Emily T. Kuwahara

Appellate

• Represented The Regents of the University of California in the California Court of Appeal in a case involving taxpayer standing. Obtained affirmance of trial court dismissal on appeal. Case reported at Animal Legal Defense Fund et al. v. California Exposition and State Fairs et al. (2015) 239 Cal. App. 4th 1286.
• Represented The Regents of the University of California in the California Court of Appeal in multiple appeals, following a bench trial ruling and summary judgment ruling in favor of The Regents. All trial victories were affirmed.
• Represent pro bono clients in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in immigration matters and a 1983 action alleging the unreasonable use of deadly force. Also serve as a moot court judge for the Family Violence Appellate Project in cases brought in the California appellate courts.
• Successfully obtained grant of final approval of class action settlements for national client and defended settlement against objectors at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Trial

• Represented inventors in a highly contested patent inventorship bench trial involving a pharmaceutical compound in the Central District of California.
• Represented a tech company seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages in a breach of contract action in California. Case settled.
• Represented The Regents of the University of California and a professor in a dispute with a pharmaceutical company, Medivation, over control of a promising prostate cancer treatment drug invented and patented by The Regents. Prevailed in court trial on behalf of Regents, entitling Regents to $32 million in possible future payments pursuant to patent license. On summary judgment defeated all claims that The Regents failed to provide Medivation all contracted for patent rights. Affirmed on appeal.
• Representing national retailer in consumer class actions in the Southern District of California.
• Representing Japanese corporation and U.S. subsidiary in antitrust class actions in the Northern District of California.
• Represent, on a pro bono basis, a coalition of over 60 organizations, led by Advancing Justice | AAJC (Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC), American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), and the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), and filed an amicus brief filed in the Northern District of California and Southern District of New York in an effort to stop the implementation of the “public charge” rule.