Litigation

Federal Court Upholds FTC’s Authority To Bring Enforcement Actions Over Data-Security Standards; Will Class Actions Follow?

Companies can expect the FTC to continue, or even expand, its efforts to regulate data-security standards through enforcement actions after a federal district court upheld its right to do so under the “unfairness” authority.

Supreme Court Will Review Class Action Removal Criteria

As the result of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, defendants in consumer class actions are empowered to remove […]

Conflict Mineral Disclosure Requirement Partially Struck Down

Monday’s split decision about the SEC’s conflict mineral rule has thrown into question exactly what will need to be reported, and how…

Hourly Rate, Even For Litigation, Increasingly Scarce

Litigation – long seen as the last holdout for hourly billing – is increasingly being billed with alternative methods, now […]

FTC Data Breach Action Raises Insurance Issue

Add another item to the list of  problems can follow a data breach. A district court in New Jersey has […]

MLB Volunteers Not Employees Under FLSA, Court Rules

Volunteers who perform services for an “amusement or recreational establishment,” which operates for less than seven months of the year, […]

LinkedIn May Be Sued For Misrepresenting Security Practices, Judge Rules

A California judge who earlier had ruled that a class action could not certified against the social media site, said […]

Where To Try Hackers? Appeals Court Overturns Prison Sentence, Citing Wrong Venue

A mistake in choosing what state to try a self-described “Internet troll” who stole more than 114,000 AT&T customers’ data […]

SCOTUS Ruling Increases Private Company Risk – Imminent Need for Business Ethics Training

Private contractors working for public companies are now covered under the Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower protections, leading many to review their compliance programs with fresh eyes.

The Most Litigious NPEs in 2013

In what’s described as an effort to bring “transparency to the monetization market” and what some will no doubt call […]

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