Lawsuits and Litigation
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Tesla board will return more than $900M in shareholder settlement
A Delaware court approved the deal to settle a complaint accusing the automaker’s directors of overpaying themselves for several years.
By Justin Bachman • Jan. 9, 2025 -
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Hyatt to pay $2.25M to settle ‘Housekeepers’ Bill of Rights’ lawsuit
The suit, filed by workers at Hyatt Regency Long Beach, was the first of its kind under one of several city-level regulations intended to improve working conditions for hotel housekeepers.
By Noelle Mateer • Jan. 9, 2025 -
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Oil companies agree to record FTC settlement in ‘gun-jumping’ lawsuit
The agency accused two oil producers of taking over management duties of a company they’d agreed to buy during the required U.S. review period for merger deals.
By Justin Bachman • Jan. 8, 2025 -
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Publix allegedly fired a pregnant employee to avoid giving her leave for childbirth
A former employee in Florida sued the supermarket chain for allegedly violating the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, along with several other laws.
By Laurel Kalser • Jan. 6, 2025 -
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FCC net neutrality rule among first to fall in Loper Bright’s aftermath
No longer bound by deference to regulators, a Sixth Circuit panel ruled that the Biden administration cannot enforce stricter regulation policy on internet service providers.
By Justin Bachman • Jan. 3, 2025 -
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Keep antitrust remedy focused on search, Google says in stab at DOJ
The agency’s call for the tech giant to divest Chrome because of its search dominance goes beyond the competition issues that were raised in the high-profile monopoly case, the company says.
By Robert Freedman • Jan. 2, 2025 -
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CVS dispensed opioid drugs unlawfully in profit push, US suit alleges
The pharmacy chain pressed staff to churn out prescriptions, ignoring red flags amid the U.S. opioid epidemic, the DOJ claims. CVS decried the suit’s “false narrative.”
By Justin Bachman • Dec. 19, 2024 -
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SCOTUS sends NLRB ‘successor bar’ rule case back for post-Chevron analysis
The high court said an appeals court would need to consider what effect the reversal of federal agency deference standards had on a Puerto Rico hospital’s labor dispute.
By Ryan Golden • Dec. 18, 2024 -
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BD to pay $175M to settle charges of misleading investors on Alaris pump
BD will pay a civil penalty to resolve charges it misled investors about risks associated with sales of its Alaris infusion pump, the Securities and Exchange Commission said.
By Elise Reuter • Dec. 17, 2024 -
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Former OpenAI training employee dead in apparent suicide
The ChatGPT researcher had publicly expressed concerns about fair use for AI model training and might have played a witness role in copyright lawsuit.
By Justin Bachman • Dec. 16, 2024 -
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Trademark tussle raises corporate autonomy questions
The Supreme Court is being asked to decide if a $43-million infringement award under the Lanham Act wrongly included the profits of non-party corporate affiliates.
By David Weisenfeld • Dec. 13, 2024 -
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OpinionHandling linked content while courts and agencies differ over standards
Given the lack of agreement on how dynamic content should be treated in discovery and for compliance purposes, legal teams should develop workflows for preserving and managing the content internally.
By Craig Hendley • Dec. 13, 2024 -
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SEC charges former Comtech CEO with insider trading
The charges against Ken Peterman are just the latest initiative by what, in some respects, has been the most aggressive SEC enforcement division on record.
By Jim Tyson • Dec. 12, 2024 -
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Appeals court rejects Nasdaq effort to boost director diversity
The Fifth Circuit found that the Securities Exchange Act doesn’t allow a stock exchange to require listed companies to report directors’ race and gender.
By Justin Bachman • Dec. 12, 2024 -
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Justices could scale back environmental law in NEPA case
The National Environmental Policy Act has become an important tool for obstruction by certain groups, one veteran appellate advocate told Legal Dive.
By David Weisenfeld • Dec. 12, 2024 -
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FTC orders a building services contractor to end no-hire agreement
The company’s policy prevented workers from negotiating better wages, benefits and working conditions, the FTC said.
By Carolyn Crist • Dec. 10, 2024 -
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CFPB-Google battle likely to stretch into next administration
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says Google’s payment unit failed to explain why it was denying customer requests for refunds. Google told the agency to back off in a lawsuit.
By Patrick Cooley • Dec. 10, 2024 -
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SCOTUS weighs fraud claim involving racial preferences
Lying during a bid process to evade a government agency’s disadvantaged business enterprise program did not merit a fraud conviction, an attorney for the defendants told the justices.
By David Weisenfeld • Dec. 10, 2024 -
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Morgan Stanley to pay $15M over theft by now-former employees
The bank failed to detect hundreds of instances when brokers misappropriated client funds through unauthorized Automated Clearing House transfers, the SEC said.
By Dan Ennis • Dec. 10, 2024 -
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Lack of oversight called legitimate reason to doom Max 737 Boeing-DOJ plea deal
The judge’s focus on DEI in rejecting the agreement is attention-grabbing but it’s the absence of court enforcement that’s the problem, a legal scholar says.
By Robert Freedman • Dec. 6, 2024 -
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Judge nixes post-trial ‘ratification’ of Elon Musk’s record Tesla pay package
There’s no basis for creating new evidence by holding a shareholder vote after the case has gone to trial, Delaware Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick said in rejecting the pay package for a second time.
By Robert Freedman • Dec. 3, 2024 -
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DOL appeals Texas judge’s overtime rule decision
Attorneys who previously spoke to HR Dive said the rule is likely dead, in part because the 5th Circuit might not take a favorable view of the rule’s differences from past updates.
By Ryan Golden • Dec. 2, 2024 -
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Logo creator seeks copyright in new infringement case against Jets
A former employee says the New York football team and the NFL are using his design without permission and obtained the trademark fraudulently.
By Robert Freedman • Dec. 2, 2024 -
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Another lawyer in hot water for citing fake GenAI cases
The plaintiff’s attorney in a wrongful termination case faces sanctions for including nonexistent cases and fake quotations in a Texas federal court filing.
By Robert Freedman • Nov. 27, 2024 -
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Jury delivers $2.17M judgment against SkyWest Airlines for sex discrimination
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which filed the lawsuit, said the award is the largest it has ever obtained in the Northern District of Texas.
By Emilie Shumway • Nov. 26, 2024
