Wage and Hour, Constitutional Challenges, Equal Protection

Wisconsin Court Strikes Down Major Portions of Act 10 Affecting Public Sector Employees’ Collective Bargaining Rights

Quarles & Brady LLP on 12/9/2024

On December 2, 2024, a Dane County, Wisconsin Circuit Court issued a landmark decision striking down portions of 2011 Wisconsin Act 10 (“Act 10”) and thus affecting the collective bargaining rights of public sector employees...more

Food and Beverage Law Update: July 2021

Holland & Knight LLP on 7/20/2021

"The overwhelming majority of courts have concluded that neither COVID-19 nor the governmental orders associated with it cause or constitute property loss or damage for purposes of insurance coverage." So concluded the...more

Long Beach ‘Hero Pay’ Ordinance Survives Preliminary Injunction

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 3/8/2021

On February 25, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California denied a motion for preliminary injunction brought by the California Grocers Association (CGA) against the City of Long Beach. In California...more

COVID-19 Litigation Trends, Issue 14

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 7/13/2020

This 14th edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, showcases new and evolving trends. Employers are facing claims for both doing too much and too little in response to the COVID-19 pandemic....more

Who Me? Couldn’t Be: Eleventh Circuit Finds Plaintiffs Lack Standing to Sue Ala. Attorney General in Equal Protection Lawsuit

Carlton Fields on 1/8/2020

Plaintiffs often select a state’s Attorney General, the official who ordinarily exercises power to enforce state laws, as the defendant to sue in cases involving a constitutional challenge to a state law....more

Who’s Up Next? Now It’s Ride-Share and Delivery Companies’ Turn to File Suit Challenging California’s Controversial New...

Epstein Becker & Green on 1/2/2020

AB 5, California’s hastily passed and controversial independent contractor statute, which codifies the use of an “ABC test,” is set to go into effect on January 1, 2020. Already, the California Trucking Association has filed...more