A ‘David and Goliath’ battle over intellectual property ownership and rights to use Olympic insignia, language and customs, generated a branding war contested over a five-year period in the US federal court system, with many ongoing implications for the ownership of sports language. Several ...
“In many ways, the current staffing, deployment model, and size of the LAFD have not changed since the 1960s,” Crowley wrote. A federal judge in Texas has found that American Airlines violated both federal law and their fiduciary duty to their employees by using the company’s 401(k) ...
Our oceans present an unprecedented opportunity to be a key part of our fight against climate change. We need a Blue New Deal - alongside a Green New Deal - to rebuild our blue economy, protect and restore ocean habitat, and adapt in a climate changed wo
And she’s delivered for Massachusetts, helping secure federal resources to create good union jobs rebuilding roads and power clean energy projects around the Commonwealth. Never afraid to hold corporate executives’ feet to the fire, she successfully pressured two Wells Fargo CEOs into resigning ...
There are already clean energy job opportunities across the country. But with $10.7 trillion in federal and private investments, we can turn these opportunities into 10.6 million new, union jobs rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure and transitioning to the new clean energy economy. To support the...
Kelley Drye’s Communications Practice Group presents this tracker of active Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) petitions before the Federal...
I find it hilarious that anyone in the United States government, which has a Federal Reserve that has added nearly $2 trillion to its balance sheet in the service of cramming down the value of the dollar, can with a straight face accuse other nations of currency manipulation. In practice in...
My Dad never talked much about his years of service in CBI (to me or to anyone) and I never pressed much to hear about them. Unfortunately he passed ten years before I began work on these pages. As a result, as I compiled these pages as a tribute to him, I had mostly only ...
More on DeVos: DeVos and the Department of Education were held in civil contempt by a federal judge in late October and ordered to pay damages to student borrowers who took out loans to attend a now defunct for-profit college. The judge had previously ordered the Department of Education to...
I lost that fight in 2005, and working families paid the price. But I didn’t stop fighting to hold the financial industry accountable and to help American families. I started laying the groundwork for new protections for credit card users and in 2007proposed the idea of a new federal agen...