By Lise Gelernter (Member, National Academy of Arbitrators) On March 4, 2021, the West Virginia Legislature approved a law that outlaws public employee...
In late January 2021, the Supreme Court issued a per curiam order in the Henry Schein v. Archer & White arbitrability case (No. 19-963), dismissing the...
A State Supreme Court and a Federal District Court in New Jersey Answer Two Questions the U.S. Supreme Court Left Unanswered About the FAA Exemption for...
With bi-coastal consistency, both the First Circuit (Boston) and Ninth Circuit (Seattle) Courts of Appeals recently ruled that “last mile” delivery drivers...
In a decision issued on July 31, 2020, the federal Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reminded the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) of the...
Uber Technologies Inc. v. Heller, 2020 SCC 16 (CanLII) Those who want to earn income as drivers for Uber’s food delivery services in Toronto Canada had to...
Donald J. Trump, his children, and the Trump Company are all defendants in a class action lawsuit in Federal District Court in New York in which the plaintiffs...
In one of the first lawsuits filed over working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic, the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) requested a federal...
In an echo of the February decision in the DoorDash case (Abernathy v. DoorDash, Docket No. C 19-007545), Senior District Judge Sandra Braun Armstrong required...
Many non-unionized companies now require employees and independent contractors to agree to arbitrate all their claims against the company instead of going to...
