On September 19, 2025, Florida’s Second District Court of Appeals affirmed a final judgment in favor of Florida Farm Bureau General Insurance Company (“FFB”) in an extra-contractual action. The case arose out of a fatal accident…
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/ Civil Procedure, Civil Remedies, Insurance
Imagine hiring a new manager who never sleeps, never takes a vacation and never complains. Sounds perfect, right? But what if that manager is an algorithm? In today’s workplace, that’s not science fiction. It’s reality. AI…
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/ Labor & Employment Law, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
In late September of 2025, the Trump administration issued the “Presidential Proclamation on Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers” (hereinafter the “Proclamation”). Pursuant to the Proclamation, “the entry into…
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/ Administrative Law, Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
An employer’s passwords may protect valuable information, but the passwords themselves lack independent economic value and thus fail to qualify as “trade secrets” under the Defend Trade Secrets Act.
Understanding trade…
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/ Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
Following the recent decision in Rivas v. Benny’s Prime Chophouse, where the Illinois Appellate Court allowed a civil claim to proceed despite arguments that the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act (“Act”) barred recovery, the…
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/ Labor & Employment Law, Personal Injury, Workers' Compensation
A recent decision from the Illinois Appellate Court offers a cautionary tale for employers—particularly those in hospitality and food service—about the risks of informal workplace practices and the importance of consistency in…
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/ Labor & Employment Law, Personal Injury
On October 31, 2025, Judge Edith Jones wrote for the Fifth Circuit in Hiran Management, Inc. v. NLRB: “Ninety years after Congress created the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) the NLRB claimed for the first time the…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Remedies, Labor & Employment Law
A new report from Anthropic, a leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) company, highlights a troubling development in the cybersecurity landscape: threat actors are now using AI to automate nearly every step of a cyber extortion…
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/ Consumer Protection, Criminal Law, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Does Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevent states from designating separate girls’ and boys’ sports teams based on biological sex determined at birth?…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law
In Jena Lhotsky v. Guy Sutcliffe, No. 2024-CA-1521-MR (Ky. Ct. App. Oct. 17, 2025), a recently published opinion, the Kentucky Court of Appeals proposed a substantial change to how courts across the Commonwealth analyze…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Insurance
In King v. UPS, decided on September 25, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a plaintiff’s race and age discrimination claims, as well as his hostile work…
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/ Civil Rights, Conflict of Laws, Labor & Employment Law
In Alvarado v. Wal-Mart Associates, Inc., issued by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on September 30, 2025, the court clarified the scope of awards under California Code of Civil Procedure Section 998…
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/ Civil Procedure, Civil Remedies, Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
On September 10, 2025, the Court of Appeals of Georgia decided the case of Kinnaird v. Morningview Homeowners Association, Inc. In this case, Kinnaird (homeowner) applied to the Association’s Architectural Review Committee to…
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/ Civil Remedies, Commercial Law & Contracts, Real Estate - Residential
The First District Court of Appeal recently struck down a Florida law that prohibited people from openly carrying firearms in public. The court held that section 790.053 violated the Second Amendment as applied to the states…
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/ Constitutional Law
On October 22, 2025, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (“SJC”) ruled that an employee’s agreed-to retention bonus did not constitute “wages” under the Wage Act, M.G.L. ch. 149, § 148…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
