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June 07, 2005 |

Avoiding Age Discrimination

Today, more than ever, employment lawyers need to encourage their clients to be proactive in guarding against costly age-bias litigation. A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling is just one reason companies should be concerned about the threat of increased age discrimination litigation. Some legal experts fear that the high court's holding that disparate impact claims are cognizable under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act will produce a flood of claims based on completely unintentional conduct.
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July 27, 2012 |

Unpublished Opinions

Opinions not approved for publication.
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June 10, 2008 |

Animal Owners Seek Class Action Status in Suit Over Pet Food Additives

Pet owners seeking class action status in a suit against manufacturers, packers and retailers say TV images of a kitchen making a "Tuscan" meal for kitty are pure fantasy. The $58 billion spent on pet food over the last four years has been without consumers' knowledge that the "quality" or "premium" foods they are feeding their pets "are made wholly or partially of inedible garbage unfit for human consumption," says the suit. The litigation is expected to heat up soon in a fight over documents.
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September 15, 2010 |

POM Sues FTC Over Advertising Rules

Juice maker POM Wonderful has filed suit against the FTC in D.C. District Court, claiming the agency has created a new standard for the evaluation of deceptive advertising that tramples the company's free speech rights. Lawyers for POM, including Barry Coburn of Coburn & Coffman, are seeking a declaration in the court that the FTC's new standard is invalid and that the agency has overstepped its authority by allegedly encroaching on the FDA.
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June 07, 2013 |

New Strategies for Grey Market Protection in Wake of 'Kirtsaeng'

Milton Springut, a partner at Springut Law, writes: In March, the Supreme Court held that the "first sale" doctrine applies to items manufactured and sold abroad by the copyright owner, making it harder to control items manufactured abroad by the owner or its licensees, and then imported into the United States to take advantage of better pricing here. However, there remain a number of strategies for controlling such importation and resale.
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July 10, 1999 |

'Oncale's' Aftereffects

Over a year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.,which recognized a cause of action for same-sex workplace harassment. Lower courts relying on Oncalehave not, as some feared, transformed Title VII into a workplace civility code. Instead, courts have embraced its reasoning that Title VII only creates a cause of action when one sex is treated less favorably than the other and that sexual misconduct in general does not automatically create a claim.
9 minute read
August 31, 2011 |

Feds, Industry Square Off Over Proposal to Combat Childhood Obesity

Too many American kids are overweight. That's about the only point of agreement in a bitter food fight that's broken out in Washington, pitting the full might of the food industry against four federal agencies and public health advocates.
9 minute read
August 29, 2011 |

Cereal killers

Too many American kids are overweight. That's about the only point of agreement in a bitter food fight that's broken out in Washington, pitting the full might of the food industry against four federal agencies and public health advocates.
9 minute read
August 30, 2011 |

Cereal Killers

Too many American kids are overweight. That's about the only point of agreement in a bitter food fight that's broken out in Washington.
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