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Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Regulations Survive Legal Challenge by State Attorneys General

EmployNews has previously covered the EEOC's Final Regulations Implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), which provided clarity to employers and workers about who is protected under the landmark statute, the...more

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Google Faces Eight-Figure Settlements Following Data Privacy Claims

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Google has agreed to pay a whopping $155M to resolve a government investigation and a class action lawsuit stemming from its use of location data, including claims that it stored and collected consumers’ location-related...more

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Federal and State Antitrust Enforcers Double Down on Stance Against No-Poach Agreements, Urging 2nd Circuit in Amicus Briefs to...

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In their latest condemnation of labor market restrictions, state and federal enforcers, in two recent friend-of-the-court filings, urged the 2nd Circuit to reverse the dismissal of a no-poach case. On August 4, twenty-one...more

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Losses Continue to Mount For ExxonMobil in its Fight to Prevent State Attorney General Climate Investigations

On March 15, 2020, the Second Circuit rejected an appeal brought by ExxonMobil attempting to block investigations by the New York and Massachusetts Attorneys General into historical claims made by Exxon regarding climate...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Bankruptcy Court Dismisses NRA’s Ch. 11 Petition

United States Bankruptcy Judge Harlin Hale recently dismissed the National Rifle Association’s Chapter 11 petition as not filed in good faith.  The decision leaves the 150-year-old gun-rights organization susceptible to the...more

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NRA Fails In Bid To Avoid New York Regulatory Regime By Filing For Bankruptcy And Reorganizing In Texas

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New York AG Letitia James obtained a ruling from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Texas, denying the National Rifle Association’s (“NRA”) bankruptcy petition... ...more

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NRA Bankruptcy Case Dismissed For Cause Because It Was Not Filed In Good Faith

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Judge Harlin D. Hale of the United State Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas dismissed the chapter 11 bankruptcy case filed by the National Rifle Association (the “NRA”) for cause, finding that the case was...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Update: Federal Judge Dismisses Landlords’ Challenge To NY Eviction Law

On April 14, 2021, U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of five landlords against Attorney General Letitia James (“AG James”) in the Eastern District of New York (Chrysafis, et al. v. James,...more

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP

New Law And Attorney General Directive Serve To Vacate Prior NJ State Court Marijuana Possession Verdicts, Pleas, And Diversionary...

On February 22, 2021, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law sweeping legislation that not only decriminalizes state marijuana-related offenses, but also serves to vacate prior guilty verdicts and pleas, as well as...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

COVID-19 and Unprecedented: Litigation Insights - Issue 20, August 2020

This 20th edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, finds both plaintiffs and defendants with reasons to celebrate. Insurance carriers avoided consolidation of coverage disputes in...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Unprecedented: COVID-19 Litigation Trends - Issue 16, 2020

This 16th edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, discusses claims ranging from insurance coverage disputes to prisoners’ rights. The top story this week, however, is undoubtedly a Michigan...more

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Federal Court Enjoins Enforcement of Massachusetts Attorney General’s COVID-19 Debt Collection Regulation

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On May 6, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, in ACA International v. Healey, Case No. 1:20-cv-10767-RGS, enjoined Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (AG Healey) from enforcing provisions...more

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Eleventh Circuit Denies Plaintiffs’ Right to Challenge Alabama Law as Discriminatory

On December 13, 2019, a split Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals (sitting en banc) ruled that several black plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge the discriminatory intent behind an Alabama law that blocked the city of...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Update: Maximum Ending for Alabama Minimum Wage Suit? Eleventh Circuit Affirms Lower Court’s Dismissal of Case Dealing with...

Ever wonder what happened with the minimum wage fight that has been going on between Alabama and Birmingham? Well, here is the latest — the full panel on the Eleventh Circuit has now spoken: the district court rightly...more

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Investigations Newsletter: Major Retail and Health Care Company Faces Fraudulent Billing Lawsuit

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Omnicare and CVS Face Fraudulent Billing Lawsuit - On Tuesday, the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced a False Claims Act lawsuit against Omnicare, Inc. and its parent company, CVS Health...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Supreme Court Decides Virginia House of Delegates v. Bethune-Hill

On June 17, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States decided Virginia House of Delegates v. Bethune-Hill, No. 18-281, holding that the Virginia House of Delegates and its speaker lacked standing to appeal an order...more

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