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Employee wrongfully terminated for complaining about fraud

  • Fenwick & West LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 8 2008

In Casella v. SouthWest Dealer Services, Inc., a California court of appeal affirmed a jury verdict for wrongful termination in violation of public policy against a company selling extended warranties

Federal Court permits corporate issue ads near an election

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 19 2007

By a 2-1 vote in an opinion written by the highly respected Judge Sentelle, a special three-judge district court of the US District Court for the of Columbia held that corporations have a first Amendment right to fund “true issue ads” during elections, even though they mention candidates and thus fall within the definition of “electioneering communications” found in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) of 2002

Kentucky v. Davis (warning: this case may have side effects)

  • Bricker & Eckler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 21 2008

On November 5, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Kentucky v. Davis

Indiana Supreme Court protects students

  • Faegre Baker Daniels
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 28 2008

On April 1, 2008, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled that a professor could not sue two students who filed harassment complaints against him with their university

Philippines v. Pimentel: Supreme Court rules that absence of foreign sovereign parties with competing claims in non-US proceedings was fatal to US action

  • White & Case LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 23 2008

In Republic of Philippines v. Pimentel, the US Supreme Court held that a case involving ownership of certain assets had to be dismissed under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19 when parties that were necessary to the case were beyond the jurisdiction of US courts due to sovereign immunity and the assets in question were the subject of non-US litigation by those sovereign parties

City's pre-employment drug testing unconstitutional

  • Fenwick & West LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 10 2008

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held in Lanier v. City of Woodburn that the City of Woodburn could not rescind an offer of employment to Janet Lanier because she declined to be tested under the City's pre-employment drug and alcohol screening policy

Pay up government! “Bad faith” qui tam intervention costs United States

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 9 2007

"Because of its unlimited power, the government, of all litigants, should pursue actions carefully and without passion or prejudice."

Religious institutions update: January 2013

  • Holland & Knight LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 4 2013

In 2000, Congress enacted the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, 42 U.S.C. 2000cc et seq. (RLUIPA), in recognition that "new, small, or

Government contractor immunity under 28 U.S.C. 1498

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 29 2007

In a decision addressing government contractor immunity, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that a patent infringement case against a government contractor in the district court was barred by 28 U.S.C. 1498

In re Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn Borough president, petitioner-respondent, v Gregory Serio, superintendent of the State of New York Insurance Department, et al

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 6 2007

Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Doris Ling-Cohan, J.), entered January 25, 2006, which granted the article 78 petition to the extent of annulling the determinations of respondent Superintendent of the Insurance Department, dated August 9 and October 18, 2004, denying petitioner's appeals of the denial of his Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests, and directing respondent to comply with such requests, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, respondent's determinations reinstated and confirmed, the petition denied and the proceeding dismissed

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