A federal appeals court gave the green light four months ago to a record-breaking employment discrimination case against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. that has been in the pipeline almost a decade.
A Kentucky coal miner who videotaped leaking seals at work and showed the footage at a federal mine safety hearing has won a reversal of the subsequent disciplinary action taken…
Michael Holston became Hewlett-Packard’s general counsel in 2007 after overseeing a probe into HP’s use of pretexting as part of a corporate effort to stop…
An uptick of government and private enforcement efforts in recent months concerning alleged wage-and-hour violations is now focusing on the health care industry.
A lawyer who oversaw appeals of decisions involving employment benefits has been reassigned after his tips to employers ended up in a newspaper article.
Duquesne University’s law school says in court documents that a former instructor who sued the school did a poor job of overseeing grant funds and “resisted being accountable to anyone…
After a New York hospital in 2007 instituted a policy that nurses must acknowledge they witnessed patients sign informed consent forms regardless of whether the nurses actually did witness the…
When dealing with a sexual harassment suit, an executive of a video game giant allegedly said he wanted to spend to defend rather than settle with the plaintiff for $200,000…
A jury is weighing punitive damages after awarding a California lawyer $1.55 million in a defamation counterclaim against the paralegal who sued him for sexual harassment.
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