The full Ninth Circuit on Tuesday let stand its decision that thousands of armed guards at U.S. military bases in Iraq can collectively pursue claims that the private security contractor they worked for forced them to work far in excess of the hourly ...read more
Medical technology company SeaSpine Holdings Corp. is run by an “old boys’ club” that demeans female workers and pays them tens of thousands of dollars less than men, a woman who worked in human resources at the California firm charged ...read more
A whistleblower urged the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to revive allegations that Merck and two other drugmakers violated the False Claims Act by offering doctors kickbacks to prescribe their blood-thinning drugs, arguing his suit alleged new, nonpublic details ...read more
A New York federal judge late Tuesday halted Dallas Cowboys star running back Ezekiel Elliott’s six-game domestic violence suspension, handing the players union a temporary win that reopens the door for Elliott to stay on the field this season. ...read more
Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. on Monday asked the Ninth Circuit to overturn an $8 million whistleblower verdict against the company, saying a properly informed and instructed jury would never have found it fired its general counsel for reporting alleged Foreign ...read more
Chadbourne & Parke LLP must turn over an array of evidence to female attorneys suing it for gender discrimination that detail its compensation-setting process for partners and their level of influence on the firm's management, a New York federal ...read more
A New York federal judge on Monday dismissed a suit alleging the New York City Department of Education discriminated against a disabled teacher by firing her, deferring to the results of an internal hearing on most of her claims. ...read more
A lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s plan to ban transgender people from serving in the military is “premature several times over,” the U.S. Department of Justice told a Washington federal court on Monday, saying the policy ...read more
The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Tuesday he has given instructions to ramp up immigration enforcement at workplaces by four to five times current levels, reversing a slowdown that took place toward the end of President ...read more
A California federal judge has preliminarily approved a $2.75 million settlement between AT&T and a class of corporate training managers alleging the telecom giant misclassified them as independent contractors and failed to pay them overtime in violation ...read more
Allstate sued a former agent in Massachusetts federal court Monday, saying that he has breached a one-year noncompete clause and is using Allstate trade secrets and phone numbers to compete against the insurer. ...read more
The leaders of a key Senate panel have struck a deal intent on restoring cost-sharing reduction payments and offering states more flexibility under the Affordable Care Act’s insurance rules as part of a bid to prop up the individual markets over ...read more
A Massachusetts restaurant knowingly failed to pay three workers minimum wage and neglected to pay 14 workers proper overtime compensation, U.S. Department of Labor Secretary R. Alexander Acosta claimed in a suit filed Monday in Massachusetts federal ...read more
United Airlines Inc. has asked the Ninth Circuit not to revive a class action brought by flight attendants claiming the airline did not provide accurate wage statements, insisting that the suit's California Labor Code claim cannot fly because most ...read more
Members of Pennsylvania’s highest court hearing a dispute between Meyer Darragh Buckler Bebenek & Eck PLLC and Malone Middleman PC suggested Tuesday that principles of equity warranted allowing an unjust enrichment claim over fees from a case ...read more
CenterPoint Energy Inc.'s bid to escape a suit alleging it fired a black woman because of her race and sex was denied Monday by a Mississippi federal judge, who said it’s unclear whether the technician filed a false report, which was the company's ...read more
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30(b)(6) allows an employee to depose an employer that is a corporation, governmental agency or other organization. Marjorie McMahon Obod of Dilworth Paxson LLP examines the use of depositions under this rule when an employee ...read more
The new book "The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons" is a lively tour of colorful incidents and personalities that have populated the U.S. Supreme Court for the past 23 decades. Do authors Ronald Collins and David Skover prove their thesis that ...read more
The U.S. Supreme Court granted a request on Tuesday by Leidos Inc. and a group of investors in the company to cancel next month's hotly anticipated oral arguments so the parties can finalize a settlement and submit it to a lower court for approval ...read more
I argued my first case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2013. It was my birthday. And I must say, the experience set the bar pretty high for future birthdays, says Catherine Carroll of WilmerHale. ...read more
Over the last few months, there have been a significant number of court decisions ruling against plaintiffs in single-stock fund cases under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. However, these plan fiduciary “victories” are somewhat Pyrrhic and ...read more
The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday upheld the National Labor Relations Board’s recently updated standard for deferring to arbitration decisions, holding that the labor board was right to defer to an arbitration award that found a utility worker was lawfully ...read more
Many employers are seeing an increase in requests for religious accommodations. Several recent court decisions and statistics from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission provide insight into the rise in claims related to these requests, and ...read more
BuzzFeed hit the U.S. Department of Justice with a Freedom of Information Act complaint in New York federal court Monday, urging the government agency to reveal the names of the former U.S. attorney and a subordinate who were involved in an affair. ...read more
A California federal magistrate judge overseeing claims that UnitedHealth Group improperly denied coverage for mental health and substance abuse treatment told class members at the start of their bench trial Monday that he’s “just some dumb ...read more