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November 28, 2023
Dollar General has been hit with a proposed class action by an investor alleging the discount retailer opened more stores and overcharged products to inflate the company's share price even though corporatewide staffing problems were ultimately causing merchandise losses on a grand scale, which in turn led to a drop in share prices after the issues became known.
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November 28, 2023
A New Jersey state appeals court dealt another win to Aetna Inc. on Tuesday in a multijurisdictional dispute by a woman claiming the insurer unlawfully demanded reimbursement from proceeds she obtained in her car accident lawsuit, rejecting her claims that Aetna failed to provide the proper paperwork leading to a delayed appeal.
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November 28, 2023
Major U.S. law firms are steadfast in their commitment to the pursuit of further growth despite ongoing economic uncertainty. Here’s what the leaders of four Leaderboard firms have to say about how the legal industry is preparing for next year.
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November 28, 2023
Check out the Law360 Pulse Leaderboard to see which first-in-class firms made the list this year.
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November 27, 2023
Two Native American advocacy groups are urging a Ninth Circuit panel to overturn a Montana district court's ruling that the federal government isn't responsible for the actions of its Bureau of Indian Affairs officers, saying the prospect that the case is not suitable for torts litigation undermines the safety of Native American women.
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November 27, 2023
Six groups, including the Ohio Chamber of Commerce and several former state supreme court judges, filed friend-of-the-court briefs on Monday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a decades-old legal doctrine stating that courts must defer to federal agencies' interpretation of ambiguous laws.
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November 27, 2023
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency hired its first-ever chief financial technology officer earlier this year, touting him as a nearly 30-year financial sector veteran. But records obtained by Law360 indicate a fabricated professional background that suggests the agency may have been hoodwinked when hiring him.
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November 27, 2023
A former Papa John's manager wants to assuage a Kentucky federal judge's concerns over a $5 million settlement resolving claims over "no poach" provisions in the pizza chain's franchise agreements, arguing it doesn't matter that the deal covers both managerial and non-managerial workers or that some of them signed arbitration agreements because all plaintiffs were harmed by a "uniform" wage policy and all are making the same claim with the same theory of damages.
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November 27, 2023
The Hanover Insurance Co. on Monday voluntarily dropped its Arkansas federal court lawsuit seeking to escape paying for a plastics company's defense and indemnity in a biometric data collection class action, claiming its insured is no longer seeking coverage.
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November 27, 2023
New York-based musical instrument retailer Sam Ash fired a veteran employee just eight days after he told his boss that he had been diagnosed with liver cancer, according to a suit filed Monday in state court.
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November 27, 2023
A former Allstate agent has agreed not to sell competing products to her former customers as part of a deal resolving allegations she improperly used Allstate's client lists and confidential information after she stopped working with the company, according to an order filed Friday.
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November 27, 2023
The future of U.S. Department of Justice criminal prosecutions against "no-poach" deals between rival employers appears troubled after the DOJ dropped its last still-pending public case following a series of high-profile losses, in one of two cases Antitrust Division prosecutors quietly abandoned in a single week.
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November 27, 2023
A Colorado federal judge backed a magistrate judge's call to mostly deny Dish Network's bid to dismiss a lawsuit brought by former employees alleging the company hurt their retirement savings by failing to nix underperforming investments from its plan.
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November 27, 2023
Delaware's Chancery Court stuffed a lot into a shortened Thanksgiving week, with new cases involving wrestling promoter Vince McMahon, billionaire Howard Lutnick and activist investor Carl Icahn.
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November 22, 2023
A North Carolina school board urged the North Carolina Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a decision forcing it to pay nearly $200,000 to the state retirement system, arguing that the pension rule the decision is based on was illegally adopted and is being unfairly applied.
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November 22, 2023
A Northern Cheyenne woman who was sexually assaulted on her Montana reservation by an on-duty Bureau of Indian Affairs officer is asking the Ninth Circuit to overturn a lower court's ruling that the federal government can't be held responsible for his actions, saying the determination makes it impossible for victims like herself to prevail.
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November 22, 2023
The family of a woman who died last year of an asthma attack that began while she worked in a Massachusetts cannabis processing plant has sued the marijuana company and its contractors in state court, alleging that their misconduct and negligence were responsible for her death.
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November 22, 2023
Four former senior staffers at the Texas attorney general's office have asked a judge to require Attorney General Ken Paxton and three of his top deputies to sit for depositions in their retaliation lawsuit, calling the office's arguments that the case has been settled a "stall tactic" that should be rejected.
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November 22, 2023
An attorney who was recently cleared on ethics charges stemming from May 2020 tweets calling for Black Lives Matter demonstrators to be shot can't recoup $4,000 in attorney fees just yet, because the State Bar of California is appealing that decision.
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November 22, 2023
Experts say federal agencies and courts have drifted away from relying on Chevron deference in recent years, following the lead of U.S. Supreme Court justices who have criticized it, but the doctrine hasn't been totally abandoned by lower courts — and a closely watched high court case could decide its ultimate fate.
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November 22, 2023
A Georgia man has been sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for impersonating unemployment applicants to file fraudulent unemployment claims for more than $200,000 in benefits at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Wednesday press release from federal prosecutors.
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November 21, 2023
First Guaranty Mortgage and a proposed class representing employees laid off in 2022 asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to approve a settlement of $1.75 million to close out the ex-staff's WARN Act claims in a Chapter 11 adversary proceeding against the home loan originator.
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November 21, 2023
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Tuesday a pest-control technician was in the course of employment when he was seriously injured in an accident while driving an employer-owned vehicle to his employer's shop, holding that his injuries are compensable under the state Workers' Compensation Act.
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November 21, 2023
Jersey City's policy banning cops from off-duty marijuana use is unlawful and politically motivated, two police officers are saying in a lawsuit against the city and its records custodian.
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November 21, 2023
The North Carolina Court of Appeals on Tuesday threw out a roofing company's appeal seeking an injunction to enforce a noncompete clause against a former employee, finding that the company made no effort to establish the court's jurisdiction concerning an interim judgment.