Law
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A Massachusetts federal judge tossed a proposed class action by a T-Mobile USA Inc. employee who accused the manager of the company’s 401(k)plan, Fidelity, of operating a so-called pay-to-play scheme in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, with the judge finding the worker couldn’t show the companies acted like fiduciaries… Read this piece…
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The Trump administration is supporting a U.S. Supreme Court challenge to the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but told justices Friday that the California law firm that brought the case is going too far by calling for the whole agency to be scrapped… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A Guatemalan man and his 7-year-old daughter were spared deportation to Mexico under a policy that sends asylum-seekers south of the border while the government processes their cases, with the Third Circuit saying the migrants’ claims had to be decided “now or never”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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After spurring the withdrawal of four federal prosecutors from Roger Stone’s criminal case, President Donald Trump’s tweets about the case sparked commentary Thursday on judicial independence from both Attorney General William Barr and the chief judge of the D.C. federal court handling the case… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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U.S. courts have seen a sharp uptick in intellectual property cases — especially patent and copyright filings — over the past two decades, according to data released Thursday by the administrative arm of the judiciary branch… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 