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March 06, 2024
A Third Circuit panel on Wednesday seemed exasperated with ExxonMobil's refusal to reinstate two fired whistleblowers despite an Occupational Safety and Health Administration order to do so, repeatedly grilling the energy company's counsel to come up with a good reason for flouting the directive.
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March 06, 2024
Seton Hall University's ex-president has filed an amended whistleblower complaint against the school that centers on alleged misconduct by its former board chair, prominent criminal defense attorney Kevin Marino of Marino Tortorella & Boyle PC, contending that the university launched a fake investigation into accusations of sexual harassment.
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March 05, 2024
The attorney representing a KBR Inc. whistleblower countered the federal government's assertion that his client should not benefit from a $13.7 million settlement stemming from kickback allegations, telling the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday to look at the deal's terms.
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March 05, 2024
The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday ruled that tech companies facing suit for using cobalt mined with child labor didn't share in a "venture" with the companies responsible for extracting the metal, upholding a district court decision to dismiss the suit.
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March 05, 2024
In a bid to skirt depositions by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and several high-ranking staffers, the Office of the Attorney General has argued that whistleblowers who accused Paxton of firing them for reporting alleged misconduct are not entitled to conduct more investigation because he has already agreed not to contest the allegations.
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March 04, 2024
Puerto Rico's fiscal oversight board told a federal judge on Monday that it had the only plan to save the island's troubled electric utility, while bondholders claimed the board had created the plan specifically to shortchange them.
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March 04, 2024
A dental health insurer asked a Washington federal judge on Monday to toss its trade secret claims against an ex-executive without leeway for her to request legal fees, arguing that she can't be considered a winning party because she handed over a company laptop after being hit with the suit.
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March 04, 2024
Regal Cinemas can't ditch a lawsuit alleging the movie theater chain violated a worker's rights under Illinois' biometric privacy law by collecting fingerprint scans without informed consent, an Illinois federal judge ruled Friday, rejecting the company's argument the plaintiff needed to show it was negligent, recklessness or intentional in its data collection.
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March 04, 2024
Legal case acquisition marketing company Tort Experts LLC has sued a former senior vice president of marketing in Colorado federal court for allegedly sharing screenshots of the company's internal systems, pricing and margins with competitors in violation of an employment agreement and federal law.
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March 04, 2024
A Swedish music producer's takeover, a proposed award payable in Tesla shares, Truth Social stock squabbles, and an unusually blunt slap-down from the bench added up to an especially colorful week in Delaware's famous court of equity. On top of that came new cases about alleged power struggles, board entrenchment, consumer schemes and merger disputes.
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March 04, 2024
A former assistant U.S. Trade representative known for his work promoting international labor rights is joining Kelley Drye & Warren LLP.
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March 04, 2024
Vedder Price PC announced Monday the hiring of a former shareholder at Polsinelli PC for its executive compensation and employee benefits group.
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March 01, 2024
An Illinois appellate panel held Friday that an exception to attorney-client privilege for criminal or fraudulent conduct does not extend to alleged defamation by attorneys, reversing a trial court that applied it to a Chicago attorney and law firm facing a defamation suit from the former senior pastor of an Illinois megachurch.
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March 01, 2024
An ex-Raytheon engineer pressed the full Fifth Circuit to reconsider a panel decision blocking claims that he was fired for reporting concerns with a naval system, saying the panel wrongly expanded a national security court review bar to government contractors.
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March 01, 2024
A New Jersey state judge on Friday refused to toss an attorney's claims that she's entitled to a nearly $425,000 cut of a foreclosure case settlement from when she served as an of counsel for Katz & Dougherty LLC, ruling that the firm's dismissal motion targeting an alleged "made-up" contract was premature.
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March 01, 2024
Whistleblowers accusing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton of firing them for reporting suspected wrongdoing urged the state Supreme Court to reject his office's attempt to "derail litigation unilaterally" and avoid deposition in their retaliation lawsuit.
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March 01, 2024
A Washington, D.C., appeals court upheld the termination of a D.C. Office of Administrative Hearings judge who was fired nearly a decade ago amid scrutiny for a range of ethics violations that included steering a $43,000 city contract to the husband of the agency's general counsel.
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February 29, 2024
Providing workers' compensation insurance to its subcontractors shielded ExxonMobil Corp. from personal injury lawsuits brought by workers hurt in a fire at one of its petrochemical plants, a Texas appellate court said Thursday, overriding a trial court ruling against the oil giant.
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February 29, 2024
Talent agency Verve's former CEO William Weinstein sued his fellow co-founders in California state court Thursday, alleging they fired him in bad faith for the "bogus" cause to cut him out of his equity shares and leaked his termination to the press in violation of the confidentiality provisions of their operating agreement.
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February 29, 2024
A former flight attendant for JetBlue Airways Corp. and her husband have dropped a legal battle that they launched Feb. 9 in Connecticut to force the airline to turn over subpoenaed documents in an underlying toxic tort case, but the federal court fight is set to continue next door.
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February 29, 2024
A Denver debt collection law firm has accused a former senior associate of performing little to no meaningful work during a brief one-year tenure at the outfit while also pursuing a partnership role at another firm.
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February 29, 2024
A former Wood Smith Henning & Berman LLP attorney has made the move to Munck Wilson Mandala LLP in Los Angeles, bringing with her a history of working on intellectual property litigation and other commercial matters.
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February 29, 2024
A former municipal prosecutor was not a city employee but a professional service provider, a New Jersey appellate panel held Thursday, stripping him of seven years of pension participation and credits.
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February 29, 2024
A defense contractor accused a former executive of taking confidential business information and export-controlled data on the body armor it supplies to the U.S. military and local and state law enforcement to a rival, a foreign-owned business.
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February 29, 2024
A South Dakota federal judge won't let either a conductor or Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern RR Inc. notch early wins in a suit against the railroad over a 2019 derailment, saying there are factual questions about whether the railroad knew or should have known about the conditions on the track before the accident.