Ex-CEO's lawsuit against the comedian/activist will proceed. Who ever thought personal jurisdiction could be interesting?
In April 2021, the CEO of a telehealth company was eating dinner with his wife at a hotel in a suburb...more
11/3/2023
/ Activist ,
Appeals ,
Appellate Courts ,
CEOs ,
Cyber Threats ,
Due Process ,
Harassment ,
Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress ,
Personal Jurisdiction ,
Social Media ,
Tortious Interference ,
Twitter
The case is now moot, says the D.C. Circuit.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has dismissed as moot the appeal of the government in the case of National Women's Law Center v. Office of...more
What the Supreme Court's decision in Fort Bend really means.
As you may have heard, the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed a plaintiff to proceed with a Title VII religious discrimination lawsuit even though she didn't file a...more
6/7/2019
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Amended Complaints ,
Appeals ,
Charge-Filing Preconditions ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Forfeiture ,
Fort Bend County Texas v Davis ,
Jurisdictional Requirements ,
Mandatory Claim-Processing Rules ,
Reaffirmation ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Religious Discrimination ,
Retaliation ,
Reversal ,
SCOTUS ,
Time-Barred Claims ,
Title VII ,
Waiver Rule ,
Wrongful Termination
*EDITOR’S NOTE: This “daily” stuff has now officially become “more or less — maybe once a week, anyway.”
For background on the immigration issue, please see this bulletin and this follow-up, both by Will Krasnow and...more
None of us is immune from the Streisand Effect. Not even employers.
A real estate firm in Dallas sued its ex-bookkeeper, Jacqueline, for embezzling approximately $400,000 over a four-year period by writing checks to phony...more
Former sports columnist T.J. Simers sued the Los Angeles Times for age and disability discrimination, among other things, when he quit his job in 2013. The Times had allegedly demoted him (although with no cut in his salary...more
The U.S. Courts of Appeal hear appeals from federal district courts in their assigned states, or as otherwise specified below:
- First Circuit: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, and Puerto Rico....more
The Marchuk v. Faruqi law firm sexual harassment case has been “amicably resolved.” Now, what will we gossip about?...more
Large law firms and legal services vendors often hire stables of contract lawyers to do document review in big cases. Sometimes, the lawyers who do the review are actually reading and analyzing the documents in light of the...more
You may recall that in early October the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review decisions from U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Seventh, and Tenth circuits* that struck down same-sex marriage bans....more
Law 360 reports this morning that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has agreed to rehear the EEOC v. Ford Motor Co. case, which I reported on (and disagreed with) in April. The original decision, holding that...more
Rarely does one get a case that involves a cutting-edge Americans with Disabilities Act issue combined with wild, crazy, passionate, irrationally exuberant, tempestuous, adulterous romance. Well, folks, today is your lucky...more