Law
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The Southern District of New York’s chief judge on Tuesday pushed back a high-profile drug patent trial from May to July after lawyers for Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Serenity Pharmaceuticals LLC expressed concerns about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the proceedings… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A pair of Eleventh Circuit judges tore into their colleagues’ decision Monday to deny a rehearing to a Florida city whose dismissed lawsuit accused Wells Fargo of discriminatory lending, saying the city should have been given more opportunity to prove its standing to bring the case… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Whataburger Restaurants LLC has agreed to pay $180,000 as part of a deal completed Monday that ends a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit accusing the fast-food chain of retaliating against an employee who refused to comply with a directive to hire white job applicants… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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An Illinois federal judge on Friday kept alive a suit by a former McDonald’s worker over alleged no-poach provisions in the fast-food giant’s franchise agreements, saying the claims were laid out adequately and weren’t time-barred… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The First Circuit on Friday backed a lower court’s ruling that Japan is the right place for a suit against General Electric brought by Japanese residents who suffered property losses in the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 