Riley Brennan

May 16, 2023 | Law.com

Sixth Circuit Judge R. Guy Cole Jr. determined the plaintiffs, parents of children who qualified as students with disabilities under IDEA, had failed to plead the necessary requirements for standing in regard to their claims,

By Riley Brennan

6 minute read

May 16, 2023 | Law.com

"Most troubling is that a client with significant mental health and substance abuse issues was materially limited in her legal representation because her attorney prioritized his sexual lust over his responsibilities and the client's best interests," the court said.

By Riley Brennan

7 minute read

May 15, 2023 | Law.com

In what it described as "the latest in a line of cases calling for interpretation of Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act," the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit further clarified that employees who perform transportation work are exempt from the FAA regardless of whether they have additional job duties beyond that.

By Riley Brennan

5 minute read

May 15, 2023 | Law.com

"This decision restores the longstanding right of injured North Dakota workers to seek accountability from negligent general contractors and other workplace entities," counsel for the plaintiffs said.

By Riley Brennan

5 minute read

May 12, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

"The court system is the one place where we can hold employers accountable for any form of discrimination in the workplace, whether it's comments about an employee's age, or preferential treatment of younger colleagues, or, like here, both of those things," said Schuck's attorney, David M. Koller, of Koller Law, in Philadelphia.

By Riley Brennan

4 minute read

May 12, 2023 | Law.com

"Mr. Woods did not surrender his reasonable expectation of privacy when his wife answered a knock on the closed door of their home. Further, during the entire encounter, Mr. Woods stood behind his wife inside the home. As such, Mr. Woods was not in a 'public place' when the officers initiated the arrest," the court said. "The officers' entry into Mr. Woods' home without a warrant also was not justified given the absence of any exigent circumstances, such as the need to prevent the imminent destruction of evidence or to prevent a suspect's escape."

By Riley Brennan

4 minute read

May 12, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

The suit stems from the COVID-19 pandemic halting the university's ability to hold in-person events, which Runaway had agreed to provide audio and visual production, broadcasting, videotaping and other productions goods for, as outlined in their agreement from February 2020.

By Riley Brennan

5 minute read

May 11, 2023 | Law.com

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit partially reversed the granting of summary judgment to defendants after the estate of a inmate who died in prison brought suit alleging he died due to their deliberate indifference to his medical needs.

By Riley Brennan

5 minute read

May 11, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

Philadelphia attorney Jonathan Olivetti has been sentenced to more than two years in prison following his conviction on wire fraud charges in connection with a scheme to obtain COVID-19 pandemic relief money he wasn't entitled to receive, along with mail fraud and tax evasion charges.

By Riley Brennan

2 minute read

May 11, 2023 | Law.com

"The totality of the circumstances shows that the State chose to remove every juror who exhibited an awareness of racial justice issues when a Black defendant was on trial," the appeals court said.

By Riley Brennan

5 minute read