Law
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A portfolio manager who claims Wells Fargo Bank NA illegally fired her over a medical disability will get another chance to prove her case after the Ninth Circuit said Friday that a lower court had been wrong to find she hadn’t mounted sufficiently convincing evidence… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Creative Artists Agency on Monday became the latest Hollywood talent shop to accuse the Writers Guild of America of “attempting to restrain competition on a staggering scale” by orchestrating a boycott against payments that agents collect from pairing talent with studios… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A New Jersey federal judge on Thursday tossed a putative class action accusing BMW and Robert Bosch LLC of installing emissions-cheating software in vehicles, saying the car buyers hadn’t adequately shown that they had bought vehicles containing such devices… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Several parents caught up in the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal told a Massachusetts federal court Thursday they want to keep their counsel from Latham & Watkins, Nixon Peabody and Ropes & Gray despite federal prosecutors’ concerns about the firms’ potential conflicts… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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United Talent Agency Inc. sued the Writers Guild of America in California federal court Thursday, becoming the second Hollywood talent shop to accuse the guild of breaking antitrust laws by orchestrating a boycott against payments that agents collect from pairing writers with studios… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 