Bloomberg Law “A Papa John’s franchisee defeated a delivery driver suit over mileage reimbursement because the worker failed to allege his pay fell below Colorado’s minimum wage, a federal judge said. The driver argued that improper reimbursement for the costs of using a personal vehicle to deliver pizzas for HPG Read more
Bloomberg Law “TikTok’s Chinese parent company faces a ban in the US next month as a result of a federal appeals court ruling Friday, ratcheting up a political clash over the wildly popular video-sharing app. A three-judge panel in Washington unanimously upheld a new US law, ruling that it didn’t violate free Read more
Bloomberg Law ” Court finds defects in Live Nation’s batched proceedings Class action against Live Nation to proceed in open court A Ninth Circuit ruling that denied Live Nation Entertainment Inc.’s bid to compel “batched” arbitration underscores the risks that corporate defendants face when pushing to resolve consumer antitrust disputes outside of Read more
Bloomberg Law “Target Corp. must face allegations it collected shoppers’ biometric data without their knowledge to thwart shoplifting in violation of a state privacy law, a federal judge said. Target customers filed a complaint against the retailer in May, accusing it of deploying facial recognition-enabled video surveillance systems in its stores that captured Read more
Bloomberg Law “US Supreme Court justices showed an interest in returning to the SEC the job of refining companies’ risk disclosure requirements during oral argument Nov. 7 in a Meta Platforms Inc. securities fraud case. The justices repeatedly wondered what kind of guideline they could craft as they confronted a wide range Read more
Bloomberg Law “Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. and its top executives prevailed again on appeal in a securities lawsuit, after a panel of Second Circuit judges ruled Friday that investors couldn’t show the entertainment giant misled them in disclosures before its merger took place. The offering documents for the tie-up between Read more
Bloomberg Law “The US Department of Justice last month unveiled revisions to its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs to account for, among other things, recent developments in companies’ use of artificial intelligence technologies. The revised text of the ECCP sets forth questions and considerations that the DOJ will raise in any criminal investigation Read more
ABA Journal “Former New Jersey lawyers who are disbarred will in most cases be allowed to apply for reinstatement after five years, the New Jersey Supreme Court has decided. The New Jersey Supreme Court’s Oct. 15 order and determination reject the approach that it adopted in a 1979 case that Read more
American Bar Association “There has been a growing interest in the acquisition and sale of telehealth providers. While the COVID-19 pandemic may have laid the foundation, a recent wave of success for online compounding pharmacies producing weight loss drugs has enhanced the interest in telehealth companies. Such telehealth companies are focusing on Read more
Bloomberg Law “Apple Inc. must face several claims in a proposed class action alleging it collected data from app users after they had selected iPhone or iPad settings that Apple said would stop data tracking. The consumers sufficiently alleged they withdrew their consent to the contested data collection by disabling Read more