New England Biz Law Update

The phrase “workplace violence” brings to mind images of angry former employees, armed to the teeth and hell-bent on seeking revenge against those who wronged them. But employment attorneys and workplace violence experts say that this stereotype is just the ...

A recent California Supreme Court decision ruled that distributors and users of information on the Internet cannot be liable for defamation and are immune from suit under the Communications Decency Act. The holding reversed an appeals court decision and sided ...

Another day, another story of stolen laptops filled with personal information. The spate of thefts began in May 2005 with the laptop of a Justice Department employee which contained the information of 80,000 fellow department employees. This was followed in ...

10 verdicts - and the jury is still out

The federal government can’t tax the money a plaintiff received as compensation for emotional distress and other intangible injuries, the D.C. Circuit recently ruled, holding that §104(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code is unconstitutional as applied. The decision has reignited ...

A recent study shows that 78 percent of all employees access the Internet while at work for entertainment and personal use. Burstek, a company that provides employee Internet management software, recently released the results of its 2005 Internet Usage Study, ...

In a disturbing development for employers, employees are increasingly filing lawsuits under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and accompanying state laws.

The U.S. Supreme Court created new hurdles for patent holders seeking to enjoin their competition in a closely watched decision decided recently. In a unanimous opinion authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, the court in eBay, Inc. v. MercExchange (No. 05-130) ...

'Assembly line diagnoses' in silica suits unmasked

Pregnancy bias is a continuing problem for women in the workplace, according to both employment attorneys and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s statistics. The reasons for this are varied. Ernie Haffner, an attorney in the EEOC’s Washington, D.C. Office ...