Litigation
Entry-level hiring at major law firms is bouncing back from recession lows, but “it’s still very much a buyer’s market,” […]
The case turned on whether a claim made under ERISA, by a woman who alleged retaliation that included termination of […]
Business groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, that favor the recent Delaware Supreme Court ruling that would allow companies […]
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously today, in Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank International, that software based on an abstract idea […]
Historically, bribe recipients have been the major target of China’s anti-corruption enforcement, but the emphasis has shifted to encompass the […]
In an important Fourth Amendment case, the Second Circuit has ruled that the government’s right to overseize computer files pursuant […]
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld most of a district court’s determination that an academic consortium’s digital archiving project […]
The Seventh Circuit Appeals Court recently rejected a class action settlement that Judge Richard Posner found “inequitable – even scandalous.” The opinion identified myriad warning signs that demonstrated that the settlement “flunked the ‘fairness’ standard,” and should have been rejected by the district court.
Why are so few cases declared “frivolous,” and award of actual attorneys’ fees for filing bad faith lawsuits so few and far between? Varnum LLP attorney William Rohn posits the theory that when it comes to a litigant’s motives, they’re innocent until proven guilty.
This week’s Vergara v. State of California trial court decision will make it easier for California school districts to keep new teachers in “at will” probationary status longer, to fire tenured teachers, and to lay off bad teachers with a lot of seniority. As a lawyer for school districts, that sounds pretty good, but attorney Michael Hersher argues the reasoning and the factual underpinnings in the Vergara decision are seriously flawed.
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