Supreme Court Rules that Statute of Limitations Period for Constructive...
The U.S. Supreme Court recently held that the statute of limitations period for constructive discharge claims under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (Title VII) begins to run from the date that...
View ArticleEighth Circuit Finds Non-Competition Agreements Assignable to Successor...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit recently held that a successor employer, who was assigned non-competition agreements as part of an asset purchase, could seek to enforce the...
View ArticleNLRB Holds Student Assistants Who Have a Common-Law Employment Relationship...
In an August 23, 2016, decision, Trustees of Columbia University, 364 NLRB No. 90 (2016), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) overruled existing precedent and held that student assistants, who...
View ArticleSeventh Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment for Employer in Title VII and Title...
Recently, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Burton v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, affirmed the district court’s order granting summary judgment...
View ArticleNLRB Asserts Jurisdiction Over Non-Teaching Employees of a Private Religious...
In an April 6, 2017, decision, Saint Xavier University, 365 NLRB No. 64 (2017), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) determined that it was appropriate to exercise jurisdiction over a...
View ArticleSeventh Circuit Holds Distressed County Did Not Violate ADEA When It...
On July 26, 2017, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Carson v. Lake County, Indiana affirmed the district court’s order granting summary judgment to the employer on the...
View Article[Webinar] An Overview of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act:...
Complaints about access to restaurants and other retail establishments? Challenges to website design? Today Public Accommodation lawsuits are growing and plaintiffs’ attorneys are becoming more...
View ArticleThird Circuit Affirms Judgment in Favor of Employer in ADA Action, Finding...
Recently, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in McNelis v. Pennsylvania Power & Light Company affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the employer in a...
View ArticleSupreme Court Rules that Statute of Limitations Period for Constructive...
The U.S. Supreme Court recently held that the statute of limitations period for constructive discharge claims under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (Title VII) begins to run from the date that...
View ArticleEighth Circuit Finds Non-Competition Agreements Assignable to Successor...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit recently held that a successor employer, who was assigned non-competition agreements as part of an asset purchase, could seek to enforce the...
View ArticleNLRB Holds Student Assistants Who Have a Common-Law Employment Relationship...
In an August 23, 2016, decision, Trustees of Columbia University, 364 NLRB No. 90 (2016), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) overruled existing precedent and held that student assistants, who...
View ArticleSeventh Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment for Employer in Title VII and Title...
Recently, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Burton v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, affirmed the district court’s order granting summary judgment...
View ArticleNLRB Asserts Jurisdiction Over Non-Teaching Employees of a Private Religious...
In an April 6, 2017, decision, Saint Xavier University, 365 NLRB No. 64 (2017), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) determined that it was appropriate to exercise jurisdiction over a...
View ArticleSeventh Circuit Holds Distressed County Did Not Violate ADEA When It...
On July 26, 2017, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Carson v. Lake County, Indiana affirmed the district court’s order granting summary judgment to the employer on the...
View Article[Webinar] An Overview of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act:...
Complaints about access to restaurants and other retail establishments? Challenges to website design? Today Public Accommodation lawsuits are growing and plaintiffs’ attorneys are becoming more...
View ArticleThird Circuit Affirms Judgment in Favor of Employer in ADA Action, Finding...
Recently, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in McNelis v. Pennsylvania Power & Light Company affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the employer in a...
View ArticleSixth Circuit Holds Employer Not Vicariously Liable For Actions Of Alleged...
Recently, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Hylko v. U.S. Steel Corporation affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the employer in a lawsuit alleging...
View ArticleSeventh Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment in Favor of Employer Finding That...
Recently, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Painter v. Illinois Department of Transportation affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the employer in a...
View ArticleFirst Circuit Finds Termination of Employee for Inability to Work Rotating...
Recently, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, in Sepulveda-Vargas v. Caribbean Restaurants, LLC, affirmed a lower court’s decision in favor of the employer in a lawsuit alleging...
View ArticleSupreme Court Rules that Public-Sector Agency-Shop Arrangements Violate the...
On June 27, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31 struck down an Illinois law requiring public employees represented by a...
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