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Seyfarth Shaw LLP | USA | 5 Aug 2018
In a lawsuit brought by a plaintiff class action firm alleging that objectors to class action settlements violated both RICO and Illinois state law by…
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Baker McKenzie | USA | 22 Nov 2017
Plaintiff Dandong Old North-East Agriculture & Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd. ("Dandong") sued its former executive, Gary Ming Hu, his ex-wife Yuhua Wang…
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Jackson Lewis PC | USA | 21 Nov 2017
Finding not a “scintilla” of evidence to support claims of minimum wage violations, a New York federal district court in Yu Sen Chen et al v. MG…
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Squire Patton Boggs | USA | 26 Oct 2017
In Stein v. hhgregg, a split panel of the Sixth Circuit held that a written policy would trump the company’s actual practices. hhGregg employs retail…
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Epstein Becker Green | USA | 19 Oct 2017
In many industries, sales are subject to ebbs and flows. Sometimes the fish are biting; sometimes they aren't. A common device that employers with…
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Holland & Knight LLP | USA | 15 Jul 2016
Judge Chang held that the Court did not have jurisdiction over Plaintiff’s claims for return of monies seized from his PayPal account based upon a…
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McDermott Will & Emery | USA | 28 Jun 2016
On May 11, 2016, the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) officially became law, creating for the first time a federal private civil cause of…
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McDermott Will & Emery | USA | 28 Jun 2016
Addressing waiver of a contractual forum selection clause, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a lower court's enforcement of the…
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Cozen O'Connor | USA | 23 Jun 2016
On May 11, 2016, President Barack Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (the “DTSA”), which provides a federal civil cause of action to…
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Banner Witcoff | USA | 13 May 2016
Yesterday, President Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), enacting a federal trade secrets law. Much of the law existed under the…