Successful Defense of Former County CAO in Case Alleging Harassment and Wrongful Termination

Martin Moroski represented former Chief Administrative Officer of San Luis Obispo County in case filed by one of his chief deputies involving claims of hostile environment sex harassment, retaliation and wrongful termination of employment.

Successful Trial Defense of Winery in High Profile Case Alleging Sex Harassment

Martin Moroski represented employer winery in three-week jury trial of hostile environment sex harassment and constructive wrongful termination case in San Luis Obispo County Superior Court in 2009. After a two and one-half week trial, the jury returned a defense verdict in favor of winery client.

Latrell Sprewell Wrongful Termination and Race Discrimination Case

The Golden State Warriors terminated the player contract of star guard Latrell Sprewell after he physically assaulted the team's head coach during a team practice. The National Basketball Association subsequently suspended Sprewell. Through his union, Sprewell instituted an arbitration against the Warriors and the NBA under the applicable collective bargaining agreement. After the arbitration, Sprewell filed a civil lawsuit alleging claims for race discrimination, breach of the collective bargaining agreement and various state law claims against both the NBA and the Warriors. Steven Adamski served as co-counsel to the Warriors at the collective bargaining agreement arbitration. In the federal court action, Mr. Adamski and co-counsel successfully obtained a dismissal with prejudice of Sprewell's lawsuit and an award of sanctions against Sprewell's attorneys. Mr. Adamski and Martin Moroski successfully handled Mr. Sprewell's appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal. The Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of Sprewell's race discrimination and collective bargaining agreement claims.

Successful Trial Defense of Employer in Wrongful Termination Suit

Martin Moroski served as trial and appellate counsel for PG&E and one of its female supervisors in a case filed by an employee of one of the company's independent contractors at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. The plaintiff alleged claims against PG&E for wrongful termination of an implied-in-fact employment contract and against PG&E's female employee for intentional interference with that contract. At the conclusion of a two-week jury trial, judgments were entered in favor of both PG&E and its female employee. The judgment in favor of PG&E was appealed. The Second District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court's judgment.

Multiple Binding Arbitrations in Employment Contract Cases

The firm's principals have arbitrated multiple employment and employment-related matters in mandatory contractual arbitration proceedings. Specifically, Steven Adamski represented the Golden State Warriors at the arbitrations of the employment contract claims of former head coaches Don Nelson, Rick Adelman and Mike Montgomery.

California Labor Commissioner Hearings

One of the firm's principals has represented clients in hearings before the California Labor Commissioner.