Evaluated several hundred wage and hour class action and PAGA motions for approval of settlements
• Approved hundreds of wage and hour class action and PAGA settlements
• Presided over a lengthy bench trial of one of the first PAGA claims to go to trial involving a large chain of restaurants; ruled on issues of first impression concerning the method of calculating overtime (rate-in-effect vs. weighted average), statistical sampling, manageability, class and sub-class certification and decertification, exhaustion of prefiling administrative prerequisites and sufficiency of LWDA notices; affirmed on appeal
• Presided over numerous motions for class certification and motions to intervene in class and PAGA actions seeking to challenge the fairness of settlements proposed by a “competing” class representative or aggrieved employee  
• As presiding judge of the Orange County Superior Court, oversaw the court’s handling of labor issues involving the court’s 1,500 employees and 144 judicial officers, including those concerning the Family and Medical Leave Act and collective bargaining
• Tried, managed and facilitated the resolution of numerous wrongful termination actions, including those alleging sex and race discrimination and whistleblower retaliation

• Dispute between a well-known musician and agent concerning royalties arising from performances at an entertainment festival featuring prominent artists 
• Dispute arising from an Artists Collaboration Agreement between a well-known entertainer/singer and agent involving recording income, record-label obligations, termination of the agreement and reversion of intellectual property rights

• Action brought by children/beneficiaries of a multimillion-dollar trust for elder abuse damages and restitution of trust property allegedly converted by deceased father’s companion
• Actions by family members alleging undue influence by deceased’s companion and step relatives

• Dispute between a Joint Powers Authority and one of its members concerning the member's alleged failure to pay for insurance coverage procured by the JPA pursuant to the parties' agreement

• Hospital-physician disputes
• Action brought by hospital against major medical insurance provider for alleged violations of the Knox-Keene Act regarding reasonable rates of reimbursement for patients receiving emergency room care

• Complex insurance coverage actions arising from underlying environmental contamination lawsuits, including an action involving a consent agreement to remediate
• Numerous disputes concerning insurance contract interpretation, right to independent counsel, excess insurance and bad faith denial of coverage
• Subrogation cases, including coordinated actions relating to plumbing products, and in the context of mass tort actions for fire damage
• Insurance issues including bad faith claims arising in the context of environmental, property and personal injury claims

• Misappropriation of trade secrets dispute between a bioscience company and former director concerning the alleged use of proprietary information to establish a competing business 
• Entertainment dispute concerning contractual termination and the resulting reversion of intellectual property rights to the recording artist
• Misappropriation of trade secrets, including customer lists, manufacturing processes, trade dress infringement and noncompete clauses in the medical, software and pharmaceutical industries

• Coordinated dental malpractice actions brought by 150 plaintiffs claiming damages for a range of injuries, including catastrophic injuries, arising out of performance of unnecessary procedures, treatment without informed consent and failure to properly sterilize dental equipment resulting in bacterial infection

• Wrongful death resulting from a rear-end collision between a delivery truck and a driver caused by the negligent design of the truck’s axle
• Claim for damages against a major automotive manufacturer arising out of catastrophic injury to a law enforcement officer who allegedly lost control of his vehicle when excessive carbon monoxide entered the vehicle’s cabin
• Injuries to patients attributed to medical and dental procedures, including injuries arising out of transmission of infections by a medical provider to a patient
• High-profile case involving allegations of conspiracy, invasion of privacy and other tort claims brought by a city council member against a police officers’ association and a law firm

Sexual Abuse

• Presided over both civil and criminal molestation actions against church mentors and family members

• Numerous disputes involving alleged breaches of attorney-client fee agreements and legal malpractice claims 
• Attorney-client contingency fee dispute concerning settlement proceeds received in cryptocurrency and the alleged failure to convert and remit a portion of the proceeds in satisfaction of attorneys' fees
• Managed, facilitated the resolution of and adjudicated several legal malpractice claims
• Adjudicated disputes regarding fee sharing between lawyers as well as attorney-client fee disputes
• Regularly assessed the reasonableness of fees charged by attorneys when considering class action and PAGA settlements, and in other matters in which prevailing party fees have been awarded

• Dispute concerning the management of a large shopping mall 
• Dispute among a homeowner, neighboring property owners and an HOA concerning the validity and application of restrictions governing renovations in a high-value coastal residential community

• Cloud services dispute concerning the adequacy of services provided to a commercial customer 
• Technology/financial services dispute concerning alleged improper denial of users' access to credit card facilities