A bipartisan, bicameral effort is again underway to extend current law and impose new restraints on the online tracking of children and teens under the age of 16. As promised, on Thursday, Nov.14, 2013, Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass) and Rep. Joe...
At the CFPB’s auto finance forum on November 14, Director Cordray and other CFPB officials reiterated their distaste for dealer finance charge participation as a method of dealer compensation in the indirect auto finance market. (As readers know,...
On November 5, 2013, a California federal district court preliminarily approved a revised coupon-based class action settlement agreement between plaintiffs and OfficeMax (see Order Granting Preliminary Approval of Revised Class Action Settlement...
Background - Antitrust authorities in Europe are getting more and more rigid with regard to clauses that restrict or ban online sales, especially sales over internet platforms such as Amazon and ebay. In principle, the EU Commission in its...
Americans strongly oppose allowing bosses to obtain their employees' social media passwords, a new FindLaw.com survey reveals. Many employers may be drawn to the idea of requiring workers to divulge their social media passwords as a condition of employment.
An employment boutique that's been in the news recently because of its unpaid-internship litigation against big entertainment companies is now opening a third office. Outten & Golden announced Monday that Jahan C.
The Supreme Court of Canada has just released the much anticipated decision in Information and Privacy Commissioner, et al. v. United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 401. The case is also known as the Palace Casino case....
Imagine you are driving on a snowy winter night. Suddenly your car skids on a patch of ice and crashes into a pole, sending you hurtling through the windshield onto the sidewalk....
On November 12, CFPB Director Richard Cordray testified before the Senate Banking Committee in connection with the CFPB’s recent Semi-Annual Report to Congress, which covered the period April 1, 2013 through September 30, 2013. The session covered...
2013 is the 70th anniversary of one of the greatest individual seasons in pro football. In 1943, Sammy Baugh, playing for the Washington professional football team, had what Sports Illustrated said one of the greatest season’s a player has ever...
