Pyett, No. 07-581Enforceability of collectively bargained arbitration clause(From SCOTUSwiki): Justice Thomas's majority opinion held that nothing in either the National Labor Relations Act, which controls collective bargaining agreements made on behalf of union members, or the ADEA forbids unions from mandating arbitration to resolve statutory discrimination claims. [read post]

The commission envisioned that the bureau would be “the government statistical agency that collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates essential statistical data on cybersecurity, cyber incidents, and the cyber ecosystem to the American public, Congress, other federal agencies, state and local governments, and the private sector. [read post]

– ownership of IP: (Dilanchian), Consultant or contractor IP: (Dilanchian), IP and general business law issues: Website terms of use reduce risk: (Dilanchian), Plant breeder’s rights actions in the Federal Court will now be regarded as IP cases for the purpose of docket allocation: (IPwar’s), Ajinomoto v NutraSweet – inventive step and costs: (IPRoo), Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft 2020 submission:… [read post]

− suggests that federal due process rights likely constrain an interpretation that transforms a run‐of‐the‐mill registration and appointment statute into a corporate “consent” − perhaps unwitting − to the exercise of general jurisdiction by state courts.Brown, slip op. at 42. [read post]