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9 Dec 2014, 1:02 pm
Often in the context of high-stakes class actions and collective actions, parties have litigated whether time spent undergoing a security screening must be compensated under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). [read post]
9 Dec 2014, 9:11 am
Fox said it's likely a decision, if it is strongly in favor of retailers, would be issued in early 2015.A longer wait for a decision would likely jangle nerves among defense lawyers since it would suggest the justices are more divided on the issue — and perhaps more likely to side with the Ninth Circuit, he said. [read post]
9 Dec 2014, 9:11 am
Fox said it's likely a decision, if it is strongly in favor of retailers, would be issued in early 2015.A longer wait for a decision would likely jangle nerves among defense lawyers since it would suggest the justices are more divided on the issue — and perhaps more likely to side with the Ninth Circuit, he said. [read post]
9 Dec 2014, 7:03 am
The ruling is important for all employers involved in workplace class action litigation. [read post]
8 Dec 2014, 3:23 pm
Ct. 1523 (2013), lawyers have debated whether a defendant can defeat a class action by offering full relief to the named plaintiff(s), either before a class is certified, or before a motion for class certification is filed. [read post]
8 Dec 2014, 11:04 am
Implications For Employers Rule 68 offers of judgment are an important part of a class action defense tool box. [read post]
7 Dec 2014, 9:00 pm
Counsel clients, including ODNI leaders, on legal issues and provide effective guidance on possible courses of action; prepare documents on legal issues for a variety of internal and external recipients. [read post]
7 Dec 2014, 3:33 pm
Some conservatives, such as Jonah Goldberg nonetheless, continue to argue that racial profiling is more defensible than affirmative action because it inflicts only minor harms on its victims, whereas racial preferences in college admissions inflict much greater damage, perhaps even a “lifetime loss” for students unable to attend their preferred college. [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 10:21 am
In what may be considered a blow to class action defense, this week the U.S. [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 3:53 am
Many of the options backdating cases were filed as derivative suits rather than as securities class action lawsuits (largely because the options backdating disclosures did not always result in the kinds of significant share price declines required to support a securities class action lawsuit). [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 1:14 am
In his defense Mr. [read post]
4 Dec 2014, 11:05 am
The petition asks the Court to review two questions: (1) whether a good faith belief that a patent is invalid is a defense to inducement of infringement, and (2) whether actual knowledge that the defendant’s actions would induce infringement must be proved by the plaintiff. [read post]
4 Dec 2014, 8:09 am
This and the posts that follow produces some of the materials I will be presenting to the class. [read post]
3 Dec 2014, 7:23 am
At its Conference on December 5, 2014, the Court will consider petitions seeking review of issues such as the appealability of an order denying confirmation of a bankruptcy plan, certification of a class action settlement resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and license-plate designs portraying the Confederacy under the First Amendment. [read post]
3 Dec 2014, 1:10 am
Defense lawyers, especially class-action defense lawyers, live in a world ruled by ambiguity. [read post]
28 Nov 2014, 12:06 pm
I attribute this to the meltdown of the economy which hit middle class families the hardest. [read post]
28 Nov 2014, 7:06 am
I attribute this to the meltdown of the economy which hit middle class families the hardest. [read post]
28 Nov 2014, 5:00 am
Murphy has consulted on well over 600 cases throughout the country, including civil, criminal and class action [read post]
26 Nov 2014, 1:50 pm
For instance, it could be a class of electrical components such as a capacitor, whether the component is designed for very low or very high voltages, or for mass production as in automotive applications or smaller production as in the aerospace or oil & gas upstream applications. [read post]
26 Nov 2014, 11:36 am
Yet I venture the further guess that the third-party vendor in question is not quaking in fear of federal enforcement in defense of the Swiss coat of arms. [read post]
