A worker fired after telling HR he reported witnessing a male colleague pursue a female coworker cannot be pushed into arbitration, the court ruled in a case of first impression under a 2022 federal law.
Cook v. Stanley G. Alexander, Inc.
The Connecticut Supreme Court reversed a trial court’s grant of summary judgment in a dispute over a motor vehicle deficiency balance, holding that claims under the Uniform Commercial Code and state consumer finance law are not subject t...
Mutual Security Credit Union v. Hardy
The Connecticut Supreme Court reversed a trial court’s summary judgment in favor of Nutmeg State Financial Credit Union, holding that the one-year statute of limitations for penal statutes does not apply to damages claims under Article 9...
Lumpkin v. Nutmeg State Financial Credit Union
The Connecticut Supreme Court reversed a trial court’s summary judgment ruling in Connex Credit Union v. Madgic, holding that the three-year statute of limitations for tort actions, rather than the one-year period for penal stat...
Connex Credit Union v. Madgic
A former personal assistant says her boss stranded her in Tanzania after she refused his sexual advances, then fired her when she came home.
Ochab v. Ray
A New Jersey federal judge enforced a mandatory forum-selection clause in an independent contractor agreement, transferring a putative class action alleging wage-and-hour violations to Florida.
Alexander v. Quality Carriers, Inc. et al
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 th...
ALEXANDER WILSON, RONALD BISHOP, and GABLE SCHNEIDER, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES LOCAL 52, Defendant.
A Delaware federal judge wiped out the last surviving claim of a reactive targeted advertising patent after finding it covered nothing more than the age-old practice of tailoring a pitch to a particular customer.
B.E. Technology, L.L.C. v. Google LLC
The District of New Jersey has issued a claim construction order in a private patent dispute between Seasonal Specialties, LLC and National Christmas Products, Inc., resolving nine disputed terms in U.S. Patent Nos. 9,554,437 and 10,080,...
SEASONAL SPECIALTIES, LLC, Plaintiff, v. NATIONAL CHRISTMAS PRODUCTS, INC., Defendant.
A published Sixth Circuit ruling holds that an Oklahoma debt-collection law firm purposefully availed itself of Michigan by garnishing the wages of a Michigan employee, reversing a dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction.
Alexander Ross v. Robinson, Hoover & Fudge, PLLC
The Connecticut Supreme Court held that an employer's workers' compensation lien under General Statutes § 31-293 (a) extends to tort settlement proceeds attributable to a deceased worker's nonoccupational asbestos exposure, not just the...
Dodge v. Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
A federal judge in California denied Carl's Jr.'s motion for partial summary judgment, allowing a former crew member's claims of disability discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination to proceed to trial.
ADELAIDA MARTINEZ aka ADELA MARTINEZ, Plaintiff, v. CARL'S JR. RESTAURANTS LLC, A Delaware Limited Liability Company; CKE RESTAURANTS HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware Corporation; and DOES 1 to 25, inclusive Defendants.
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California denied Franklin Resources' motion to dismiss breach-of-fiduciary-duty claims, allowing plaintiffs to proceed with allegations that the company loaded the Franklin Templeton...
EDMUND ANG, et al., Plaintiffs, v. FRANKLIN RESOURCES, INC., et al., Defendants.
The D.C. Circuit vacated preliminary injunctions that had blocked the Federal Bureau of Prisons from transferring eighteen transgender women plaintiffs to men’s facilities, ruling that the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate a likelihood of...
Jane Doe v. Todd Blanche
A federal judge in Delaware granted Google summary judgment on patent-eligibility grounds, holding that the sole remaining claim in B.E. Technology's infringement suit is directed to an abstract idea and contains no inventive concept suf...
B.E. Technology, L.L.C. v. Google LLC