If you are planning to start a new business you might also be hoping to do well enough to hire an employee or two and keep growing from there. Before you hire your first employee, however, you have a lot of things to consider to make sure that your business is...
Business Law Professionals
Month: April 2011
Transgender New Jersey man alleges wrongful termination, files lawsuit
A transgender New Jersey man has filed a lawsuit against his former employer for wrongful termination. According to a piece in Forbes, the case may be the first in the U.S. where a transgender person is claiming employment discrimination based on birth...
Winklevoss twins not ready to end litigation with Facebook
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are not ready to give up their fight against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly stealing their idea to create a social networking site. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, the twins have appealed the decision of a three-judge...
Sam’s Club settles ethnic harassment lawsuit
As the world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc seems to always be in the midst of commercial litigation of some kind. The company has also faced many employment lawsuits as the world's largest private employer. The company is currently waiting for the U.S....
Federal appeals court upholds 2008 Facebook settlement
As noted in a previous post, three former Harvard colleagues of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg have been continuing to pursue litigation against Zuckerberg even though they settled a lawsuit against him in 2008.Twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya...
Expansion of ADA could lead to more class action lawsuits
A final version was released recently of amendments added to the Americans with Disabilities Act in 2008. The ADA was expanded in response to U.S. Supreme Court decisions that narrowly interpreted the law that is meant to protect people from discrimination in...
Wal-Mart sex bias lawsuit will affect employment class actions
As reported in an earlier post, the U.S. Supreme Court justices listened last week to arguments in what could be the largest class-action lawsuit claiming discrimination in employment to ever be brought against a private employer. The justices will now have to decide...
Businesses will implement OSHA’s crowd control guidelines after Wal-Mart fine upheld
A judge recently upheld a fine issued to Wal-Mart by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for failing to put effective safety measures in place during the Thanksgiving weekend sale of 2008, which resulted in an employee being trampled to death. Wal-Mart...
New Jersey-based company alleges breach of contract
Edison, New Jersey-based Innovative Technology Distributors (IDT) filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey on March 10th against the new owner of their highest value-client. The suit alleges that the new parent company employed cut-throat...