Litigation
Northwestern officially asked the National Labor Relations Board to overturn its March decision that Northwestern football players are employees, and […]
Three compelling incentives for cooperating early with opposition, and why cooperation is almost always better than crying foul over minor ediscovery procedural disputes.
The legal fees resulting from a Wachovia/Wells Fargo merger class action – appealed after lawyers billed 3,000 hours and asked for $2 million – have come in at just over $1 million, still a steal considering the class action achieved next to nothing, Brooks Pierce attorney Mack Sperling says.
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.
As the result of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, defendants in consumer class actions are empowered to remove […]
Monday’s split decision about the SEC’s conflict mineral rule has thrown into question exactly what will need to be reported, and how…
Litigation – long seen as the last holdout for hourly billing – is increasingly being billed with alternative methods, now […]
Add another item to the list of problems can follow a data breach. A district court in New Jersey has […]
Volunteers who perform services for an “amusement or recreational establishment,” which operates for less than seven months of the year, […]
A California judge who earlier had ruled that a class action could not certified against the social media site, said […]
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