Litigation

State Bar Authority Clipped By SCOTUS Decision

In a case that is likely to have repercussions for state bar associations, the Supreme Court has ruled that state […]

Fortune: Chief Justice Will Save Obamacare, Again

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, “with his sensitivity to preserving the Court’s limited reservoir of credibility,” is unlikely to […]

EEOC Clobbered In Ban-The-Box Case, But More Cases Loom

Summary Judgment in favor of the employer in a matter involving the employer’s use of criminal background and credit checks […]

New Yorker: SCOTUS Health Care Case Is Life Or Death

In King v. Burwell, the Affordable Health Care Act lawsuit soon to be heard before the Supreme Court, the claim […]

Shareholder Lawsuits After M&A: The Cornerstone Study

Last year the overwhelming majority – 93 percent – of M&A deals valued at more than $100 million were followed […]

Cutting Employee Hours To Dodge Obamacare – Or Not?

Employees have accused Staples Inc. of purposefully keeping some employees at under 30 hours in order to avoid making them […]

Disclosure Leeway Affirmed In 1st Circuit Case

Cooley LLP partner Lyle Roberts, writing in his blog The 10b-5 Daily, looks at a case that clarifies the extent […]

SCOTUS Sympathetic To Hijab-Wearing Woman In Discrimination Case

The Supreme Court Justices all but openly mocked the argument from Abercrombie & Fitch’s lawyers that the company could not […]

“Too Black” Waitress Can File A Title VII Claim

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that discrimination on the basis of “color” can be the foundation of […]

Food Processing Patents “Post-Alice”

Eligibility of processing patents, both before and following the Supreme Court’s 2014 decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int’, and a recent case in which…

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