Daily Report Online | Commentary
By Sherry Culves | September 24, 2024
When workers seeking accommodations such as reduced duties, remote work or intermittent or extended leaves of absence are denied, they are filing disability discrimination claims.
By ALM Staff | September 23, 2024
This ruling was selected and summarized by the New York Law Journal's decisions editors.
By Ryan Glasgow, Christopher Pardo and Katherine Sandberg | September 23, 2024
"The court also determined that the Final Rule was overbroad," write Ryan Glasgow, Christopher Pardo and Katherine Sandberg of Hunton Andrews Kurth.
By Matthew C. Daly and Alexander W. Leonard | September 23, 2024
A recent decision from a federal court in California shows that employers need to be careful to avoid potential discriminatory impact if they use AI in employment decisions. EEOC and local lawmakers, including NYC, are also taking steps to ensure that the adoption of this emerging technology is compliant with anti-discrimination laws.
By Adolfo Pesquera | September 20, 2024
A legal tech company's refusal to enter collective bargaining had merit, the Fifth Circuit said, because a class of supervisors were improperly included in the bargaining unit. The decision went against the National Labor Relations Board.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Samuel H. Pond | September 20, 2024
In Elite Care RX v. Premier Comp Solutions, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was asked to address where a health care provider can pursue a claim against an insurer for unpaid medical bills incurred by injured workers receiving workers' compensation benefits. Must a provider go through the administrative processes of Pennsylvania's Workers' Compensation Act (the act), or could it pursue a civil lawsuit?
Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Emily Cousins | September 19, 2024
Michael S. O'Malley of Ogletree Deakins, along with Evan H. Cohn of Taft Stettinius & Hollister, are counsel for the plaintiff.
By Marianna Wharry | September 18, 2024
"Here, the plaintiff has alleged that a core principle of being 'Pagan' is submitting to natural forces and refusing artificial medical aid," U.S. Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV wrote. "She has asserted that the mRNA technology used to develop some of the COVID-19 vaccines makes them unnatural and impermissible, as distinct from the virus-derived annual flu vaccine. That asserted connection is sufficient to support a plausible claim that accepting at least some of the COVID-19 vaccines would violate a tenet of her idiosyncratic religion."
By Mason Lawlor | September 18, 2024
"It is not clear from the face of the complaint that plaintiff's breach of contract claim is barred by the statute of limitations because it is plausible that partial payments from defendant Adora made sometime between 2016 and 2022 tolled the statute of limitations. This is a factual issue that cannot be resolved at the motion to dismiss stage," U.S. District Judge William L. Osteen said.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Riley Brennan | September 18, 2024
This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM's source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in state and federal courts.
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