In a recent decision, the Colorado Supreme Court reminded employers that state law often differs from federal law when it comes to properly paying employers. One such area involves calculating the regular rate of pay for…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
A federal court last week sustained a First Amendment challenge to a Utah law aimed at addressing the use of social media platforms by minors, holding that the law’s proponents failed to demonstrate that the law served a…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Constitutional Law
On September 4, 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul signed S8358C, the New York Retail Worker Safety Act (RWSA), into law. Through the RWSA, New York state seeks to address growing threats of workplace violence and fears among retail…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
On August 29, 2024, a Seventh Circuit panel granted a midsuit request from Eli Lilly & Company to review a district court order granting collective certification to a sales representative in her age discrimination lawsuit. The…
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/ Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
On July 25, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas stayed the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) recently-issued final rule, set to take effect September 23, 2024, which would amend the definition of an…
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/ Finance & Banking, Labor & Employment Law
In a highly anticipated opinion, on August 23, 2024, the Fifth Circuit in Restaurant Law Center v. U.S. Department of Labor (Case No. 23-50562) struck down a Final Rule promulgated by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) that…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
On August 13, 2024, the Texas Attorney General’s Office (Texas AGO) filed a claim under Texas’s Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act challenging General Motors’ collection and use of data collected from consumers…
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/ Consumer Protection, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
On August 19, 2024, the Colorado Supreme Court announced that it will decide what statute of limitations applies to claims brought under the Colorado Minimum Wage Act – the Colorado Wage Claim Act ’s two or three-year statute of…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
On August 16, 2024, a divided Seventh Circuit panel held that a court needs to establish personal jurisdiction over each individual member of a Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) collective, further contributing to an existing…
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/ Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
Judge Ada E. Brown of the Northern District of Texas this afternoon granted summary judgment in favor of Ryan, LLC and the plaintiff-intervenors in the case of Ryan, LLC v. Federal Trade Commission challenging the FTC’s ban on…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
In the California case of Okonowsky v. Garland, a male supervisor in a federal prison (a lieutenant) used his private Instagram account to post sexually offensive content about a female prison psychologist. The District Court…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
In May, we told you about proposed revisions to the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) that should provide some welcome relief for defendants. Governor J.B. Pritzker has now signed that reform legislation into…
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/ Consumer Protection, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
On July 30, 2024, the Texas Attorney General’s Office announced a $1.4 billion settlement of biometric privacy claims brought against Meta arising from Meta’s historical use of facial recognition technology on photographs posted…
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/ Consumer Protection, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
On June 18, 2024, the SEC announced the settlement of administrative proceedings brought against a marketing and business communications firm for alleged internal accounting control deficiencies that caused the firm’s failure to…
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/ Science, Computers, & Technology, Securities Law
On June 14, 2024, the SEC announced the settlement of administrative proceedings brought against a registered investment adviser for disseminating allegedly misleading performance information of a private fund that it advised. …
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/ Business Torts, Securities Law
