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As we recently wrote here, just hours before California’s controversial AB 5 went into effect, a federal court in San Diego issued a temporary restraining order (“TRO”) to enjoin enforcement of the independent contractor statute as to approximately...By: Epstein Becker & Green

Most professional liability polices include some form of a “related claims” provision that generally provides where two or more claims or wrongful acts are causally or logically related, they will be deemed to constitute a single claim. Importantly,...By: Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP

Cacho v. Eurostar, Inc., 2019 WL 7180349 (Cal. Ct. App. 2019) - David Cacho and Regina Silva asserted class claims against their former employer (Eurostar), alleging Eurostar violated California wage and hour laws by failing to provide employees...By: Proskauer - California Employment Law

Imagine if Mark Zuckerberg hatched the idea for Facebook, yet all he did was talk about the site instead of developing. Imagine if Jeff Bezos talked for a year or two about selling books on the Internet instead of going through developing the actual...By: Ary Rosenbaum

By Executive Decree No. 424 of December 31, 2019, the Executive Branch approved the increase in minimum hourly wage rates, according to economic activity, occupation and company size, throughout the Panamanian national territory. The Executive Decree...By: Dentons

The City of Pittsburgh has announced that its Paid Sick Days Act (the “Act”) will become effective on March 15, 2020. This follows a lengthy court challenge that delayed enforcement of the ordinance. A decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in...By: Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP

Rall v. Tribune 365, LLC, 2019 WL 6887261 (Cal. Ct. App. 2019) - Frederick Theodore Rall III, a political cartoonist and blogger, sued the Los Angeles Times after it published a “note to readers” and (later) a more detailed report questioning the...By: Proskauer - California Employment Law

In Retirement Plans Committee of IBM v. Jander, the Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion, clarified the its opinion in Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer, 573 U.S. 409 (2014), which set forth the duties that administrators of Employee Stock...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

In late December, Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed into law the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act, the most sweeping retirement legislation since the Pension Protection Act of 2006. The Act, whose...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

Lawyers love to follow the intricacies of litigation - we read the court decisions and follow matters through trials like some follow the latest happenings in their favorite TV drama. CRST Van Expedited v. EEOC - From the start, the case has been...By: Davis Brown Law Firm