By C. Ryan Barber | August 17, 2017
In a court filing earlier this month, pension advance provider Future Income Payments said the CFPB was demanding information from state authorities that the company provided “generally under confidentiality restrictions.”
By Scott Graham | August 8, 2017
The Coca-Cola Co. and King & Spalding partner Bruce Baber are defending a challenge to the Coke Zero trademark. At issue in Tuesday's argument to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: whether the term zero is too generic to trademark.
By Scott Graham | August 7, 2017
The Electronic Frontier Foundation scored a win Monday in its assault on a patent that claimed to cover the very idea of a podcast.
By Erin Mulvaney | August 4, 2017
The employment community will continue to await a U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decision on the fate of a National Labor Relations Board standard for what constitutes a joint employer relationship. A ruling Friday in CNN's dispute with the NLRB touched on the issue but did not come to a conclusion.
By Erin Mulvaney | August 3, 2017
Civil rights groups want to intervene in a long-running case in Texas over the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's stand on employers citing criminal background checks in hiring decisions, arguing in part that the Trump administration gives them doubt the agencies will "zealously" defend the protections in place.
By C. Ryan Barber | August 1, 2017
A federal appeals court in Washington ruled Tuesday that a district judge should not have allowed extensive redactions and sealed filings in MetLife Inc.'s fight with financial regulators over the company's designation as "too big to fail," in a unanimous opinion that trumpeted the public's right to access court records.
By Erin Mulvaney | July 27, 2017
Bass Pro Outdoor World LLC agreed to pay $10.5 million and bolster its efforts to hire a more diverse workforce at its retail stores that sell fishing, camping and hunting equipment, following a complaint brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The nationwide settlement, ending a long-running employment discrimination case, comes with more than a hefty price tag. Here's a look at the requirements imposed on the company.
By Erin Mulvaney | July 26, 2017
The Trump administration's U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday cast aside another federal agency's arguments that gay and lesbian employees should be protected from workplace sexual orientation discrimination under civil rights laws.
By Marcia Coyle | July 17, 2017
As the business community awaits a federal appellate court decision on the National Labor Relations Board's definition of "joint employer," another key labor case—one that also looks at the relationships between companies—is moving forward in the U.S. Supreme Court.
By Stephanie Forshee | July 11, 2017
The Retail Litigation Center is once again calling out American Express for its "anti-steering rules."
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