Tag: court

July 29, 2022

Late summer odds and ends. Catholic school guidance counselor supervisor is a “minister,” court says. And therefore she can’t sue the Archdiocese of Indianapolis for refusing to renew her contract after she entered into a same-sex union. About a year […]

September 1, 2021

A divorce or legal separation doesn’t require a court hearing to decide how to divide up the property, who gets custody of the kids, and how often visitation can happen. In fact, litigating a divorce in court is a last […]

July 8, 2021

The superior court of Los Angeles County has been fined more than $25,000 for COVID-19 workplace safety violations following the deaths of at least four courthouse workers. The superior court plans to appeal the violations, according to a court spokeswoman […]

June 4, 2021

Recently, the Louisiana Court of Appeal, First Circuit, in Thompson v. Cenac Towing Co., L.L.C., analyzed a trial court’s grant of summary judgment in a company’s favor after a noose-like rope was found hanging in a maritime workplace and held that the […]

May 25, 2021

An Ohio lawyer sanctioned $1,500 for filing a substandard appellate brief told a federal appeals court on Friday that his failures stemmed from the COVID-19 death of his 96-year-old mother. Columbus, Ohio, lawyer Percy Squire apologized after the 6th U.S. […]

May 18, 2021

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit declined to enforce a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision that an employer refused to bargain with a union. The NLRB was at fault in preventing at least one […]

May 12, 2021

An employee with a knee injury who sought Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits by claiming that he was totally disabled could not sue his employer for his discharge under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Family and Medical […]

May 11, 2021

On April 30, 2021 a California district court trimmed various federal privacy-related claims, including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) claim, from a highly-visible, ongoing putative class action against fintech services company Plaid Inc. (“Plaid”), but allowed other state […]

May 10, 2021

An employee could proceed with her employment discrimination lawsuit after filing an administrative complaint with the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) even though the complaint did not use the company’s legal name, a California appeals court ruled. The […]

April 30, 2021

The New York State Board of Law Examiners has sovereign immunity from a lawsuit claim by a Harvard Law School graduate who sued over failure to accommodate her anxiety-related disability, a federal appeals court has ruled. The 2nd U.S. Circuit […]

April 6, 2021

NEW DELHI: The government has amended the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code to provide for prepackaged resolution framework for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) through promulgation of an ordinance. The alternative insolvency resolution framework is expected to bring about a […]

April 1, 2021

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled for Facebook on Thursday in a dispute over the reach of a law that restricts calls to cellphones made with an “automatic telephone dialing system.” The high court ruled that the provision in the Telephone […]

March 29, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held Friday that public universities cannot compel professors to respect student pronoun preferences. Per the court, such speech is protected under the First Amendment, particularly if pronoun preferences go against a […]

March 16, 2021

In a notice submitted to the US Supreme Court on Monday, acting Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar stated that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has reconsidered its position with regard to whether possession of a small amount of cocaine base […]

March 15, 2021

Years of convictions could be at risk following a Washington Supreme Court decision that struck down the state’s felony drug possession law. The state supreme court ruled Feb. 25 that the state’s strict liability law is unconstitutional because it doesn’t […]

March 15, 2021

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia granted an injunction Friday preventing the Department of Defense (DOD) from enforcing restrictions against Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi. Earlier this year, the DOD designated Xiaomi a “Communist Chinese […]

February 25, 2021

The US Supreme Court heard arguments in the consolidated cases Wilkinson v. Dai and Wilkinson v. Alcaraz-Enriquez on Tuesday. The main issue before the court is”[w]hether a court of appeals may conclusively presume that an asylum applicant’s testimony is credible […]

February 23, 2021

The US Supreme Court granted review Monday in cases ranging from reproductive healthcare funding to the Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984 and also rejected a challenge to the 2020 election. The court granted review of three cases that it […]

January 29, 2021

Bank Employee Who Was Harassed By A Customer Can Proceed With Sexual Harassment Claim Christian v. Umpqua Bank, 2020 WL 7777882 (9th Cir. 2020) Jennifer Christian, a former employee of Umpqua Bank, alleged she was sexually harassed by one of […]

January 25, 2021

Data breach litigations rarely make it to motions for class certification. This trend makes each decision that does come out addressing class certification in the data breach context that much more interesting. Well, last week a federal court denied a […]