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Frost & Sullivan Should Face Suit Over Hacked Data, Judge Says
WEBAug 19, 2024 · Cassandre Coyer. Frost & Sullivan Inc. should face a proposed class action accusing the law firm of exposing sensitive employee and client information in a 2023 data breach, a federal judge said. Plaintiff Don Hays filed a complaint in December 2023 accusing the firm of failing to protect sensitive data of current and former employees and ...
Wells Fargo Sued Over Alleged $4 Billion Cash Sweep Profits
WEBAug 1, 2024 · Wells Fargo & Co. breached its fiduciary duties to its customers by paying them only nominal interest on their cash accounts while making $4 billion in net interest from those accounts in 2023, a class action complaint filed in federal court says. Net interest income is the difference between the amount of interest that Wells Fargo pays to or …
FTC Noncompete Ban Loss Leaves Agency With Dilemma on …
WEBAug 21, 2024 · Justin Wise. Reporter. Judge says ban exceeded FTC rulemaking authority. Appeal of decision would go to conservative Fifth Circuit. The Federal Trade Commission is left with some thorny strategy questions after a Texas federal judge blocked a near-total ban on worker noncompete agreements on grounds it ran afoul of the agency’s legal authority.
Offshore Wind Projects at Risk Despite Wins in First Circuit
WEBDeep Dive. Litigation is making offshore wind energy projects vulnerable to death by delay despite favorable rulings by the First Circuit, which rejected challenges to the Vineyard Wind project from nearby residents. Vineyard Wind, the first operational commercial-scale offshore wind project in the US, is fending off four lawsuits alleging the ...
High Court Religious Bias Decision Paves Way for EEOC Vax Suits
WEBEEOC suits address religious bias over vaccination mandates. Higher bar for employers recently clarified by Supreme Court. The EEOC’s first-ever lawsuits filed against companies over failure to grant employee religious exemptions to Covid-19 vaccine policies signal the commission may be ready to bring many more such cases now that a US ...
Federal Circuit Extends Judge Newman’s Suspension Another Year
WEBSep 6, 2024 · The Federal Circuit extended its suspension of Judge Pauline Newman, the nation’s oldest active federal judge, by another year on Friday. Newman’s colleagues on the Judicial Council of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit unanimously voted to keep the judge off new cases—including appeals reviewed by the full court—for one …
Labor Board Sees Another Texas Judge Freeze Enforcement Case
WEB4 days ago · Agency lawyers represent the NLRB. The case is Aunt Bertha v. NLRB, N.D. Tex., No. 24-00798, 9/17/24. Continue Reading. To contact the reporter on this story: Robert Iafolla in Washington at [email protected]. To contact the editor responsible for this story: Jay-Anne B. Casuga at [email protected].
AI Standing Orders Proliferate as Federal Courts Forge Own Paths
WEBNov 8, 2023 · Baylson’s standing order is the most unusual of these four pioneers. It mandates disclosure of any use of AI—generative or not—and requires litigants using AI to certify that citations in a filing are “verified as accurate.”. Two former federal judges note that Baylson’s order, by its broad terms, “directs counsel to reveal the ...
NYC Outer Borough Landlords Flood Brooklyn’s Bankruptcy Court
WEB4 days ago · The owner of mixed-use residential and commercial space in Williamsburg that has long housed the Brooklyn neighborhood’s popular Radegast Hall & Biergarten filed for bankruptcy this year to avoid foreclosure and restructure $70 million of mortgage loan debt. Owner LENY Berry Holdings LLC said in court papers that the property should see up to ...