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31 May 2020, 9:01 pm by Joseph Margulies
I was a criminal defense and civil rights lawyer, and squared off against more than my share of Minneapolis police officers. [read post]
31 May 2020, 1:51 pm by Kevin LaCroix
As I have documented in prior posts (for example, here), publicly traded life sciences companies are frequent targets of securities class action lawsuits. [read post]
31 May 2020, 7:02 am
Does ideology and principle inevitably lead to the actions taken or do the actions taken form ideology in action? [read post]
28 May 2020, 6:25 pm
Unfortunately, many of these collisions are caused by the negligent actions of a driver. [read post]
28 May 2020, 12:59 pm by Kevin LaCroix
In September 2019, Sundial was hit with the first of a series of New York state court Section 11 class action lawsuits. [read post]
27 May 2020, 9:00 pm
  Part of the defense investigation is to check to see if the arresting officer has any reprimands of other actions that may cast doubt upon the officer’s character. [read post]
27 May 2020, 8:29 am by John Elwood
There’s a group of nine cases that in one way or another all challenge current qualified immunity doctrine, under which law enforcement officials are not liable for discretionary actions that allegedly violated someone’s rights unless the actions violated “clearly established” law. [read post]
27 May 2020, 6:31 am by David Kris
Legislatively, the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) expanded and streamlined authority in this area. [read post]
26 May 2020, 11:25 am by Elliot Setzer
Responsible for conceptualizing and implementing litigation strategies and tactics in complex court cases, including cases involving multiple plaintiffs and defendants; class actions; cases involving a wide range of legal claims, potentially to include a mix of federal-law and state- law claims; and cases arising in federal courts as well as in state courts around the country. [read post]
25 May 2020, 4:32 am by Peter S. Lubin and Patrick Austermuehle
While these decisions undoubtedly provide ammunition for class action defense attorneys, it remains to be seen whether other courts deciding the myriad similar lawsuits in New York will adopt a similar reasoning and approach. [read post]
22 May 2020, 12:30 pm by John Ross
In a trio of opinions, the Second Circuit allows a variety of claims and a putative class action to proceed. [read post]
22 May 2020, 8:05 am by Greg Mersol
In late 2019, the district court certified the case as a collective action under the EPA, and a class action under Title VII. [read post]
22 May 2020, 6:02 am
Strine (Harvard Law School) and Timothy Youmans (Federated Hermes), on Saturday, May 16, 2020 Tags: Accountability, Benefit corporation, Boards of Directors, Business Roundtable, Corporate Social Responsibility, Delaware cases, Delaware law, Disclosure, Duty of care, ESG, Institutional Investors, Long-Term value, Shareholder value, Stakeholders, Sustainability Courts Cut Shareholders Slack on Section 11 Claims Posted… [read post]
21 May 2020, 9:01 pm by Samuel Estreicher and Nicholas Saady
With the growth of franchises in our service sector and others modes of operation whereby major brands and corporations (“user companies”) have, as some claim, “off-loaded” their labor needs to other businesses who supply labor and other services to them (“supplier companies”), attention has increasingly turned to the “joint employer” doctrine of U.S. labor and employment law. [read post]
21 May 2020, 9:59 am by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
May 15, 2020), is important for workplace arbitration agreements in general and defense of workplace class actions in particular. [read post]
20 May 2020, 12:53 pm by Michael Cannan
A class action lawsuit allows populations of similarly situated people to act as one legal claimant, seeking compensation for the (more-or-less identical) harm they all suffered. [read post]
20 May 2020, 11:58 am by Silver Law Group
CPI Aerostructures (CVU), a publicly-traded company that produces aircraft parts and offers a variety of aircraft services for commercial and defense markets, is the subject of a class action lawsuit to recover damages for investors. [read post]
19 May 2020, 7:13 pm by Russell Knight
”  Child abduction is a class 4 felony in Illinois (1 to 3 years in prison). [read post]
19 May 2020, 11:50 am by Erin A. Sedmak and Theodore W. Seitz
In a consumer class action, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit was called on to decide whether “consumer reporting agencies to determine the legal validity of disputed debts. [read post]
19 May 2020, 11:43 am
That litigation includes thousands of cases spun from a class action against the nation's tobacco companies, which was ultimately decertified by the state’s supreme court. [read post]