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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...
Supreme Court to decide whether Wal-Mart class-action discrimination case can proceed
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. that will ask the court to stop an employee discrimination lawsuit from proceeding against the company on a class-action track. Several former and current female employees brought a sex...
Government downsizing impacting commercial real estate market
State, local and federal agencies are focused at the moment on downsizing and cutting costs. They may be laying off workers or simply moving to smaller spaces, but the downsizing is leading to government agencies seeking to lease a decreased total...
Class action lawsuit filed against Neflix accuses company of violating customer privacy
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Netflix by a former customer that accuses the company of violating business and consumer protection laws. The former customer filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court on behalf of himself and others. According to The...
Charlie Sheen does not want arbitrator to decide his case: Part 2
Charlie Sheen is currently embroiled in a fight with those who hired him and later fired him from the number one comedy on T.V., "Two and a Half Men." Sheen is suing Warner Bros. and the show's co-creator, Chuck Lorre, claiming wrongful termination. As discussed in...
Charlie Sheen does not want arbitrator to decide his case: Part 1
Charlie Sheen is currently suing his former employer, Warner Bros., because he says he was wrongfully fired from television's top comedy, "Two and a Half Men." Sheen was fired after publicly ranting against his employers and going through personal problems that...
Supreme Court to hear important copyright case
An interesting and important copyright case will soon come before the U.S. Supreme Court. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Esquire, the case will hold implications for artistic works created during the early to mid-1900s. The issue at hand concerns whether these...
Golden Globes lawsuit will be presented at trial
A lawsuit regarding the rights to the Golden Globes may go to trial this fall after a Judge refused to throw it out in a tentative ruling. The show's producer, Dick Clark Productions, sought to dismiss the breach of contract suit that was brought by the Hollywood...
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