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In a significant victory for California employers, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated a $102 million award against a major retailer in a suit alleging that the employer violated the California Labor Code’s wage statement and meal-break provisions.
good-rulings dept Mon, Apr 18th 2011 12:53pm — Mike MasnickPaul Alan Levy points us to a good ruling in the Southern District of NY district court concerning yet another mass infringement lawsuit filing (pdf and also embedded below), this time by Digiprotect. The ruling touches on a few different issues, and actually may be quite useful, in light of some other recent rulings. Also, if you recognize the name Digiprotect, that may be because it was heavily involved in many of these kinds of mass infringement lawsuits in Europe, helping, in some ways, to pioneer the strategy of suing a ton of ...
nicely-done dept Mon, Apr 11th 2011 7:01pm — Mike Masnick There was a lot of attention paid to Judge Beryl Howell's decision to allow some mass copyright infringement lawsuits to move forward with all the defendants lumped together (and her bizarre claim that this was to benefit the defendants). Soon after that, it came out that Howell had very recently been an RIAA lobbyist, which certainly called her objectivity on such cases into question. Even though neither of the cases she was working on involved the RIAA, the issues were clearly quite similar, and such a ruling would obviously benefi...
Dramatically. >> literally, this can't be real. she knows something about water issues. ironically, she's an attorney with the environmental protection agency. >> as a person, i know something's wrong here. as an attorney, what can i do about it? but i don't think it takes a lot for me to say you know, $7,000 for a month use of water by one person in a small home. it's just crazy. >> where do things stand now? >> lawsuits. as you can imagine. residents and commercial properties have filed class lawsuits against thety and contractors and so far, no resolution. but the previous management team a...