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National Law Journal

Guantanamo Defense Attorneys Sue Over Work Conditions

The attorneys, which include civilian and JAG lawyers, say they are forced to work in conditions that expose them to carcinogens while defending a client from the death penalty.
10 minute read

Litigation Daily

This is the Most Terrifying Lawsuit Ever

It's like something out of “The Terminator.” A Michigan woman who worked in an auto parts factory was killed by a robot that inexplicably left its section and came into hers, where it “hit and crushed [her] head between a hitch assembly.”
8 minute read

International Edition

Sweatshops, Slavery and GCs

Two decades after retailers got blowback for their labor practices abroad, more top lawyers are stepping into business-focused roles and tackling sustainability and corporate social responsibility efforts.
30 minute read

New York Law Journal

An Opening in Labor Law §240

Julian D. Ehrlich writes: Recently, a long-simmering rift has widened within the Appellate Divisions regarding the application of the Scaffold Law to the common worksite accident scenario where a portion, but not all, of a worker's body falls through an opening.
16 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Guns in the Workplace: New Challenges Presented by Increasing State Regulation

Many employers have been looking to develop specific policies addressing the possession of firearms in the workplace. In formulating such policies, one of the paramount considerations must be the many state laws limiting employers' ability to restrict employees' gun possession.
19 minute read

Daily Business Review

State Senators Start Weighing Workers' Compensation Issues

The battle lines are being drawn. Or maybe they never went away. But Florida senators last week got a taste of the debate that will play out in the coming months among business, legal and labor groups as the Legislature looks at revamping the workers' compensation insurance system.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Kovacevich v. Crown Equip. Corp., PICS Case No. 16-1426 (C.P. Philadelphia Aug. 22, 2016) Lachman, J. (38 pages).

By | December 02, 2016
Plaintiff Christopher Kovacevich appealed from the denial of his post-trial motion to remove the nonsuit of his premises liability action against defendant Reginal Produce Cooperative Corporation. Plaintiff was employed by T.M. Kovacevich, which leased space in the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market operated by defendant, as a salesman. While plaintiff was working inside a cold box, part of the private space leased by TMK, his co-worker Ernest Scarlata was in the common concourse of the market, which was maintained by defendant, operating an electric pallet jack "forks first" such that the load on the pallet jack prevented Scarlata from seeing objects in front him. Scarlata drove the pallet jack into the cold box and impacted plaintiff, causing plaintiff to sustain severe injuries.
6 minute read

Law.com

RoboLaw: A Q&A With Littler's AI Practice Leader Garry Mathiason

Veteran class action litigator Garry Mathiason recently traded his firm management role for a new challenge, co-chairing the firm's emergent Robotics, AI, and Automation practice group. Mathiason sat down with ALM Director of Intelligence Dirk Olin to discuss the new group as well as the brave new world of the law machine.
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Post-Brexit Ramifications for Pharma, Life Sciences Industries

This article seeks to summarize what Brexit could mean for the U.K. and EU pharmaceutical and medical device sectors.
16 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

EEOC Sues Hospital for Bias in Demanding Employee Flu Shots

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has taken up the case of a group of nurses and medical workers who claim they were fired from an Erie-based hospital over their religious objections to mandatory vaccinations.
5 minute read

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