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February 13, 2024
A former partner in an insurance brokerage who alleges the company gave him a lowball offer to buy back his shares after he was fired should have brought his complaint in Delaware, a North Carolina Business Court judge has ruled in granting the brokerage's motion to dismiss.
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February 13, 2024
Fluor Corp. pressed the South Carolina federal court to knock out a False Claims Act suit by former military officers, arguing that the law supporting the entire case unconstitutionally vests private citizens with government powers.
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February 13, 2024
Lawyers for a former DraftKings Inc. executive who recently defected to rival Fanatics are seeking more than $310,000 in attorney fees, arguing the amount is reasonable and would cover their work for two "objectively unreasonable" removals of the case to federal court by DraftKings, behavior they called "disturbing litigation conduct."
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February 13, 2024
DeCotiis FitzPatrick Cole & Giblin LLP has picked up a labor and employment attorney with over 20 years of experience and additional background in litigation, corporate law and commercial real estate from Guaglardi & Meliti LLP.
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February 13, 2024
A former executive at McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP, who is accused with her husband of stealing over $3 million from the firm, doubled down on her discovery request this week for corporate credit card statements from several firm leaders, rejecting the argument that their credit card use is not comparable to hers.
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February 13, 2024
A New York federal judge ordered two former Cushman & Wakefield brokers facing a trade secrets suit to return the brokerage's confidential information, stop soliciting its employees and clients and to stop using its referral sources.
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February 13, 2024
A North Carolina nursing home has stopped paying a healthcare staffing company for nurses it provided as part of a service contract, according to a federal lawsuit outlining more than $1 million in unpaid invoices.
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February 12, 2024
A former Morris James LLP paralegal on Monday urged Delaware's highest court to let him collect a year's worth of unemployment benefits, arguing a lower court erred in finding that a payment he received when leaving the firm was severance pay rather than compensation for a whistleblower claim.
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February 12, 2024
A doctor who says he faced retaliation from companies he had contracted with after objecting to violations of the False Claims Act must take his newest allegations to arbitration, a Florida federal judge ruled Monday, rejecting the physician's argument that one of the defendants had waived its arbitration rights.
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February 12, 2024
Apple has reached an agreement potentially resolving its claims that startup chipmaker Rivos poached engineers and directed them to steal the tech giant's trade secrets, telling a California federal judge the deal would allow Apple to conduct a forensic examination of Rivos' systems.
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February 12, 2024
JetBlue Airways Corp. should be held in contempt of court and sanctioned for failing to turn over documents in a former flight attendant's lawsuit over allegedly toxic fumes that she inhaled on the job, she and her husband have told a Connecticut federal court in a motion to force the airline's compliance with a subpoena.
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February 12, 2024
San Francisco-founded Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP has opened an office in Ventura County, California — its 10th physical presence in the Golden State and its 78th locale overall, the firm said Monday.
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February 12, 2024
A former Melick & Porter LLP partner claimed in a Massachusetts state court lawsuit that he was pushed out of the firm by another partner who undermined him and stole clients.
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February 12, 2024
A Florida attorney convicted of conspiring to defraud a U.S. coronavirus pandemic relief program has asked a Georgia federal judge to vacate the jury's guilty verdict and either acquit her or order a new trial, arguing the government violated her due process rights by not submitting sufficient evidence to prove her guilt.
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February 09, 2024
A former Terminix worker urged the Ninth Circuit on Friday to vacate an order tossing his nonindividual wage claims while sending his individual California Private Attorneys General Act claims to arbitration, arguing he has standing to bring nonindividual claims under the California Supreme Court's decision in Adolph v. Uber Technologies.
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February 09, 2024
Old Dominion Freight is only raising a timing argument to dodge claims it unlawfully scans and stores employees' fingerprints without their consent because "it is upset," a group of workers told an Illinois federal judge Friday.
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February 09, 2024
Therapy app company SonderMind Inc. has filed a lawsuit in Denver state court alleging a former chief medical officer is violating a non-compete clause he signed by taking an identical role at rival company Rula Health.
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February 09, 2024
An Alabama federal court has ruled a former engineer for CSX Transportation Inc. can pursue his negligence claims against the railroad company, saying a layperson can understand how being close to a loud train horn could cause hearing loss without an expert's explanation.
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February 09, 2024
Two Nebraska-based technology companies say a former Connecticut salesman used the "unauthorized" artificial intelligence program Otter to record meetings, forwarded more than 200 confidential messages to his personal email address and made off with trade secrets for accounts worth $12 million after he was fired for cause on Feb. 1.
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February 09, 2024
A New Jersey state judge on Friday declined to remove McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP's former chief financial officer from a suit accusing him and his wife of stealing more than $3 million, noting that the heightened ethical duty imposed on law firms justifies keeping the claims alive.
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February 09, 2024
In this week's Off The Bench, a Tennessee judge sends mixed signals to the NCAA in the fight over its NIL recruiting ban, Dartmouth's basketball players tally a win for college athletes' unionization efforts, and DraftKings tries to stop rival Fanatics from benefiting from a former executive who switched sides. If you were on the sidelines over the past week, Law360 is here to clue you in on the biggest sports and betting stories that had our readers talking.
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February 08, 2024
First Citizens Bank has beefed up allegations that HSBC Holdings stole confidential information and poached employees from the failed Silicon Valley Bank, filing an amended complaint Wednesday in California federal court, claiming HSBC's top executives and chief legal officer knew of the alleged poaching conspiracy.
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February 08, 2024
Holding that a manager of a flavoring and aromas biotech company cannot tortiously interfere with a contract between the company and its former CEO, a Connecticut state court has clipped a counterclaim from a lawsuit that Oamic Ingredients LLC is pursuing against its ex-chief executive.
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February 08, 2024
The long-running trial of a Georgia probate judge accused of violating the state's Code of Judicial Conduct on social media and jailing a woman seeking to amend her marriage record wrapped Thursday, with the head of the state's judicial watchdog arguing she should be removed from the bench.
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February 08, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday trimmed a breach-of-contract claim from a biotech executive's lawsuit, but preserved the bulk of the complaint, which accuses CSL Behring of firing him to avoid having to pay him an incentive of up to $3 million for staying with CSL following an acquisition.