By Leila G. O'Carra
A proposed class action lawsuit filed on November 24, 2014, alleges that Uber Technologies, Inc. and others violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act by obtaining criminal history reports, and taking adverse employment actions based on the information in the reports, without making disclosures required under the Act.
Uber runs ...
By Matthew P. Gunn
November 20, 2014, President Obama announced a series of executive actions aimed at helping to modernize some aspects of the immigration system which would encourage family unity and strengthen immigration options for foreign nationals studying and pursuing work in highly technical fields. At this point, the details for ...
By Sharon L. Gold
On November 17, 2014, after the end of EEOC’s fiscal year (FY 2014), the EEOC released its Performance and Accountability Report (PAR) that discussed the agency’s goals and outcomes and provided statistics for the past year. Some highlights of the PAR:
- According to the PAR, in FY 2014, the EEOC met, partially met or exceeded ...
By Rachel K. Mulloy
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) issued its annual report on Monday, November 17, 2014, presenting a mixed bag of good and (mostly) bad news. The PBGC was created in 1974 as a government insurance program for traditional employer-paid defined benefit pension plans. If an employer can no longer support its pension plan ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
The U.S. Senate’s Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) has set a full committee hearing for November 20, 2014, on the nomination of Lauren McFerran to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board. She was just nominated by the President on November 12, 2014.
Assuming the HELP Committee votes out her ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
On November 12, 2014, President Obama unexpectedly advised the U.S. Senate that he was withdrawing the nomination of Sharon Block to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board and that he was submitting the nomination of Lauren McGarity McFerran to be on the NLRB, replacing Democrat Nancy Schiffer whose term expires ...
This is part two of a three-part series on written description requirements and the developing case law under the America Invents Act (AIA).
The previous post in this series introduced the potential litigation hurdle – or, opportunity, depending on one’s perspective – involving the requirement that a “parent” ...
By Emily C. Lamb
In a big victory for business groups, the Indiana Supreme Court issued a decision on November 6, 2014, in Zoeller v. Sweeney, 2 N.E.3d ___ (Ind. 2014) unanimously holding that Indiana’s Right to Work Law is constitutional. The Right to Work Law, which became effective in February 2012, bars employers from forcing workers to join ...
This is part one of a three-part series on written description requirements and the developing case law under the America Invents Act (AIA).
It happens regularly in patent litigation: a patentee asserts a patent that arose from a child application, the child application claims priority to an application filed years before, and ...