by admin | Sep 28, 2015 | Law: Top National Stories & Decisions
Former Orrick litigator Preston Burton will serve as a friend to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court as it weighs a government request to hold onto secretly collected telephone data. Read more here: Ex-Spy Defender, Lewinsky Lawyer Tapped to Advise on Gov’t...
by admin | Sep 28, 2015 | Law: Top National Stories & Decisions
The Federal Arbitration Act doesn’t preempt state carve-out for PAGA claims, the appeals court ruled 2-1. See the original post: Ninth Circuit Upholds California’s Ban on PAGA Waivers
by admin | Sep 28, 2015 | Law: Top National Stories & Decisions
The nation’s busiest patent judge recently eliminated nearly 10 percent of his docket by ruling that a serial plaintiff’s claims were not eligible for a patent. He will now consider whether the litigation amounts to an "exceptional case," which...
by admin | Sep 28, 2015 | Law: Top National Stories & Decisions
Jurors showed signs Monday that they were straining to understand their obligations, much less to reach a consensus regarding the guilt of Dewey & LeBoeuf’s former leaders. Go here to read the rest: Dewey & LeBoeuf Jury Wavers as Deliberations Stretch...
by admin | Sep 28, 2015 | Law: Top National Stories & Decisions
A federal judge in Newark has approved a $2.8 million settlement of a suit claiming that Macy’s and HomeDeliveryLink Inc. wrongly designated drivers who deliver furniture to customers from the retailer’s Edison warehouse as independent contractors. More...
by admin | Sep 28, 2015 | Law: Top National Stories & Decisions
Federal regulators have failed in their bid to punish Bayer Corp. for what they called overinflated claims about a probiotic supplement. Continued here: FTC Suit vs. Bayer Over Probiotic Claims Rejected
