Lexology PRO | USA | 21 Mar 2023
California rules rideshare app drivers are independent contractors, Michigan repeals its right-to-work law, and exempt employees may be docked PTO for lack of productivity – plus other key updates.
Duane Morris LLP | USA | 21 Feb 2023
In 2022, corporate defendants aggressively asserted defenses based on personal jurisdiction to fracture collective actions in particular. In…
Crowell & Moring LLP | USA | 15 Aug 2022
On August 11, 2022, the Fourth Circuit affirmed a grant of judgment on the pleadings to Illinois Union Insurance Company on a buffet franchise’s…
Bowditch & Dewey LLP | USA | 15 Aug 2022
A California Superior Court judge recently preliminarily approved a $100 million settlement in connection with a class action brought on behalf of a…
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP | USA | 19 May 2022
On May 13, the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, issued a verdict following a bench trial that effectively struck down SB 826, a…
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP | USA | 9 May 2022
As previously discussed in our Sept. 10, 2020, client alert, in Wong v. Restoration Robotics, Inc., Case No. 18-CIV-02609 (Cal. Super. Ct. Sept. 1…
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP | USA | 11 Apr 2022
Despite a California Superior Court's recent ruling against a 2020 California law (AB 979), the move toward increasing board diversity is alive and…
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP | USA | 11 Apr 2022
On April 1, 2022, the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, granted a summary judgment motion that effectively struck down AB 979, a…
DLA Piper | USA | 29 Mar 2022
The decision is good news for most corporate defendants in California - especially mass tort defendants - who routinely have to fight to keep…
Jackson Lewis PC | USA | 28 Mar 2022
Absent class members in state-court class actions cannot pursue individual claims in federal court when the class has entered into a settlement…