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February 16, 2024
California's privacy regulator is expected to not waste any time responding to a recent ruling that cleared the way for the fledgling agency to begin immediately enforcing the rules it's crafted under the state's data protection law, making it vital for businesses and employers to adjust their compliance efforts to meet the accelerated timeline.
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February 16, 2024
The Fifth Circuit on Thursday refused to revive an engineer's claims that he was fired by defense contractor Raytheon for raising concerns about a naval system, saying that reviewing the case would implicate the Pentagon's protected decision to revoke his security clearance.
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February 16, 2024
The International Swimming League and swimmers urged the Ninth Circuit on Friday to revive their certified class antitrust claims against the sport's international governing body over its alleged 2018 "boycott" of an ISL event, arguing the lower court erred in finding the organization's actions didn't constitute a boycott.
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February 16, 2024
A Washington state judge pressed Boeing on Friday to explain why it should get a "free pass" in a lawsuit over birth defects allegedly caused by factory workers' chemical exposure, questioning the aerospace giant's argument that it didn't have a duty to workers' future children based on foreseeable harm.
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February 16, 2024
Former University of San Francisco baseball players cannot hold their social media messages "hostage" in a lawsuit that accuses the NCAA of enabling the sexual harassment they allegedly endured at the hands of two coaches, an Indiana magistrate judge ruled Thursday.
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February 16, 2024
The NCAA has settled a lawsuit brought by a Rutgers University basketball player who sued the organization earlier this month over claims it was trying to make him live out a punishment for sports betting violations that he had already served while a student-athlete at Iowa State University.
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February 16, 2024
Littler Mendelson PC has gained an "unfair advantage" and should be booted from defending a Florida pharmacy services company for using an inadvertently produced, privileged document in a deposition last week, a woman suing the company for whistleblower retaliation said.
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February 16, 2024
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP, now known as GRSM50, is bolstering its employment team, bringing in a Keeney Waite & Stevens APC business litigator as a partner in its San Diego office.
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February 15, 2024
Elon Musk announced Wednesday that he is taking SpaceX's business incorporation from Delaware to Texas, after Delaware's chancellor last month struck down his proposed $55 billion Tesla pay package.
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February 15, 2024
An Eleventh Circuit panel on Thursday ruled Georgia's university system is immune from a former employee's retaliation suit since it acted as an arm of the state even while administering federal funding for a children's Head Start program.
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February 15, 2024
A Washington federal judge has sided with the state in a proposed class action brought by two University of Washington professors seeking to block the state ethics board's director from combing through faculty emails during misconduct investigations, saying the emails are public records because the professors are public employees.
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February 15, 2024
A former DraftKings Inc. executive has asked a Massachusetts federal court to clarify the type of work he can perform for competitor Fanatics Inc. while the legal fight with his previous employer plays out, warning that the court's current order is too restrictive.
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February 15, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court receives thousands of petitions for review each term, but only a few make the news. Here, Law360 looks at four petitions filed in the past three weeks that you might've missed, including questions over how courts should analyze class certification bids and regulations restricting specific speech for content-neutral reasons, whether plaintiffs must reestablish standing after amending lawsuits, and what constitutes fraud.
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February 15, 2024
A credit repair services company being sued by a group of fired sales agents has called on a Michigan federal court to sanction them, saying their claim of not knowing if they had signed contracts with arbitration terms was an attempt to wriggle out of arbitration.
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February 14, 2024
A California federal judge on Wednesday kept alive key parts of a False Claims Act lawsuit brought by a former Kaiser Permanente compliance officer-turned-whistleblower alleging the large healthcare group schemed to defraud the federal government by inflating its Medicare capitation rates.
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February 14, 2024
A Chancery Court judge "got it backwards" when he concluded that 19 former executives of SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. weren't entitled to vesting rights in connection with a 2017 stock sale, because he read the executives' separation and equity agreements out of order, an attorney for the executives told Delaware's Supreme Court on Wednesday.
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February 14, 2024
A Progressive unit asked a North Carolina federal court Wednesday to grant it a win in its attempt to get out of providing coverage for an UberEats driver who was killed in a car crash, asserting that its policy for Uber doesn't cover injuries caused by uninsured or underinsured motorists.
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February 14, 2024
Gen Digital Inc. urged a D.C. federal judge Tuesday to reduce the $53 million judgment he recently increased from an initial $1.6 million award in a whistleblower False Claims Act case, saying he wrongly included some sales in his calculations.
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February 13, 2024
A Washington man's evidence that his employer knew of the risk of getting mesothelioma from asbestos exposure at an aerospace company's plant didn't demonstrate the company had "actual knowledge" he was going to be injured, a state appellate panel has ruled.
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February 13, 2024
Of the three COVID-19 oversight bodies responsible for handling complaints from contractor and grantee whistleblowers, only one believes that whistleblowers are clearly protected from retaliation under the law, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a report Tuesday.
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February 13, 2024
An insurer said it does not owe coverage to two security service companies facing several lawsuits filed by grocery store customers who claim they were battered by security guards, telling a California federal court that the companies owe it reimbursement because their policies don't cover bodily injuries.
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February 13, 2024
A former partner in an insurance brokerage who alleges the company gave him a lowball offer to buy back his shares after he was fired should have brought his complaint in Delaware, a North Carolina Business Court judge has ruled in granting the brokerage's motion to dismiss.
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February 13, 2024
Fluor Corp. pressed the South Carolina federal court to knock out a False Claims Act suit by former military officers, arguing that the law supporting the entire case unconstitutionally vests private citizens with government powers.
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February 13, 2024
Lawyers for a former DraftKings Inc. executive who recently defected to rival Fanatics are seeking more than $310,000 in attorney fees, arguing the amount is reasonable and would cover their work for two "objectively unreasonable" removals of the case to federal court by DraftKings, behavior they called "disturbing litigation conduct."
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February 13, 2024
DeCotiis FitzPatrick Cole & Giblin LLP has picked up a labor and employment attorney with over 20 years of experience and additional background in litigation, corporate law and commercial real estate from Guaglardi & Meliti LLP.