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Texas Court Halts NLRB’s Proposed New Joint-Employer Rule

White and Williams LLP on 3/14/2024

On Friday, March 8, 2024, the Eastern District of Texas halted a new National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) joint-employer rule that would have taken effect on March 11, 2024. The new Joint-Employer Rule would have implemented...more

Food and Beverage Law Update: March 2021

Holland & Knight LLP on 3/18/2021

Insurers have prevailed in several lawsuits filed by restaurants in connection with losses related to COVID-19. For example, in Emerald Coast Restaurants, Inc. v. Aspen Specialty Ins. Co., No. 3:20cv5898-TKW-HTC, 2020 WL...more

Food and Beverage Law Update: October 2020

Holland & Knight LLP on 10/14/2020

More than six months into the pandemic, there is still no easy or definitive answer to the question many retailers are asking about whether there is coverage for their business interruption losses related to COVID-19....more

This Week at the Ninth: Sports, Drugs, and Pensions

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals on 8/14/2020

This week, we take a look at two Ninth Circuit decisions concerning the employer-employee relationship. In the first, the Court let the lawsuit against the NFL for its negligent handling of drug distribution to its injured...more

New York Appellate Court Sides Against The Second Circuit And Holds Class Action Waivers Violate The NLRA

Carlton Fields on 8/7/2017

Plaintiffs, former insurance agents for defendants New York Life Insurance Company and its related companies, brought a putative class action seeking recovery for allegedly illegal wage deductions and violations of overtime...more

Employment Law - June 2017 #2

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 6/19/2017

Class Certification Denial Reversed in Wake of Augustus - Why it matters - Applying the California Supreme Court’s recent decision in Augustus v. ABM Security Services, a California appellate panel reversed a trial court’s...more

Supreme Court to Hear Class Action Cases Involving Class Action Waivers and Tolling of Statutes of Limitations

Robinson+Cole Class Actions Insider on 1/19/2017

The U.S. Supreme Court recently granted certiorari in class action cases involving: (1) class action waivers in employment contracts; and (2) whether filing of a securities class action tolled a statute of repose. In both...more

Employment Law - September 2016

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 9/9/2016

Ninth Circuit Sides With NLRB on Class Waivers - Why it matters - Siding with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals pushed the question of whether it violates the National...more

Emerging Trends in Arbitration: Battle Brewing Between Executive and Judicial Branches

Stinson LLP on 4/12/2016

In recent years, arbitration has become a divisive issue. Exemplifying the increased public focus on arbitration, The New York Times ran a three-part series in 2015 that was very critical of the state of arbitration law. In...more

Retail and Consumer Products Law Roundup - March 2016

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 3/18/2016

Regulatory Whack-a-Mole: A Renewed Focus on Non-Hazardous Waste Recycling - Why it matters - In part due to a string of high-profile enforcements in multiple states, retailers by and large have evaluated the need to...more

New Year: Resolve, Review, Revise

Maynard Nexsen on 1/7/2015

The new year is a time for reflection. With that reflection often comes a resolve for change, from small modifications of some old habits to wholesale new beginnings and everything in between. From a business perspective,...more

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