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Maine Association of Retirees v. Board of Trustees of the Maine Public Employees Retirement System

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Government Benefits, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment in favor of defendants on plaintiffs' claims that certain amendments to Maine's public employee retirement system violate the...

Von Nothdurft v. Steck

Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
Judgment in favor of defendant-employer in an action in which plaintiff-resident manager employee sought to recover wages for all of her work without...

Salas v. Sierra Chemical Co.

Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation, Constitutional Law, Evidence
In an action brought under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) alleging that defendant-employer failed to reasonably accommodate...

NLRB v. Noel Canning

Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a challenge to an order of the National Labor Relations Board, claiming that the Board lacked a quorum because three of the five Board members had...

Young v. WCAB

Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
A county jail correctional sergeant's off-duty injury, sustained when he was performing jumping jacks at home as part of his regular warm-up exercise...

Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer

Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law, Constitutional Law, ERISA
In an action in which plaintiffs allege that defendants breached the fiduciary duty of prudence imposed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act...

Iskanian v. CLS Transportation

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
In a class action lawsuit brought by plaintiff-employee on behalf of himself and similarly situated employees for defendant-employer's alleged failure...

In Re: Norfolk Southern Railway Co.

Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation, Workers' Compensation
Petitioner's appeal from a district court order remanding to state court a claim brought against petitioner pursuant to the Federal Employers'...

Davis v. Nordstrom, Inc.

Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law, Class Actions, Contracts
The district court's order denying defendant-employer's motion to compel arbitration of an employee's claims that were brought as a putative class...

Johnmohammadi v. Bloomingdale's, Inc.

Class Actions, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
The district court's order granting defendant-employer's motion to compel arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act, and dismissing without...