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14 Oct 2:52 am
... if those statements were made with actual malice. The Noonan case The case is Noonan v. Staples, Inc., D.C. Mass, No. 06-10716. In 2005, ... sincere regret that I must
inform you of the termination of Alan Noonan's employment with Staples. A thorough investigation determined that Alan was not in compliance with our [travel and expenses] ...
effective management of this and all policies. If you have any questions about Staple['s] policies or Code of Ethics, call the Ethics Hotline . . . or ask your human ...
24 Feb 10:39 am
... :pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.ca1.uscourts.gov');">Noonan v. Staples, Inc., No. 07-2159 (2009). I'm just going to voice my ... his expense
accounts and such during the course of his employment there. Staples caught Noonan, fired him, and made an example of him in a mass email ... based libel suit-appears to have
dropped the Constitutional ball: In the rehearing proceedings, Staples has suggested that this exception to the truth defense may never be constitutional. But this argument ...
1 May 6:15 am
... one each in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania - were filed against Staples alleging labor law violations; specifically, the class action complaints allege "
... Labor Standards Act and/or various state wage and hour statutes." In re Staples, Inc., Wage & Hour Employment Practices Litig., ___ F.Supp.2d ... the alternative,
and (2) this district is already presiding over a similar action against Staples which is in its final stages." Id. Accordingly, the Panel ordered all class actions ...
19 Jun 5:41 am
... in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania - were filed against Staples alleging violations of state and federal labor laws; specifically, the class action
complaints ... Act (FLSA) and/or various state wage and hour statutes. In re Staples, Inc., Wage & Hour Employment Practices Litig., ___ F.Supp.2d ... all parties at
least in the alternative, and (2) this district is already presiding over a similar action against Staples which is in its final stages." Id. Download PDF file of In re ...
6 Nov, 2007 4:35 am
... another multi-million-dollar wage and hour settlement. Office supply giant Staples Inc. has agreed to pay $38 million to settle overtime claims brought by ... The
class includes between 1,500 and 2,000 employees who worked for Staples over a period of twelve years. The "managers" claimed that they exercised virtually no ... the cash
register, cleaning, assisting customers, processing deliveries and stocking shelves. Staples admitted no wrongdoing but said that it settled to "avoid further expense and ...
20 Nov, 2007 3:00 pm
A wage & hour class action lawsuit brought against Staples Inc. on behalf of approximately 1,700 current and former assistant store managers in California has been
settled for $38 million. The ... up to $150 million. The company denied the claims and admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement. A spokesperson for the office products firm said that
"Staples believes that its store labor model, which is based on a commitment to fair and respectful treatment of its associates, is fully compliant with ...
15 Nov, 2007 6:34 am
... infringement by maintaining self-service photocopiers in the Great Library for use by its patrons. Maybe Access Copyright is hoping that Staples will subscribe to the
iCopyright services which is supposed to be able to transact a license to use/copy any content from any publisher in any language or currency within 30 seconds. See the In Focus:
iCopyright, Inc. article posted today on EContent which notes that "Access Copyright will be the distributor and operator of the iCopyright ...
16 Dec, 2008 7:44 pm
... FUJITSU FI-6130'S "REVERSE ROLLER TECHNOLOGY" WAS DEVELOPED WITH THE NEEDS OF LAW FIRMS IN MIND By Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. When shopping for a scanner for
your law firm or legal department, comparing the specifications is helpful. But don't buy a ... of paper. • Intelligent MultiFeed Function: Some double feeds such as a taped receipt are
intentional. Others such as a staple you forgot to remove are not. The Fujitsu fi-6130 knows the difference. • Speed + Duplex: The Fujitsu fi- ...
31 Jul, 2007 6:26 am
Nelson Peltz, Chairman of the Triarc Companies, Inc. yesterday wrote a letter to the Chairman of the board of directors of Wendy's International concerning the inability of the
two companies to reach agreement on several significant provisions of a confidentiality...
1 Oct, 2008 8:46 pm
... K, 2008 WL 4107656 (N.D. Tex. Aug. 29, 2008), the employee, Sandler, upon joining Staples, Inc., signed a "Proprietary and Confidential Information Agreement" and a
separate "Non-Compete and Non-Solicitation ... added: "Further, the confidentiality agreement signed contemporaneously with the noncompete provided a promise of confidential
information. Thus, Staples promised to provide Sandler with confidential information that would give rise to its interest in restraining Sadler from competing." The ...
4 May 6:16 am
... So what exactly are the right circumstances? If you are thinking outside the box like Staples, you partner up with Progress Through Business, a nonprofit organization
focusing on poverty ... amp;R Block to offer discounted tax preparation to low-income employees of Staples, Inc. thorough a pilot program called Tax Break first rolled out
... not want to see leave the company. In fact, the savings were even greater for Staples, because their costs related to unwanted turnover are even higher than McDonald ...
22 Aug, 2008 3:00 pm
Noonan v. Staples, Inc., No. 07-2159 (8/21/08) affirms a grant of summary judgment to Staples. Noonan was fired. Staples says he was fired ... argument that
the whole email painted a very nasty portrait of him, as arrogantly disregarding Staples policy based on a whim. You have to be an equity partner to do that. But, for this reason
... severance agreement claims: because he didn't comply with the letter of the contract, Staples gets to not honor its part. The actual malice theory fails as well. But, ...
13 Apr 3:23 am
Courtesy of my friends at PointofLaw.com is the story of the dangers that lurk when distributing information about an employee's termination. Staples fired one of its salesmen,
Alan Noonan, after an internal audit discovered he had deliberately falsified expense reports. The ... defamation based on the content of the email. Even though the contents of the
email were truthful, the court, in Noonan v. Staples, Inc. (1st Cir. 2/13/09), still found that Noonan could proceed to trial on his claim because ...
16 May, 2008 5:15 am
... of stores, and sales revenue grew 511%. Hanaka is a former COO and President of Staples, Inc. Woodbridge sought to elect Begelman and Hanaka in response to Office
Depot's steadily ... From May 2006 to May 2008, Office Depot's shares declined about 76% while Staples' share prices dropped about 22%, and the S&P 500 fell only 2 ... past
five years, Office Depot's share price dropped around 10% while Staples' rose by over 70%. As discussed on The Race to the Bottom, Office Depot rejected Woodbrige's board ...
22 Apr 12:40 pm
... U.S. 756 (1999). 10See, e.g., Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc., 127 S. Ct. 2705 (2007). 11See, e.g., Continental T ... . Hyde, 466 U.S. 2 (1984).
13See., e.g., Verizon Communications, Inc. v. Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinko, LLP, 540 U.S. 398 ( ... Heinz Co. v. FTC, 246 F.3d 708 (D.C. Cir. 2001); Staples,
Inc. v. FTC, 970 F. Supp. 1066 (D.D.C. 1997). ... T-201/04 (Judgment of the Court of First Instance, Sept. 17, 2007). 19FTC v. Staples, Inc., 970 F. Supp. 1066,
1091 (D.C. Cir. 1991) ("The ...
29 Oct, 2007 9:00 am
... all of the allegedly backdated options. Defendants in the case, who are all past and present executives and directors of Staples, Inc. ("the world's largest supplier
of office products"), allegedly benefited from up to 12 incidents of backdated ... . Before the suit had been filed, the Company conducted its own investigation into the options
practices. In a quarterly report, Staples revealed that, as a result of the review, it would record a $10.8 million expense (but not restate earnings). As the ...
29 Oct, 2007 12:00 pm
... 2007 WL 2593540 (Del. Ch. 2007). The case was brought against past and present executives and directors of Staples, Inc., and alleges up to 12 incidents of option
backdating between 1994 and 2003. In our last post ... , the court largely rejected statistical evidence designed to show knowledge. The court in Conrad, however, disagreed. As the
opinion noted: The Staples stockholder-approved option plans, by contrast, gave no discretion to the compensation committee in setting exercise prices--the grant ...
10 Sep, 2008 4:02 am
Noonan v. Staples, Inc., No. 07-2159, ___F.3d ___(1st Cir. Aug. 21, 2008), is an interesting case. In a claim of libel and breach of severance benefits agreements against
defendant Staples, Inc., grant of summary judgment for Staples is affirmed where:...
4 Jun, 2008 1:11 pm
On Tuesday, Staples Inc. raised to $2.6 billion its hostile bid for Dutch office supplies distributor Corporate Express NV. Under Dutch bidding rules, Staples
cannot raise its offer again. Rather than accepting two previous buyout offers from Staples, Corporate Express...
6 Dec, 2007 10:30 am
... to challenge either the independence or the disinterestedness of directors (citing Rales v. Blasband, supra, and In re infoUSA, Inc. S'holders Litig., 2007 Del. Ch. LEXIS
123, at *58 (Aug. 13, 2007)). In sum, ... States Supreme Court's definition of materiality, including recent Delaware disclosure opinions in the cases of In re Netsmart Techs.,
Inc. S'holders Litig., 924 A.2d 171, 208 n.115 (Del. Ch. 2007 (quoting In re Staples Inc. S'holders Litig., 729 A.2d 934, 954 (Del. Ch. 2001)); and In re ...
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