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29 Jan 2014, 4:30 am by Jon Hyman
Your managers and supervisors are your front-line defense against unions. [read post]
28 Jan 2014, 11:10 am by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
In the past two years we have seen a combination of Supreme Court decisions help create a defensive barrier for employers in class action cases. [read post]
28 Jan 2014, 2:40 am by Andrew Trask
The Seventh Circuit took the appeal to clarify class action law, see Blair v. [read post]
27 Jan 2014, 10:37 am by H. Scott Leviant
  I would note that in the last Class Re-Action Podcast, we discussed with our mediator panel whether there was something akin to a market correction to the overly hostile treatment class actions received in recent years. [read post]
27 Jan 2014, 9:38 am by H. Scott Leviant
Appellant instead sought class certification under California's class action statute, Code of Civil Procedure section 382.5 Section 382 is analogous to subpart (a) of Rule 23, which establishes the four requirements of a class action. [read post]
27 Jan 2014, 7:33 am by Stephen D. Rosenberg
I had the distinct pleasure at an ERISA litigation conference recently of listening to a leading plaintiffs’ lawyer and a leading defense lawyer, who were both representing parties on opposite sides in class actions concerning whether benefit plans were actually church plans for purposes of ERISA, square off over the issue. [read post]
26 Jan 2014, 5:30 am by Barry Sookman
-> Computer and Internet Law Updates for 2014-01-24: Canadian Class Actions Monitor | Canadian Class Actions Lawy… http://t.co/xAdIPap6DL -> [read post]
25 Jan 2014, 4:44 pm by Lyle Denniston
“Windsor,” the opinion said, “requires that when state action discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation, we must examine its actual purposes and carefully consider the resulting inequality to ensure that our most fundamental institutions neither send nor reinforce messages of stigma or second-class status. [read post]
24 Jan 2014, 5:00 am by John Bellinger
The Washington Post reported last week that the salaries for the federal judiciary increased on January 1 after federal judges won a class action lawsuit last year challenging Congress’s refusal to give them cost-of-living increases. [read post]
24 Jan 2014, 12:57 am by Kevin LaCroix
In many jurisdictions, corporate officials sued for their actions undertaken in their corporate capacity may be able to defend themselves in reliance on the “business judgment rule. [read post]
24 Jan 2014, 12:57 am by Kevin LaCroix
In many jurisdictions, corporate officials sued for their actions undertaken in their corporate capacity may be able to defend themselves in reliance on the “business judgment rule. [read post]
23 Jan 2014, 6:53 am
  Rather Comment k is “premised on the assumption that all products within its scope carry some net benefit (relative to risks) for some class of consumers,” id., and thus doesn’t address the kind of claim the plaintiff advances. [read post]
22 Jan 2014, 1:33 am by Kevin LaCroix
Understand though that those metrics normally only cover “settlement costs” of securities class actions and derivative actions. [read post]
22 Jan 2014, 1:33 am by Kevin LaCroix
Understand though that those metrics normally only cover “settlement costs” of securities class actions and derivative actions. [read post]
21 Jan 2014, 11:38 am by Ronald Meisburg
  There, I said that lawful employer arbitration programs could be asserted as a defense to attempted class action court litigation. [read post]
21 Jan 2014, 8:30 am by azatty
” Their responses:*  Insurance defense: 46% Commercial litigation: 37% Employment: 28% Personal injury: 9% Personal/family law: 5% Class actions: 3% Securities/corporate governance: 3% Intellectual property: 1% Other: 3% Don’t know/no answer: 1% *Multiple responses were permitted. [read post]
20 Jan 2014, 12:28 am by Kevin LaCroix
The plaintiff class consisted nurses from eight different hospitals, not just from Beaumont. [read post]
20 Jan 2014, 12:28 am by Kevin LaCroix
The plaintiff class consisted nurses from eight different hospitals, not just from Beaumont. [read post]