June 11, 2019
The University of Southern California has urged a federal judge not to allow workers to add 16 individual defendants to their proposed class action accusing the school of mismanaging their retirement savings, arguing that the workers waited too long to try to update their case.
October 16, 2018
The University of Southern California intends to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether employers can force workers who collectively sue over benefit plan mismanagement to resolve their claims through individual arbitration.
May 18, 2018
The University of Southern California and workers who brought a $150 million proposed class action claiming the school mismanaged their retirement savings recently squared off before the Ninth Circuit, crossing swords before a three-judge panel over whether the plan participants' claims should be kicked from federal court into arbitration. Here, Law360 breaks down the oral arguments from the closely watched case.
May 14, 2018
A California federal judge has frozen a $150 million proposed class action alleging the University of Southern California mismanaged retirement funds, saying that forging ahead when the Ninth Circuit is poised to decide whether to send the workers' claims to arbitration would be "illogical and potentially harmful."
April 17, 2018
The University of Southern California on Monday asked a California federal judge to stay proceedings in a $150 million putative class action alleging retirement plan mismanagement while the Ninth Circuit decides whether USC can force workers to resolve their claims individually through arbitration.