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Smalley v. The Dreyfus Corp.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In case where at-will employees sued their former employer for fraudulent inducement to enter into and remain in the employment of defendant,...

Benders v. Bellows & Bellows

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit alleging retaliation, ERISA violations and retaliatory discharge, summary judgment for defendant-employer is affirmed in part and reversed...

Schuler v. PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In class-action suit led by 63-year-old plaintiff alleging that defendant employer is violating the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the D.C....

Kern v. Sitel Corp.

Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
In an action alleging defendant breached a Sales Compensation Plan by failing to give plaintiff certain incentive pay allegedly due under the plan,...

Hammond v. County of LA

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In suit alleging violations of the FEHA, racial harassment, and retaliation, summary judgment for defendants is reversed in part where: 1) there is a...

Brand v. Regents of the Univ. of Cal.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In suit alleging unlawful retaliation for making disclosures protected by the California Whistleblower Protection Act, sustaining of demurrer is...

EEOC v. Firestone Fibers & Textiles Co.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In Title VII action alleging defendant discriminated against intervenor-plaintiff based on his religion, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed...

Edstrom Indus., Inc. v. Companion Life Ins. Co.

Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a challenge to an arbitrator's decision in favor of an insurance company in a dispute over the insurer's alteration of the policy, district court...

W&M Props. of CT, Inc. v. NLRB

Labor & Employment Law
Petition for review challenging order that employer's decision not to retain employees of a newly acquired business was unlawfully animated by a...

Skare v. Extendicare Health Servs., Inc.

Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit brought against plaintiff's former employer, nursing home operator, under the Minnesota whistleblower statute, alleging retaliation for her...