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Callahan v. Edgewater Care & Rehab. Center, Inc.

Labor & Employment Law
An order of the circuit court dismissing plaintiff's common-law retaliatory discharge action is reversed and the matter remanded where the enactment...

Taylor v. Progress Energy, Inc.

Labor & Employment Law
Under 29 C.F.R. section 825.220(d), a regulation implementing the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, the plain language of section 220(d) precludes...

Sariol v. Florida Crystals Corp.

Agriculture, Labor & Employment Law
In suit alleging Fair Labor Standards Act violation for overtime compensation, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed as the FLSA's agriculture...

Broggy v. Rockefeller Group, Inc.

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In case where plaintiff, a window washer was injured at a worksite, sued people involved with the office building, appellate division's reversal of...

Morris v. Pavarini Constr.

Construction, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The question of whether a Labor Department regulation, requiring "forms" to be "braced or tied together so as to maintain position and shape" has been...

Int'l Bhd. of Elec. Workers v. IL Bell Tel. Co.

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit by a labor union over a company's proposed shift in employee evaluation policies, grant of plaintiff's motion to compel arbitration is...

Jenkins v. BellSouth Corp.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
In putative class action alleging a pattern and practice of racial discrimination in promotions and compensation by defendant, a district court lacks...

McPherson v. O'Reilly Automotive, Inc.

Labor & Employment Law
In an action brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), summary judgment for employer is affirmed as: 1) a claim that defendant...

Dep't Pers. Admin. v. Cal. Correctional Peace Officers Ass'n

Civil Procedure, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
Vacatur of arbitrator's award is affirmed as the arbitrator exceeded her powers when she determined that a written collective bargaining memorandum of...

Gasch v. Hartford Accident & Indem. Co.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In an action against an insurer and an adjuster alleging that the insurer improperly denied plaintiffs' claim for workers' compensation survivor death...