By Charles Toutant | June 14, 2018
The "Epic Systems" ruling "was a big decision, in that it reinforced the current state of the law," said Mitchell Boyarsky, a management-side employment lawyer at Gibbons in New York.
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By Zack Needles | June 14, 2018
Almost immediately after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued its game-changing workers' compensation ruling in Protz last year, attorneys began gearing up to litigate the natural follow-up question: Should the decision be applied retroactively? A much buzzed-about June 6 ruling by the Commonwealth Court en banc may have finally answered that question.
By Greg Land | June 14, 2018
After a jury acquitted the former housekeeper and her lawyers of criminal charges related to secretly video recording former Waffle House CEO Joe Rogers Jr. engaged in a sex act, the Georgia Supreme Court sent the related civil appeals back to the Court of Appeals for reconsideration.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. D'Annunzio | June 14, 2018
In a split decision denying unemployment compensation benefits to a truck driver who was fired for using a racial slur, a sole dissenting Commonwealth Court judge said the man should not have been found to have committed willful misconduct given his employer's history of leniency regarding racial epithets.
By Erin Mulvaney | June 14, 2018
We've got highlights from the EEOC's sexual harassment task force meeting, where management-side and plaintiffs lawyers made observations about #MeToo and what's next. Plus: scroll down for who got the work in some of big cases, and check out the latest on the moves front. Thanks for reading!
By Scott Graham | June 13, 2018
Chief Judge David Ruschke alleges he was laid off from Medtronic's in-house department for pretextual reasons in 2015.
By Scott Graham | June 13, 2018
Chief Judge David Ruschke alleges he was laid off from Medtronic's in-house department for pretextual reasons in 2015 in a lawsuit playing out in Oakland federal court.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Zack Needles | June 13, 2018
The panel said Carr's Facebook comments were protected by the First Amendment because she was speaking about a matter of public concern and there was no evidence that the comments would cause tangible harm to PennDOT.
By Erin Mulvaney | June 13, 2018
The EEOC alleged the freight rail company's physical abilities tests discriminated against female applicants for various posts. The company did not admit liability.
By John Council | June 13, 2018
In a ruling that could have lawyers double-checking the signature blocks on all manner of arbitration clauses, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has invalidated an agreement because the employer failed to sign it.
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