The American Arbitration Association’s Rules are among the most widely used rules in the United States. Fred G. Bennett, a partner with Quinn Emanuel’s Los Angeles office and the chair of the U.S. Arbitration Practice, was head of the AAA task force...
On January 27, the National Futures Association (NFA) issued a notice to its members indicating that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has authorized it to request suspicious activity reports (SARs), information revealing the existence or...
Last week, the Supreme Court decided the case of Sandifer v. United States Steel Corp., Case No. 12-417 (Jan. 27, 2014), addressing donning and doffing claims in the context of a unionized steel mill. That case not only addressed fundamental issues...
Based upon a unanimous ruling from the United States Supreme Court and comments from President Barack Obama during his State of the Union address, wage and hour issues are front and center for 2014. Under the wage and hour laws, specifically the Fair...
On January 30, 2014, CMS announced a temporary moratorium on Medicare enrollment of home health agencies operating in Fort Lauderdale, Dallas, Houston, and Detroit. It also announced a temporary moratorium on Medicare enrollment of ambulance...
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to wade into a battle between Pom Wonderful and The Coca-Cola Co. over whether the labels on Coke’s Minute Maid pomegranate-blueberry juice blend violate the Lanham Act’s prohibition against false advertising....
For our readers who are involved in insuring public and private entities against sexual abuse claims, you may be interested to know that legislation to reform the civil and criminal statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse claims was...
In its recently published opinion in Summers v. Altarum Institute, Corp., No. 13-1645, decided January 23, 2014, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit became the first federal appellate court to hold that a sufficiently severe...
The U.S. Supreme Court has made clear that a third party may bring a retaliation claim against an employer under Title VII, broadly interpreting the law’s prohibition of any employer conduct that might dissuade a reasonable worker from making or...
In July 2013, the Advisory Council for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, a committee that includes Federal Circuit litigators, law professors, court clerks, and government attorneys, issued a “Model Order Limiting Excess...
