So why haven’t these cases settled? Trials are public and verdicts garner headlines. What makes Conagra willing to risk the reputation of its market-leading PAM cooking spray devolving into the Ford Pinto of food products?
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The lawsuits say that an employer runs afoul of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act when it exercises discretion over these forfeitures to benefit itself over workers. According to the lawsuits, the companies used forfeitures to reduce the money they’d otherwise have to contribute to their plans, instead of using it to reduce the administrative expenses borne by workers.
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WeWork’s Chapter 11 filing adds to a growing list of venture-capital favorites that have gone bankrupt, giving investment firms a fresh reason to more thoroughly vet companies before pouring money into them.
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Wall Street's top regulator must correct "defects" in a new rule on share buybacks adopted earlier this year, a federal appeals court has ruled, marking a partial win for powerful trade groups waging the legal challenge against it.
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It’s easy around these parts to get deeply cynical about law and justice and the federal judiciary. But sometimes there’s a story like this and a direct, scathing opinion like this.
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The volatility and complexity within cybersecurity and data privacy will continue to increase in 2022, and the legal ramifications for companies that get beached.
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Marketers that do not comply with the Michigan Children’s Protection Registry Act are subject to fines and penalties.
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The new rule restores the twenty percent cap and imposes an additional limit of thirty consecutive minutes of non-tipped work.
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In many situations, Biglaw firms can actually be a liability to clients, and it is not just their high fees.
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While the state does depend on local police agencies to help enforce this rule, the state can levy fines against businesses that are not making an effort to enforce the mask mandate.
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