A class action lawsuit has been filed against the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority on behalf of nine African American men who say the agency’s criminal background screening policy violates their civil rights.
Judge Koh, the California federal judge overseeing the antitrust class action claiming Google Inc., Apple Inc., Intel Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc. illegally agreed not to poach each other’s engineers set April 9, 2015, as the trial start date.
We previously blogged about how Federal District Judge Koh ordered four leading tech companies to come up with more money to settle a class-action lawsuit that accuses them of conspiring against their own employees.
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh rejected as too low a $324.5 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit alleging Intel, Google and Apple conspired with several other technology companies to block their top workers from getting better job offers.
A lawsuit against Apple filed by former employees was certified as a class action.
Earlier on this blog, we wrote about a class action the Oakland Cheerleaders had brought against their employer, the Oakland Raiders, to recover overtime.
We received an excellent ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in the FedEx case. We have been representing the Oregon drivers in this class action for almost 10 years.
Anheuser-Busch InBev has been hit with a $5 million lawsuit by a pair of its employees who say the beer-brewing giant failed to pay its truck drivers for overtime hours and did not allow them to take meal and rest breaks.
In 2006, former employees of Price Waterhouse filed a putative class action alleging that when they were paid a lump sum distribution of their benefits under Price Waterhouse’s retirement benefit plan before age 65, Price Waterhouse’s calculations didn’t meet Employee Retirement Income Security Act standards.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Corp. advisers may be in for a mid-year bonus following a $6.9 million class action settlement regarding overtime pay.
The New York Jets became the fourth NFL team to be hit with a lawsuit by its cheerleaders this year when a former member of the club’s “Flight Crew” kicked off a putative class action Tuesday in New Jersey alleging her pay amounted to much less than minimum wage.
Former Buffalo Bills cheerleaders, known as the Jills, filed a lawsuit against the football team for failing to pay them in compliance with New York State minimum wage laws.
A National Labor Relations Board judge ruled that Sprouts Farmers Markets LLC had violated federal labor law by requiring its workers to sign an arbitration agreement containing a class waiver.
In a stunning ruling that could revolutionize college sports, a federal agency said Wednesday that football players at Northwestern University can create the nation’s first union of college athletes.
Lawsuits filed by employees of McDonald’s Corp. restaurants in California, New York and Michigan accused the company of failing to pay overtime and erasing hours from time records and denying workers meal and rest breaks.
The Cincinnati Bengals organization was sued in a putative class action in Ohio federal court alleging it denies its cheerleaders minimum wage, less than a month after current and former members of the Oakland Raiders cheer squad filed suit over similar allegations.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has lost its attempt to appeal a New York federal judge’s refusal to dismiss a putative class action over the law firm’s alleged failure to pay overtime to temporary attorneys.
A class action lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against Les Schwab Tire Centers for allegedly violating Washington State wage and hour laws.
A California federal district court judge on Thursday rejected the attempt by JPMorgan Chase & Co. to stop two former appraisers from arbitrating wage-and-hour claims on a classwide basis, holding that it wasn’t in the court’s purview to decide whether their agreement authorized class proceedings.
The Ninth Circuit on Friday rejected the attempt of U.S. Securities Associates, Inc. to decertify a class of security guards claiming they were not paid for meal breaks they allegedly were forced to take on-duty.
