Page 208 - Second Circuit News Today

In Abbott v. Comme Des Garcons, Ltd., former employees of the Japanese fashion label's retail store in New York alleged that their regularly scheduled workweek consisted of more than 40 hours of work.

This past Friday, the Second Circuit reversed a lower court’s denial of a motion to compel arbitration in a putative consumer class action against fintech company Klarna. Edmundson v....

This Littler Lightbulb highlights some of the more significant employment law developments at the U.S. Supreme Court and federal courts of appeal in the last month.

The U.S. Supreme Court last Friday agreed to hear an appeal by the National Rifle Association of a case in which it accuses a New York insurance regulator

A major free speech case

On October 27, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied a petition for a panel rehearing en banc in a False Claims Act (FCA) suit that was dismissed in 2020. The...

The U.S. Supreme Court last Friday agreed to hear an appeal by the National Rifle Association of a case in which it accuses a New York insurance regulator

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The Second Circuit on Friday sent a putative class action against fintech company Klarna Inc. to arbitration, reversing a district court's ruling after finding the plaintiff had "reasonably conspicuous notice" of the company's terms and conditions, which include a mandatory arbitration provision for disputes.

When public officials block commenters from their social media pages, are they acting “under color of” state law for purposes of 42 U.S.C. § 1983? Yesterday, October 31, 2023, the...