requirement to provide sexual harassment training. Finally, after a court finds a verdict in a civil action, it typically awards fees and costs to the prevailing party. Defendants in sexual harassment lawsuits are now prohibited from collecting fees and costs unless the court finds the suit was ...
With these public nuisance lawsuits in their infancy, along with a similar one brought by New York City, the U.S. Supreme Court should hear the case against the paint manufacturers. The Supreme Court could go a long way in halting the onslaught of baseless lawsuits cropping up across the co...
Missed meal breaks are a common complaint in overtime lawsuits. According to California labor law, an employee who works for more than five hours per day must receive a meal break of not less than 30 minutes. If the workday is no more than six hours, the meal break may be waived by ...
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a newamendmentwas added to the state constitution specifying that only marriage between a man and a woman would be recognized by the state. Several lawsuits challenging the proposition were filed. Although the ban was upheld by the California Supreme Court in May 2009, it was ultimately overturne...
3.1. California wage/hour lawsuits If your employer violates wage and hour laws by failing to pay you the minimum wage, failing to pay required overtime or failing to provide meal and rest breaks, then you have the right to sue under the California Labor Code. California wage/hour lawsuits...
But his work came under heavy criticism after the state audit for having assigned contracts in haste that precipitated lawsuits–mostly from the improvident failure of securing land for building track. (Perhaps Newsom suggested a reduction of the scope of the project–“Let’s be real”–to ...
Responding to eviction lawsuits is not necessarily a simple feat, supporters of the new law have argued, particularly for people struggling to pay their rent. Tenants need to obtain hard-to-find legal aid or an expensive attorney to complete their defense filing accurately, and then they have ...
“Bayer AG, after more than a year of talks, agreed to pay as much as $10.9 billion to settle close to 100,000 U.S. lawsuits claiming that its widely-used weed killer Roundup caused cancer, resolving litigation that has pummeled the company’s share price,”Reuters reports. ...
"We talked about the 122 lawsuits we were involved in in the Trump administration. We talked about the special session and how we're going to move aggressively, to be proactive and not reactive to the incoming Trump administration,” he said. “We talked about the playbook that's very fami...