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August 29, 2023
Trading card company Panini America Inc. is fighting against the transfer of its antitrust suit to a New York federal court, saying the arguments from competitor Fanatics Inc. to do so are misleading and fall flat, because Fanatics has consistently done business in Florida.
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August 29, 2023
The former CEO of health care equipment and gas supplier Lincare Inc. has agreed to be benched for 45 days past the scheduled Sept. 1 start date of his new job as CEO of a competitor and to pay up to $25,000 toward a review of his electronic devices, according to a stipulation.
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August 29, 2023
The legal industry experienced incremental gains for female lawyers in private practice in the U.S., according to Law360 Pulse's Women in Law Report, with women now representing half of all associates.
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August 29, 2023
The governing body of Spanish soccer has demanded the resignation of its own president, Luis Rubiales, who faces mounting backlash for kissing national team midfielder Jenni Hermoso on the lips in an incident Hermoso said was not consensual.
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August 28, 2023
Two former employees of the United States Specialty Sports Association are suing the Florida-based nonprofit, its CEO and other executives in federal court for allegedly running an illegal sports gambling operation, misusing the organization's funds for personal benefit, and illegally firing any whistleblowers.
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August 28, 2023
Delaware's Court of Chancery last week gave a failing grade to a "textbook" bad contract case, called time-out on a foot-dragging plaintiff, and got an unusual request from an investment firm to revisit the math on an appraisal decision.
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August 28, 2023
A former division vice president at an HVAC company allegedly threw his driver's license at a court reporter and has refused to comply with a settlement agreement he signed in a trade secrets fight with his former employer, the company has told the North Carolina Business Court.
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August 28, 2023
The Second Circuit on Monday upheld a sanctions order against a Massachusetts attorney and his law firm that stemmed from a district court's ruling that he had engaged in repeated pleading and discovery misconduct in his concussion lawsuits against World Wrestling Entertainment.
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August 28, 2023
A Georgia probate judge facing a trial next month on dozens of ethics charges has asked the state's judicial disciplinary panel to stop disciplinary authorities from using two witnesses' statements, social media posts that have not been independently authenticated, and a video where she uses the term "homeless-sexual."
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August 25, 2023
A Seventh Circuit panel revived Friday a proposed antitrust class action challenging McDonald's since-discontinued no-poach provisions in franchisee agreements that barred employees from working at other locations, finding the allegations are sufficient and the trial court prematurely decided the "complex" antitrust issues.
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August 25, 2023
The Third Circuit on Friday revived a False Claims Act suit alleging billing of Medicare for hospice care without valid diagnoses of terminal illness, finding that a New Jersey federal judge ascribed too much importance to a single piece of the U.S. Supreme Court's Escobar ruling.
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August 25, 2023
A Manhattan judge declined on Friday to dismiss claims by Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson that a former Beam Suntory Inc. sales contractor aided a scheme to embezzle $3 million from the rapper's champagne and cognac businesses.
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August 25, 2023
New Jersey acted appropriately when it designated as confidential nearly 11,000 documents it has produced in a former state health official's suit alleging he was fired for raising concerns about purportedly preferential COVID-19 testing, a state court judge ruled Friday.
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August 25, 2023
A Florida federal judge is refusing to pause an antitrust lawsuit by trading card company Panini against rival Fanatics while deciding whether to transfer the suit to New York federal court, saying that proceeding would not place an undue burden on Fanatics or force it to duplicate its work.
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August 25, 2023
An Illinois federal judge refused to toss a lawsuit a former executive brought against Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. accusing it of abruptly firing him so it could avoid paying nearly $6 million in deferred compensation benefits, saying he put forward enough detail to keep his case in court.
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August 24, 2023
Attorneys for international gas supplier Linde Inc. and its medical subsidiary Lincare Inc. on Thursday told a federal judge that Lincare's outgoing CEO, who is poised to join a rival, made "startling admissions" about destroying a hard drive and deleting data after being asked to preserve evidence in a lawsuit.
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August 24, 2023
A Texas appellate panel affirmed Thursday a $7.1 million verdict in favor of a nursing home assistant who was injured after a bariatric surgery patient fell on her leg, saying the home failed to lodge an appeal by the 30-day deadline due to an email overlooked by defense counsel.
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August 24, 2023
A Maryland federal judge has dismissed and ordered arbitration for a suit accusing Bank of America of misguiding small businesses on how to use the pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program, addressing a dispute over whether a binding agreement to arbitrate even "threshold issues of arbitrability" was in place.
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August 24, 2023
A chemical distribution company is accusing AIG of wrongfully refusing to cover its defense in a series of state court cases claiming injuries from exposure to harmful substances, according to the insurer's Thursday notice of removal to Washington federal court.
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August 24, 2023
The Second Circuit revived a former Marsh & McLennan employee's lawsuit seeking relief for what she called the professional services firm's failure to protect her personal information in a data breach, with a panel finding the employee adequately alleged a concrete and actual injury.
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August 24, 2023
The Second Circuit on Thursday sided with Tyco Fire Products LP in a worker's suit alleging that he lost a leg when an air tank sold by the company ruptured and caused an explosion, finding that his common law claims are preempted by federal law.
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August 24, 2023
The Seventh Circuit upheld a district court's ruling that an employer creates a litigable injury every time it collects fingerprint data in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act and held that a White Castle worker should be allowed to proceed with her case.
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August 24, 2023
The former general manager of a global shipping and transportation company is headed to trial again on allegations he stole trade secrets from his ex-employer when a competitor hired him, with a Detroit federal judge saying jurors have to decide the case.
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August 24, 2023
Littler Mendelson PC has hired the former director of the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations workers' compensation division, who most recently was working as a Deloitte consultant.
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August 23, 2023
Cruise line software company DeCurtis Holdings told a Delaware bankruptcy judge Wednesday that Carnival Corp. violated DeCurtis' Chapter 11 stay by hiring two ex-DeCurtis employees in violation of noncompete and nondisclosure agreements.