SAN JOSE, Calif. — A federal court in California tossed securities claims against Apple that argued the tech giant used illegal anti-poaching agreements so other companies could not solicit its employees. Some of the claims are time-barred while others are dismissed for failure to show proof the agreements are clearly illegal.
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A federal court in Georgia declined to dismiss a former police captain’s lawsuit alleging he was fired because he investigated three female officers’ sexual harassment complaints against the former chief of the Savannah State University Police Department. He showed evidence of a causal relationship between his protected activity and his termination, as well as evidence that his termination’s official reason was mere pretext.
FRESNO, Calif. — Reluctantly issuing summary judgment in a case that's been under submission since 2017 over a California law that's been repealed since 2020, a federal judge found the law violated farm owners' equal protection rights because carveouts that excluded them were included to appease the United Farm Workers union.
ATLANTA — The Eleventh Circuit reversed the lower court’s finding in favor of O’Reilly Auto Parts, which employed a deaf man who argued the auto shop violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to provide him with a sign language interpreter on several occasions and failing to text him summaries of nightly safety meetings. His inability to participate in the meetings may have adversely affected the terms of his employment.
LOS ANGELES — A federal court in California compelled arbitration between Raising Cane’s and a class of employees who say the fast-food chain did not pay them full wages, did not compensate their meal breaks and rest periods, and did not reimburse their necessary business expenses. No class action waiver applied and the arbitration agreement is not procedurally unconscionable.
Uber and Lyft drivers had staged noisy but peaceful demonstrations outside Walz's office in the Capitol in recent days to demand that the governor sign the bill.
The ruling revives the appeal from a corrections officer who is part of a group facing a $700,000 judgment connected to a jail cell attack.
PHILADELPHIA — A federal court in Pennsylvania advanced an electrical union’s False Claims Act violation lawsuit against three electrical companies, which allegedly misclassified employees to justify paying them lower wages.
HELENA, Mont. — The Montana Supreme Court answered a certified question from the Ninth Circuit concerning whether, in an action for wrongful discharge, an employer may defend a firing solely for reasons given in a discharge letter. The state’s high court said yes, the letter suffices and reasons other than those in the letter are “irrelevant, and thus inadmissible.”
DENVER — A class of Colorado Amazon delivery drives accuse the company of forcing them to urinate in bottles and defecate in bags because of a lack of adequate rest and break time.
NEW ORLEANS — A federal court in Louisiana declined to dismiss a pest control company’s employee’s religious discrimination lawsuit filed after he refused to get a mandated Covid-19 vaccination. He says he was fired despite his Catholic faith, which allegedly keeps him from being injected from a vaccine derived from aborted fetal cell lines, and that his manager told him “The Pope wants you to take it.”
