Employment Litigation, Former Employee, Summary Judgment

Tenth Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment Due to Plaintiff’s Failure to Sufficiently Establish Existence of Trade Secrets

Littler on 5/9/2025

The Tenth Circuit’s recent decision in Double Eagle Alloys, Inc. v. Hooper, __F.4th __ (10th Cir. Apr. 22, 2025), provides a cautionary tale regarding the necessity of identifying trade secrets with particularity and...more

With Great Caution and Deference New Jersey Courts Leave Decisions Resulting From Internal Grievance Proceedings of Universities...

Genova Burns LLC on 3/5/2024

On February 16, 2024, in a published decision in Chee Ng, PH.D., v. Fairleigh Dickinson University, the New Jersey Appellate Division granted summary judgment in favor of the University against a former tenured professor who...more

Arizona Court of Appeals Reinstates Retaliatory Discharge Claim Under Fair Wages and Healthy Family Act

Perkins Coie on 11/7/2023

The Arizona Court of Appeals recently held in Papias v. Parker Fasteners LLC, No. 1 CA-CV 22-0775 (Ariz. Ct. App. Oct. 17, 2023), that a discharged employee could proceed with his retaliation claim against his former...more

Too Little Too Late: No Tenable Misappropriation Claim Based on 11-Year-Old Prototype

McDermott Will & Schulte on 8/12/2022

In a dispute between an employer and a former employee, the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment against an employer asserting trade secret misappropriation and...more

Retaliation suit shows requests for unpaid overtime can be a timekeeping trap

McAfee & Taft on 2/19/2020

Informed employers know they must pay non-exempt employee for all hours actually worked. If an employee works unapproved hours or overtime, the company must still pay for that time; however, they may discipline that worker...more

Fourth Circuit Finds Employer Cannot Compel Arbitration of Former Employee’s Discrimination Claims

Carlton Fields on 5/1/2018

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently ruled that two employment-related arbitration clauses did not “clearly and unmistakably” govern a former employee’s discrimination claims, and that the arbitrability...more

PAGA Claim Defeated Based on Insufficient Notice to the LWDA

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 3/1/2018

Last month, the California Court of Appeal determined in Khan v. Dunn-Edwards Corp., 2018 Cal.App. LEXIS 44 (Cal. App. 2d Dist. Jan. 4, 2018)(certified for publication), that a former employee’s claim under the Private...more

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