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ALLENTOWN – A former Child Custody Master for the Northampton County Court of Common Pleas alleges that over a nine-year period, she was subjected to systemic age/gender discrimination and retaliation by other court personnel before being fired last October.

It has been nearly a decade since some states began enacting changes to their equal pay statutes that appeared to some to differentiate those statues from the federal Equal Pay Act in significant ways.

On April 12, a unanimous Supreme Court held that issuers are not liable under Rule 10b-5(b) for "pure omissions."

Justice Sonia Sotomayor's opinion explains the difference between "pure omissions" and half-truths.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia is the latest court to weigh in on the continuing debate surrounding the scope of the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) as it applies to patient assistance programs (PAPs).

On April 12, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an important decision in the case of Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. v. Moab Partners, L.P., No. 22-1165.

Answering a precise question increasingly raised by securities fraud plaintiffs, the United States Supreme Court held in Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. v. Moab Partners that a failure...

On April 12, 2024, the US Supreme Court reversed the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s decision in Macquarie v. Moab Partners and held that a pure omission cannot form the...

In this week's "It's Debatable" segment, Rick Rosen and Charles Moster look at the court case National Rifle Association (NRA) v. Vullo and debate: Does the First Amendment permit adverse regulatory action against advocacy organizations because of their political views?

On April 12, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court limited an issuer's liability for securities fraud claims based on alleged omissions in SEC filings. The Court's unanimous decision in...