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Comer v. American Transmission Systems, Inc., Civil Action No. 23-1464, 2025 WL 1530750 (W.D. Pa. May 29, 2025) - Carlos Melendez was working on a âtransmission tower painting crewâ for one of several named defendants when he...more
Do former employees have the right to sue their previous employer under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for discrimination in the administration of post-employment fringe benefits? Resolving a circuit...more
This third installment of the 10 Compelling Reasons for Employment Arbitration explores the impact of an arbitration agreement on a plaintiffâs litigation strategy. As discussed herein, arbitration programs can tamp down a...more
In a decision poised to change the landscape of Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (âERISAâ) litigation, on April 17, 2025, the Supreme Court held in Cunningham et al. v. Cornell University et al. that a claimant...more
Last week attorneys for Creative Actors Agency (CAA), Miramax and Disney delivered oral argument in their appeal to try to prevent actor Julia Ormondâs negligence claims from moving forward in New York State Court. Oral...more
A federal court decision in Massachusetts denying a motion to dismiss a putative class action has spurred a potential wave of similar claims, all arising under the Massachusetts Lie Detector Statute. The statute requires...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In two cases issued by the Seventh Circuit, Passarella and Dottenwhy v. Aspirus, Inc. and Bube and Hedrington v. Aspirus Hospital, Inc. the Court held that at the motion to dismiss stage, the fact that a...more
A Maryland federal district court denied a restaurant franchisorâs motion to dismiss, concluding that a restaurant manager at a franchised location alleged sufficient facts to support a finding that the franchisor is a joint...more
On February 12, 2024, in Johnson v. Loweâs Home Centers, LLC, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that an employeeâs non-arbitrable, representative PAGA claims are not subject to dismissal when the plaintiff is ordered to...more
Nearly a decade ago, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued three decisions clarifying and tightening the standard for asserting plausible overtime claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in the...more
Colavecchia v. South Side Area Sch. Dist., No. 2:22-CV-01804-CCW, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 70461 (W.D. Pa. April 21, 2023). The United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania denied South Side Area School...more
On April 19, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey granted the defendant-employerâs motion to dismiss a complaint seeking court enforcement of a preliminary reinstatement order after determining that...more
A federal court in Maine granted a franchisorâs motion to dismiss claims asserting that a franchisor was liable for its franchiseeâs alleged age discrimination in employment. Goodwill v. Anywhere Real Est., 2023 WL 4034372...more
A Michigan federal district court denied a franchisorâs motion to dismiss claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Michigan law, and claims alleging retaliatory termination and sexually hostile work...more
A judge for the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, on March 17, 2022, denied defendant Scribe Opco, Inc.âs motion to dismiss a class action alleging violations of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining...more
A Florida federal court just denied an employerâs effort to dismiss a disability discrimination claim filed by a legally blind applicant who alleges the employer asked improper pre-offer questions on its standard job...more
On April 12, 2021, the New Jersey District Court for the District of New Jersey in Spence v. New Jersey, et al., granted in part and denied in part a motion to dismiss an employeeâs sexual harassment and retaliation claims...more
As COVID-19-related litigation increases, courts are being called upon to interpret the scope of employersâ duties to protect their employees with relation to the virus. Last week, a California federal judge dismissed a...more
The Texas Commission on Human Rights Act (TCHRA) prohibits discrimination in employment based on sex. The state law defines âsex discriminationâ to include âdiscrimination because of or on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth,...more
On January 4, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida ruled that neither the ânatural disasterâ exception nor the âunforeseeable business circumstanceâ exception warranted dismissal of a WARN Act...more
The Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has proven to be a significant burden on Illinois employers, and a recent Illinois federal court decision may have made the legal landscape even more difficult. In Cothron...more
On March 10, 2020, the New Jersey Supreme Court affirmed the reinstatement of a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by a medical cannabis cardholder against his former employer, after he was fired for failing a...more
Ever since the Supreme Court's 2005 decision in Smith v. City of Jackson, plaintiff employment lawyers have struggled with how best to assert a viable claim of disparate impact age discrimination. The concept of disparate...more
The Southern District of New York granted a motion to compel arbitration of an employment dispute between the petitioners and the respondent. The petitioners also filed a motion to dismiss or stay a concurrent proceeding that...more
On September 20, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled in Robert Kenney v. Helix TCS, Inc. that the Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA) applies to workers in the cannabis industry. This is a...more