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California Supreme Court allows See’s Candy time rounding decision to stand

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 4 2013

Earlier last month, the California Supreme Court denied petitions to review and depublish the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District’s

Supreme Court reaffirms enforceability of arbitration agreement in noncompetition dispute

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 11 2012

In a succinct opinion issued on November 26, 2012, the Supreme Court delivered a stern warning to state courts that fail to enforce arbitration clauses accompanying noncompetition agreements

Federal court decisions permit two Dodd-Frank whistleblower cases to proceed

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 11 2012

Two federal district courts recently issued decisions adopting a broad interpretation of the anti-retaliation provision of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”) and allowed Dodd-Frank whistleblower claims to proceed past motions to dismiss

The NLRB finds that social media policy violates the National Labor Relations Act

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 25 2012

In its first ruling on an employer’s social media policy, the National Labor Relations Board found that Costco Wholesale Corporation’s social media policy in its employee handbook violated the National Labor Relations Act

U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether class action plaintiffs can use stipulations to avoid jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 25 2012

The United States Supreme Court recently granted certiorari to review whether class action plaintiffs can avoid federal court jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act (“CAFA”) by stipulating that their damages do not exceed the federal jurisdictional prerequisite

Deadline fast approaching employers must provide New York Wage Theft Prevention Act notices to all New York employees by February 1, 2012

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 25 2012

Effective April 9, 2011, the New York Wage Theft Prevention Act requires that, each year between January 1 and February 1, all private sector employers provide every employee who works in New York (including those exempt from overtime) with written notice of: the employee's regular rate of pay

New ARB decision erodes employer-friendly precedents under SOX

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 8 2011

On May 25, 2011, an en banc panel of the Obama administration's newly appointed Administrative Review Board ("ARB") reversed an Administrative Law Judge's ("ALJ's") decision dismissing the SOX complaints of two drug testing company employees