RLB Contracting, US Army Corps Settle Texas Dredging Dispute
RLB Contracting Inc. and the US Army Corps of Engineers have resolved their dispute after the company said it was owed more than $1 million for the agency’s breach of their maintenance dredging ...
H-1B Visa Fraud Suit Won't Be Reinstated, Second Circuit Says
Three whistleblowers couldn’t revive False Claims Act allegations that HCL Technologies Ltd. and HCL America Inc. underpaid taxes to the US government after securing visas for workers from India, the ...
Staffing Agency Employees Advance Suit Over 2024 Data Breach
Nationwide staffing agency Arizona Labor Force Inc. must face two claims of a proposed class action alleging it negligently failed to protect the personal information of current and former employees ...
Case: Disabilities Discrimination/Failure to Accommodate (W.D.N.Y.)
Erie County, New York’s motion for summary judgment is partly denied on the Americans with Disabilities Act failure to accommodate claim of a data processing clerk injured and restricted from lifting ...
GOP-Led States Say Biden FTC Overstepped With Noncompete Ban
The Federal Trade Commission unlawfully intruded on states’ regulatory power by issuing a near-total ban on worker noncompete ...
Purdue, Sackler Family Reach New $7.4 Billion Opioid Settlement
Bankrupt Purdue Pharma LP and members of the billionaire Sackler family agreed to pay $7.4 billion to a group of US states and other parties to settle long-running litigation over OxyContin’s role in ...
Texas Bar Examiners Escape Race Bias Suit Over Admission Denial
Texas can continue to prevent law school graduates from sitting for the bar exam when they don’t satisfy certain educational requirements, even though the state mistakenly admitted an unqualified ...
Case: Disability Discrimination/Failure to Accommodate (1st Cir.)
The First Circuit vacated a federal court’s summary judgment grant to Peterson’s Oil Service, Inc. on the Americans with Disabilities Act and Massachusetts law claims of a service technician with knee ...
Indian Immigrants Lose Another Challenge to Green Card Policies
An appellate court rejected the latest challenge by Indian immigrants to US policies on green card wait times.
Turkey Buyers Win Class Certification In Price-Fixing Lawsuit
Two groups of turkey purchasers won class status in a lawsuit accusing the nation’s largest poultry producers of conspiring to inflate prices and limit supply, a milestone in litigation dating to 2019 ...
Burr & Forman Hire Charles Marshall as Chief Operating Officer
Charles Marshall will join Burr & Forman as chief operating officer March 1, the firm announced Thursday. Marshall will ...
Paul Hastings Adds Entertainment, Media Partner Sidney Fohrman
Sidney Fohrman joined Paul Hastings as a partner and chair of the music industry practice in Los Angeles, the firm announced ...