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Financial services sector employers take heed: wage and hour class action against BOFA goes nationwide

  • Epstein Becker Green
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  • USA
  • -
  • June 25 2010

On June 4, 2010, lawyers for current and former Bank of America branch and call center employees filed a 44-page complaint in a Kansas City, Kansas, federal court seeking to consolidate a dozen wage and hour lawsuits filed in states across the U.S. into a nationwide class action

TARP’s golden parachute prohibition not sufficient to vacate arbitrator’s severance award to former executive

  • Chadbourne & Parke LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • December 1 2011

A Pennsylvania federal district court has dismissed a petition by Royal Bank America (“Royal Bank”) to vacate an arbitration award that allegedly awarded its former executive a “golden parachute” payment in violation of in the Troubled Assets Relief Program (“TARP”

Court rejects challenge to DOL's interpretation that mortgage loan officers are non-exempt

  • Franczek Radelet PC
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  • USA
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  • June 11 2012

I wanted to give our readers a quick update on the status of mortgage loan officers

Top 10 whistleblower decisions of 2012

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 24 2013

Plaintiff filed a lawsuit under the anti-retaliation provision of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (“Dodd-Frank”

Illinois prohibits use of credit information in employment decisions with limited exceptions: Illinois joins Oregon, Washington & Hawaii in restricting use of credit information

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • August 11 2010

Recognizing the increasing impact of the economic downturn on employees' credit histories, Illinois has become the most recent state to restrict employers from using credit information in employment decisions

FDIC defeats age discrimination claims

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • August 16 2010

On August 13th, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment for the FDIC in an age discrimination case brought by a group of former FDIC employees

Jury hands total victory to quicken loans in mortgage loan officer overtime case

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 18 2011

A Detroit jury has handed a major win to the defendant employer in an overtime case brought on behalf of mortgage loan officers, rejecting the plaintiffs' argument that they were sales employees with limited decision-making authority

US political law compliance and risk management

  • Dentons
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 3 2012

The influence of Super PACs on the Republican presidential primary has been well-documented

Caution: recent case highlights importance of broad, early preservation efforts

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 6 2013

A company may discard data, documents or records in the ordinary course of its business. But routine destruction of information that may be relevant

Former bank auditor's SOX retaliation suit no bar to additional Washington law wrongful discharge claim

  • Jackson Lewis LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 4 2013

A former internal auditor of a bank may bring a claim for state law wrongful discharge in violation of public policy despite her maintenance of a