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Fractured Ohio Supreme Court sidesteps pregnancy discrimination question

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 31 2009

When the Ohio Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeal in Allen v. TotesIsotoner, it was widely expected that the Court would address the question of whether Ohio's pregnancy discrimination laws required employers to allow a woman who is breastfeeding to take unscheduled lactation breaks

Ohio Supreme Court agrees to hear maternity leave case

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 3 2009

I wanted to post a follow up to my earlier post - Ohio Fifth District Court of Appeals Decision Requires That Employers Provide a Reasonable Period of Time for Unpaid Maternity Leave Regardless of Length of Service or Leave Policy

Securities class actions and derivative litigation: what issues should keep directors and officers awake at night?

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 31 2007

A review of recent trends in securities class actions and related derivative litigation demonstrates that directors and officers of publicly traded corporations may want to consider carefully reviewing mechanisms to protect themselves from liability in those cases

After Leegin: will resale price maintenance revert back to the per se rule?

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 22 2009

The Supreme Court's 2007 decision in Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc. provided that agreements requiring retailers to adhere to a manufacturer's minimum resale prices are to be evaluated under the rule-of-reason instead of the previously applied per se rule, which made them unlawful on their face

What do reality television shows and employment law have in common?

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 29 2009

Class actions, of course

Supreme Court significantly tightens requirements for pleading unlawful agreements and conspiracies in antitrust and other cases

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 8 2007

It is not often that a Supreme Court decision is heralded by The Wall Street Journal as a “score... for consumers and capitalists against self-styled ‘consumer advocates’ and their tort funders.”

Title VII's anti-retaliation provisions apply to statements made during internal investigations

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 30 2009

Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court released an opinion in Crawford v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee

The Roth case and export controls: the government sends a message to the academic research industry

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 19 2009

A 72-year-old professor is awaiting sentencing later this month after being convicted of illegal transmitting military technical data without a license from the Department of State to foreign students in the United States

Court approves prosecution where government hid criminal investigation to get evidence from defendant in civil investigation

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 18 2008

An SEC investigation is supposedly civil in nature, but a new federal appellate court decision says the government can secretly use an SEC investigation as a de facto criminal investigation if the SEC uses no deception and makes no affirmative misrepresentations that an investigation is exclusively civil in nature

Mark Cuban insider trading case

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 28 2009

On Tuesday Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban had his first hearing in an insider trading case brought by the SEC