New England Biz Law Update

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is poised to implement compensation rules that corporate attorneys say will make it hard for public companies to hire talented executives.

Tagged with: Jan. 30 2012 issue

Sometimes at the U.S. Supreme Court, words and labels mean everything. Case in point, the justices recently parsed the wording of a securities law provision to determine whether to label it a statute of limitations or a statute of repose.

Tagged with: Jan. 30 2012 issue

A mandatory arbitration provision in an employment agreement was enforceable even though it drastically shortened the employee’s limitation period for bringing a claim while incorporating outside terms that the employer could change unilaterally, a Superior Court judge in Massachusetts has ...

Tagged with: Jan. 30 2012 issue

A truck driver who brought a purported class action alleging that companies he worked for had violated state and federal wage laws by misclassifying drivers as independent contractors could also sue a management-services firm for providing the companies with independent ...

Tagged with: Jan. 30 2012 issue

The city of Providence could require hotels to retain their employees for three months in the event of a change in ownership, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has found.

Tagged with: Jan. 30 2012 issue

A technology company could not deny a state Wage Act claim brought by its sales director who resided in Florida, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge has ruled.

Tagged with: Nov. 30 2011 issue

A group of hospital employees who allegedly were dissuaded from seeking payment for work done during meal breaks and before and after their shifts had grounds to pursue a class action claim under the Fair Labor Standards Act, a U.S. ...

Tagged with: Nov. 30 2011 issue

An employer that repeatedly reprimanded an employee after she complained of racial discrimination could not be held liable for retaliation, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has determined.

Tagged with: Nov. 30 2011 issue

An unsuccessful applicant for a promotion could not hold her employer liable under a theory that the employer impliedly admitted she was qualified by allowing her to advance to the interview and exam stages of the process, the 1st U.S. ...

Tagged with: Nov. 30 2011 issue

Copyright infringement cases targeting the hosts of websites are notoriously hard to win. But a Boston law firm recently convinced a South Carolina jury that a search engine optimization firm should pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages after ...

Tagged with: Nov. 30 2011 issue