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DOJ "Triples Down" on View that Use of Pricing Algorithms Can Support Price-Fixing Claims

The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on March 28, 2024, weighed in for the third time in recent months in support of plaintiffs in class action lawsuits challenging the defendants' use of software to...more

The Latest Decisions in Actuarial Equivalent Lawsuits

In an opinion issued in Smith v. Rockwell Automation, Inc., et al., No. 19-C-0505 (E.D. Wis.) on Feb. 10, 2020, U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman denied Rockwell Automation's motion to dismiss a putative class action complaint...more

Ninth Circuit: Individual Employment Provision Cannot Compel Arbitration of 409(a) Claim - Ruling Leaves Open Whether Contracts or...

• The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit's recent decision in Munro v. University of Southern California concluded that an arbitration provision in individual employment contracts could not be used to compel...more

The Potential Impact of Supreme Court's Epic Systems Decision on ESOPs

• Although the Supreme Court's recent decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis was not a case under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the Court's analysis indicates that it would likely reject an...more

District Court Rules on ERISA Liability of Board and ESOP Advisory Committee Members in ESOP Transactions

On Sept. 1, 2016, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued its decision in the Antioch employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) fiduciary litigation. The court held that the Antioch Board of Directors...more

U.S. Supreme Court May Require Notice-and-Comment On More Agency Actions

On December 1, 2014, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Perez v. Mortgage Bankers Association and Nickols v. Mortgage Bankers Association to address whether a federal agency must engage in notice-and-comment rulemaking...more

D.C. Circuit Rejects Petitions Challenging Proposed NY-NJ Gas Pipeline

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals recently dismissed petitions brought by the City of Jersey City, NJ, and various environmental organizations challenging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's ("FERC") order granting a...more

EPA Directive Found to Violate Its Own Regional Consistency Regulations

A panel of the D.C. Circuit vacated EPA's Summit Directive--a directive which, in response to an unfavorable decision, imposed different regulatory requirements in one region of the country than those in force elsewhere. ...more

6/6/2014

Panel Holds Agencies Can Deny Rulemaking Petitions Based On Timing And Budget

This week, a unanimous three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit held that the EPA reasonably denied a petition to initiate rulemaking that would have considered whether to include coal mines on the list of stationary air...more

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