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COVID-19 Death Suit Against Nursing Home Sent to State Court, 11th Circuit Affirms

"We, like our sister circuits that have addressed nearly identical arguments, therefore conclude that Defendants were not acting under a federal official," Judge Babara Lagoa said. "Instead, Defendants operated as a private assisted living facility that may, or may not, have complied with federal recommendations and regulations concerning COVID-19."
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Law.com

7th Circuit Orders Company to Pay Employees for Time Spent Traveling to Job Sites During 'Normal Working Hours'

The court determined that "an employee is entitled to compensation for overnight travel when it 'cuts across' his 'workday.'"
5 minute read

Law.com

State Appellate Court Orders New Trial After Judge Denies Rescheduling, Despite Counsel's Health Emergency

On appeal from the Cook County Circuit Court, the manager of Onward restaurant in Chicago argued that trial judge Robert F. Harris wrongly denied his motion for continuance to push back a jury trial because his attorney was injured and required surgery just prior to the start date.
5 minute read

Law.com

State Appellate Court Denies Hospital's Request to Move Med Mal Suit From Chicago

The court denied the defendants' attempts to move the medical malpractice suit from Cook County to Will County.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Appeals Court Affirms Everglades Foundation Scientist Conviction

The Third District Court of Appeal in Miami affirmed Circuit Judge Carlos Lopez's decision, concluding that Van Lent willfully disobeyed an injunction by deleting or downloading files belonging to the foundation, where he had been employed for 17 years.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

Split 4th Circuit Ruling Is a Win for Covington & Burling in US Army Base Attack Litigation

"The federal government's interest in preventing military policy and base security from being governed by the laws of fifty-one separate sovereigns is 'obvious,'" Judge Allison Jones Rushing wrote in a Fourth Circuit majority opinion favoring Covington & Burling.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

'Major Change'? 6th Circuit Steps Into Fight Over NLRB's Expanded Money Remedies

Starbucks is targeting the board's 2022 decision in Thryv Inc. v. NLRB that the agency can order "make-whole relief" for those who suffered an unfair labor practice, including compensation for "all direct or foreseeable pecuniary harms," including credit-card fees, mortgage charges, child-care bills and medical expenses.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Ties Go in Favor of Voters: NY Court of Appeals Upholds 2021 Canvassing Law

The state's highest court was unanimous in deciding that the 2021 reform measure doesn't run afoul of an equal representation mandate.
3 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Justices: Can Delaware Courts Put a Price Tag on Corporate Move to Nevada?

Chief Justice Collins J. Seitz Jr. and two associate justices focused on what would give Delaware courts authority to weigh the pros and cons of corporate redomestication.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

3rd Circuit Judges Zero In on Constitutional Challenges to Medicare Drug Pricing Program

Part of the drugmakers' argument is that the federal scheme violates the First Amendment by compelling speech.
6 minute read

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