A federal judge in Manhattan sanctioned a claims-filing firm for misleading class members about including Square sales data in antitrust claims, ordering the company to notify clients and reopen filing windows.
A federal judge in Brooklyn largely refused to dismiss a putative class action by three film and television craftsmen who allege their union kept them out of full membership — and off pension benefits — for years after they had earned the right to join.
A federal magistrate judge has ordered Unilever United States, Inc. to publicly file most of its summary judgment and expert preclusion filings in a personal injury lawsuit brought by Zebin Hossain, while granting the company's request to keep specific...
A federal magistrate judge in the Eastern District of New York conditionally certified an FLSA collective action brought by chimney technicians and helpers who say their employer paid flat weekly salaries while requiring them to work up to 90 hours a week...
A federal judge in the Eastern District of New York granted a motion to amend a jury verdict to resolve an inconsistency between disability discrimination findings under state and federal law, while significantly reducing excessive punitive damages in a...
The Eastern District of New York has denied a request by the New York State Nurses Association for emergency injunctive relief against the Brooklyn Hospital Center, ruling that the union failed to demonstrate a sufficient likelihood of subject matter...
Judge Nusrat J. Choudhury denied ProHEALTH Care Associates LLP’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff Kristine Chevannes’s retaliation claims under Title VII and the New York State Human Rights Law, finding sufficient evidence of pretext regarding her...
A federal magistrate judge in Brooklyn allowed a fired Catholic teacher to bolster her religious-accommodation lawsuit against the New York City Department of Education with deposition testimony that the agency denied every single religious exemption...
A federal judge conditionally ordered remittitur of up to $16,820 in overtime damages won by four landscaping workers whose trial testimony about 2019 employment contradicted or exceeded what their complaint alleged.