Public Policy
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An Apple engineer was arrested on the eve of a trip to China and charged in California federal court with stealing company secrets related to self-driving car technology, court records show, marking the second Apple engineer accused of stealing its autonomous car technology in recent months… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A proposed class of Walmart Inc. employees sued the retail giant on Monday in Illinois state court, alleging that the company illegally collected their fingerprints without consent, days after the state’s Supreme Court ruled plaintiffs don’t need to allege actual harm to mount such suits… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Staples Inc. and Essendant Inc. can go forward with a proposed merger valued at almost $483 million after agreeing to include a “firewall” in the deal blocking Staples from accessing certain Essendant sales data, a divided Federal Trade Commission announced on Monday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Fairfield University and other religious entities said they would pay more than $60 million to settle allegations that they failed to stop a now-convicted child molester from sexually abusing dozens of boys at a school for disadvantaged children in Haiti, according to court filings made Friday… Read this piece at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 