Summer days are over and it’s time to hit the books. State legislatures were just as busy in 2024 as they were in 2023 making up for the U.S. Congress’s inability to pass a comprehensive privacy law…
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/ Consumer Protection, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Until recently, Oregon courts did not allow policyholders to bring claims against their insurers under Oregon’s Unfair Claims Settlement Practices Act and only allowed tort-based “bad faith” claims in narrow circumstances. This…
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/ Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts, Insurance
Recently, the California Supreme Court found that a plaintiff’s claim based on a single (disputed) racial epithet by a non-supervisory coworker was sufficient to form the basis of a hostile work environment claim—it was…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In the dynamic environment of K-12 education, maintaining an appropriate, safe, and supportive workplace is crucial. State and federal laws provide expanded protections for employees in relation to harassment, discrimination,…
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/ Civil Rights, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
Companies’ use of their customers’ biometric data has been increasing for a couple of decades. Numerous state and federal laws regulate how consumer biometric data can be stored and used and require notices to consumers about…
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/ Labor & Employment Law, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Between hybrid work, flexible schedules, online meetings, and the ubiquity of social media, the lines between in and out of office conduct continue to get murkier and create potential tagalong liability that persists for…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Summer vacation is winding down and teachers and students will soon be returning to classrooms across Oregon. While teachers are freshening up their classrooms for the new school year, administrators should remember to freshen…
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/ Education Law, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
On May 7, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a much-anticipated new rule that would have prohibited ALL new noncompetes with employees nationwide, and enforcement of almost all existing noncompetes beginning…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
The Washington Supreme Court’s March 14, 2024 decision in Gardens Condominium v. Farmers Insurance Exchange held that an all-risk policy’s resulting loss clause preserves coverage for non-excluded losses that are the natural…
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/ Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts, Insurance
On May 7, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a much-anticipated new rule that, once in effect, will prohibit ALL new noncompetes with employees nationwide, and enforcement of almost all existing noncompetes…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
On May 14, 2024, the King County Council adopted a minimum wage higher than the state minimum wage (and some of the cities inside King County) for all employees working anywhere in unincorporated King County…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
Folks who attended Miller Nash’s Annual Employment Law Seminar last fall may remember a discussion about a case brought by Nevada call center workers seeking compensation for their time booting up and shutting down their…
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/ Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
When you think about artificial intelligence (AI), does your pulse start to race? Or are you excited to embrace it, but stuck in the quagmire of often conflicting, and even alarmist, information that seems to be coming at you…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology
The Ninth Circuit’s May 30, 2024 decision in Bercy v. City of Phoenix precludes employees from bringing Title VII employment claims that the employee could have brought before filing for personal bankruptcy. These claims belong…
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/ Bankruptcy, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, No. 22-451, June 28, 2024, overruled long-standing precedent under which courts were to provide substantial deference to federal…
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/ Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
