On March 8, 2024, a federal district court in Texas vacated the National Labor Relations Board’s 2023 joint employer rule. The 2023 rule, which was set to take effect on March 11, would have expanded the joint employer test...more
Faegre Drinker’s 2021 Food & Agribusiness National Conference assembled speakers from global, market-leading companies from across the industry to discuss major issues and trends of note from across market segments and...more
Motions to dismiss in consumer fraud cases often focus on the element of deception—whether a reasonable consumer would be deceived by the statement or practice at issue. But there is another element of statutory consumer...more
Ever since the Supreme Court’s decision in Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer, 573 U.S. 409 (2014), plaintiffs’ attorneys have been trying to crack the code for pleading an ERISA duty-of-prudence claim against fiduciaries of...more
A federal court in New York recently granted a motion to dismiss claims that ice cream labeled “vanilla” misleads consumers into believing the product’s flavor comes exclusively from vanilla beans or extract, when in fact...more
The Ninth Circuit recently rejected a plaintiff’s request for attorneys’ fees under the so-called catalyst theory where the changes the defendant made in an effort to effectively moot the case were different from the changes...more
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 5 (AB-5) on September 18, 2019, which adopts the “ABC test” for certain California employment laws. Soon after, on September 24, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th...more
They are the words in-house counsel dread to see in the caption of a new lawsuit: “on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated.” ERISA class actions present special challenges and risks to plan sponsors and...more
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