Litigation

Challenges Mount For Mandatory Arbitration

Companies that have been shielded from class actions by mandatory arbitration clauses in consumer and employment contracts are facing a […]

How To Respond To Whistleblower Demands

The company receives a letter from a former employee, alleging the company has engaged in a financial fraud and demanding […]

Alito Cited 17th Century Witch-Hunter In His Memo

Justice Samuel Alito reached far back into the common law tradition to buttress the arguments he made against abortion in […]

Whistleblower Tipped IRS About AmEx Tax Scam

A whistleblower contacted the IRS about tax advice that American Express was giving its clients. The company claimed that card-processing […]

SEC Climate-Risk Proposal Will Face Major Challenges

The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed that public companies be required to provide extensive information about how company operations […]

Shareholder Suit: IBM Cooked The Books To Enhance Executive Pay

A class action securities lawsuit has been filed against IBM Corporation and four executives, including its current CEO, alleging violation […]

Money Talks About Free Speech

Shawnee State, a university in Ohio, is paying philosophy professor Nicholas Meriwether $400,000 because it rebuked him for refusing to […]

McKinsey’s Opioid Conflict Problem

News accounts in most major outlets and many of the minor ones have been pretty scathing. One source pegs the […]

Sued By A Lake In Florida State Court

We’ve seen animals as plaintiffs in court before, and in one case even an entire species, when an endangered bird […]

For Truck-Fleet Underwriters, High Tech Takes A Back Seat

From dashcams and blind-spot detectors to advanced driver-assist systems, onboard technology in trucks keeps getting more sophisticated. Nonetheless, for underwriters […]

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