Christine Cusick Ross

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Associate

  Firm Name

  Duane Morris LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters: Appellate Matters: Prepared California state court appeal
  U.S. Supreme Court petition regarding denial of a motion to compel arbitration.
  Prepared state court appeals regarding the prevailing party's right to contractual attorneys' fees under Civil Code section 1717.
  Renewable Resources Coalition, Inc. v. Pebble Mines Corp., 218 Cal.App.4th 384 (2013) - Successful reversal of anit-SLAPP ruling on appeal. Obtained ruling that a non-profit's claims for tortious interference based on mining companies' purchase of nonprofit's confidential documents from a third-party fundraising consultant were not subject to special motion to strike under anti-SLAPP statute.
  General Commercial Litigation: Advised corporate client as to their obligations under various proposed contractual arbitration provisions.
  Defended company
  employees in trade secret action resolved on terms the client found highly favorable.
  Pro Bono: Represent victims of domestic violence to obtain restraining orders in San Mateo County.
  Prepared successful writ of habeas corpus petition on behalf of the Northern California Innocence Project in support of defendant's petition to vacate conviction in sexual molestation case where faulty expert testimony
  ineffective assistance of counsel led to life sentence.
  Insurance Coverage Litigation: Nieves v. Travelers Cas. Ins. Co. of Am., 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 95774 (C.D. Cal., July 20, 2015) - Briefed
  argued successful motion to enforce an order to compel arbitration on behalf of insurer.
  Nieves v. Travelers Cas. Ins. Co. of Am., 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 174941 (C.D. Cal. Sept. 29, 2014) - Briefed
  argued successful motion to compel arbitration,
  defeated motion to rem
  , in insurance bad-faith suit.
  Phila. Indem. Ins. Co. v. Lakeside Heights Homeowners Ass'n, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 80033 (N.D. Cal. June 18, 2015) - Briefed
  argued successful motion for summary judgment on behalf of insurer regarding application of the policy's subsidence exclusion.
  Camp Richardson Resort, Inc. v. Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company (E.D. Cal., Dec. 9, 2015) 150 F.Supp.3d 1186, 2015 WL 8328529 - Successful motion to dismiss insurance coverage suit because insured resort operator's alleged interference with adjoining l
  owners' property interest in roadway did not fall within personal injury coverage.