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February 12, 2024
A Florida attorney convicted of conspiring to defraud a U.S. coronavirus pandemic relief program has asked a Georgia federal judge to vacate the jury's guilty verdict and either acquit her or order a new trial, arguing the government violated her due process rights by not submitting sufficient evidence to prove her guilt.
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February 09, 2024
A former Terminix worker urged the Ninth Circuit on Friday to vacate an order tossing his nonindividual wage claims while sending his individual California Private Attorneys General Act claims to arbitration, arguing he has standing to bring nonindividual claims under the California Supreme Court's decision in Adolph v. Uber Technologies.
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February 09, 2024
Old Dominion Freight is only raising a timing argument to dodge claims it unlawfully scans and stores employees' fingerprints without their consent because "it is upset," a group of workers told an Illinois federal judge Friday.
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February 09, 2024
Therapy app company SonderMind Inc. has filed a lawsuit in Denver state court alleging a former chief medical officer is violating a non-compete clause he signed by taking an identical role at rival company Rula Health.
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February 09, 2024
An Alabama federal court has ruled a former engineer for CSX Transportation Inc. can pursue his negligence claims against the railroad company, saying a layperson can understand how being close to a loud train horn could cause hearing loss without an expert's explanation.
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February 09, 2024
Two Nebraska-based technology companies say a former Connecticut salesman used the "unauthorized" artificial intelligence program Otter to record meetings, forwarded more than 200 confidential messages to his personal email address and made off with trade secrets for accounts worth $12 million after he was fired for cause on Feb. 1.
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February 09, 2024
A New Jersey state judge on Friday declined to remove McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP's former chief financial officer from a suit accusing him and his wife of stealing more than $3 million, noting that the heightened ethical duty imposed on law firms justifies keeping the claims alive.
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February 09, 2024
In this week's Off The Bench, a Tennessee judge sends mixed signals to the NCAA in the fight over its NIL recruiting ban, Dartmouth's basketball players tally a win for college athletes' unionization efforts, and DraftKings tries to stop rival Fanatics from benefiting from a former executive who switched sides. If you were on the sidelines over the past week, Law360 is here to clue you in on the biggest sports and betting stories that had our readers talking.
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February 08, 2024
First Citizens Bank has beefed up allegations that HSBC Holdings stole confidential information and poached employees from the failed Silicon Valley Bank, filing an amended complaint Wednesday in California federal court, claiming HSBC's top executives and chief legal officer knew of the alleged poaching conspiracy.
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February 08, 2024
Holding that a manager of a flavoring and aromas biotech company cannot tortiously interfere with a contract between the company and its former CEO, a Connecticut state court has clipped a counterclaim from a lawsuit that Oamic Ingredients LLC is pursuing against its ex-chief executive.
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February 08, 2024
The long-running trial of a Georgia probate judge accused of violating the state's Code of Judicial Conduct on social media and jailing a woman seeking to amend her marriage record wrapped Thursday, with the head of the state's judicial watchdog arguing she should be removed from the bench.
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February 08, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday trimmed a breach-of-contract claim from a biotech executive's lawsuit, but preserved the bulk of the complaint, which accuses CSL Behring of firing him to avoid having to pay him an incentive of up to $3 million for staying with CSL following an acquisition.
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February 08, 2024
A Georgia federal judge has scuttled claims from a former Wellstar Health Group executive who said he was fired after blowing the whistle on the healthcare system's questionable procurement practices, finding the company had plenty of grounds to terminate him over his "abrasive" management style.
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February 08, 2024
A former DraftKings Inc. executive who recently jumped to competitor Fanatics won't be allowed to use any of the information he allegedly accessed in his final days with the Massachusetts-based gaming platform to draw potential high-value Super Bowl bettors over to his new employer, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Thursday.
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February 08, 2024
A former billing manager for the New Jersey personal injury firm Brandon J. Broderick Attorney At Law claims she was fired for insisting that the firm's clients receive the most money possible from their settlements, according to a lawsuit filed in New Jersey state court.
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February 08, 2024
A medical equipment supplier that nabbed treble damages against Philips Medical Systems after a split verdict in a wide-ranging copyright and unfair competition case is now asking for at least six figures in interest, despite a judge previously denying a similar request by Philips.
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February 08, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday found that whistleblowers don't need to show retaliatory intent on the part of their employers in order to be protected under federal law, in a unanimous ruling in favor of a former UBS employee and whistleblower who fought to restore a $900,000 jury verdict he secured in 2017.
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February 07, 2024
Apple does not have to face an investor lawsuit accusing it of overpaying CEO Tim Cook and other top brass by tens of millions of dollars by improperly calculating the value of performance-based stock compensation, a New York federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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February 07, 2024
A California federal judge sentenced a former Apple engineer to nearly four months in prison after he pled guilty to stealing trade secrets while working on the company's self-driving car, saying the engineer should serve time in a minimum-security facility for the nonviolent offense.
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February 07, 2024
DraftKings is arguing that one of its former executives who left to join rival Fanatics must have his lawsuit over noncompete agreements heard in California federal court, not state court, saying he went to great lengths to defraud the court into thinking diversity jurisdiction doesn't apply.
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February 07, 2024
Retired police officers for a New Jersey township are entitled to full healthcare benefits without premium payments under a collective bargaining agreement, a state appellate panel ruled Wednesday, upholding an arbitration decision in the police officers' union's favor.
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February 08, 2024
A California federal judge has hit a CDF Labor Law LLP attorney with sanctions after finding that he recklessly questioned a former Individual Food Service employee about approaching the company's CEO concerning a settlement despite objections to entering text messages to the CEO into evidence, but determined she would hold off on deciding the amount until later in the case.
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February 07, 2024
An engineer who worked at an unnamed Malibu, California-based technology company stole trade secrets regarding nuclear missile detection after previously seeking to aid Chinese military research, the U.S. Department of Justice alleged in a criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday.
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February 06, 2024
Former college athletes urged a Colorado federal judge not to pause their proposed class action seeking a piece of broadcasting profits, arguing there's no reason to let the NCAA and major conferences pump the breaks while a multidistrict litigation panel mulls a transfer motion.
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February 06, 2024
A former cloud service project manager at Oracle in Canada cannot revive his lawsuit claiming the software company retaliated against him after he refused to participate in what he believed was fraud, the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday, saying federal whistleblower anti-retaliation laws don't apply outside the United States.