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The United States Supreme Court held in Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana that individual claims under California's Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) may be divided from the PAGA action and forced into arbitration, ...

Mass arbitration is a recent trend where companies are hit with thousands of identical consumer or employment arbitration claims. Led by a resourceful plaintiffs' bar...

The California Supreme Court is poised to resolve this split, but the order granting review gives little indication which way the Court may rule.

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A recent Federal Circuit case, Haggart v. United States, No. 21-1660 (June 22, 2022) determined that under the Uniform Relocation Act, like other fee-shifting statutes, attorneys' fees...

On May 25, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a guidance document intended to help pharmacists and wholesale drug distributors understand and comply with its final rule regarding the import of certain prescription drugs from Canada. The 2020 final rule, titled "Importation of Prescription Drugs," implemented Sections 804(b) through (h) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic…

This week, the Ninth Circuit addresses the employment status of job applicants made to take drug tests and the availability of an award of attorney's fees under Federal Rule...

Conducting criminal background checks on job candidates is a common practice for employers but one that raises a host of compliance concerns amid a series of federal, state, and local laws...

From mascara to microwave popcorn, and from water to wrappers, the glut of litigation related to the presence of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) has ...