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February 15, 2024
A former DraftKings Inc. executive has asked a Massachusetts federal court to clarify the type of work he can perform for competitor Fanatics Inc. while the legal fight with his previous employer plays out, warning that the court's current order is too restrictive.
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February 15, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court receives thousands of petitions for review each term, but only a few make the news. Here, Law360 looks at four petitions filed in the past three weeks that you might've missed, including questions over how courts should analyze class certification bids and regulations restricting specific speech for content-neutral reasons, whether plaintiffs must reestablish standing after amending lawsuits, and what constitutes fraud.
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February 15, 2024
A credit repair services company being sued by a group of fired sales agents has called on a Michigan federal court to sanction them, saying their claim of not knowing if they had signed contracts with arbitration terms was an attempt to wriggle out of arbitration.
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February 14, 2024
A California federal judge on Wednesday kept alive key parts of a False Claims Act lawsuit brought by a former Kaiser Permanente compliance officer-turned-whistleblower alleging the large healthcare group schemed to defraud the federal government by inflating its Medicare capitation rates.
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February 14, 2024
A Chancery Court judge "got it backwards" when he concluded that 19 former executives of SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. weren't entitled to vesting rights in connection with a 2017 stock sale, because he read the executives' separation and equity agreements out of order, an attorney for the executives told Delaware's Supreme Court on Wednesday.
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February 14, 2024
A Progressive unit asked a North Carolina federal court Wednesday to grant it a win in its attempt to get out of providing coverage for an UberEats driver who was killed in a car crash, asserting that its policy for Uber doesn't cover injuries caused by uninsured or underinsured motorists.
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February 14, 2024
Gen Digital Inc. urged a D.C. federal judge Tuesday to reduce the $53 million judgment he recently increased from an initial $1.6 million award in a whistleblower False Claims Act case, saying he wrongly included some sales in his calculations.
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February 13, 2024
A Washington man's evidence that his employer knew of the risk of getting mesothelioma from asbestos exposure at an aerospace company's plant didn't demonstrate the company had "actual knowledge" he was going to be injured, a state appellate panel has ruled.
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February 13, 2024
Of the three COVID-19 oversight bodies responsible for handling complaints from contractor and grantee whistleblowers, only one believes that whistleblowers are clearly protected from retaliation under the law, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a report Tuesday.
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February 13, 2024
An insurer said it does not owe coverage to two security service companies facing several lawsuits filed by grocery store customers who claim they were battered by security guards, telling a California federal court that the companies owe it reimbursement because their policies don't cover bodily injuries.
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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.