Legal Alert, Labor and Employment Law
2021 | Legal Alert, Labor and Employment Law
On May 18, 2021, Santa Clara County updated its Order of the Health Officer and FAQs to require, effective June 1, 2021, that employers determine the vaccination status of all “personnel.”
Case Summary, Labor and Employment Law
2021 | Case Summary, Labor and Employment Law
Legal Alert, Insurance Coverage
2021 | Legal Alert, Insurance Coverage
The Texas Supreme Court recently increased policyholders’ influence over an insurer’s right to settle a third-party claim for less than policy limits.
Legal Alert, Labor and Employment Law
2021 | Legal Alert, Labor and Employment Law
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held today that the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994 (“FAAAA”) does not preempt application of California’s Assembly Bill 5 (“AB 5”), codified as amended at Labor Code section 2775, against motor carriers.
Legal Alert, Labor and Employment Law
2021 | Legal Alert, Labor and Employment Law
Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 93 into law. The bill requires employers in specified hospitality and business services-related industries to offer to rehire certain workers who were laid off during the pandemic, before offering those positions to new hires, and to notify individuals not being rehired due to lack of qualifications about the employer’s decision to hire another worker.
Case Summary, Labor and Employment Law
2021 | Case Summary, Labor and Employment Law
Article, Business Litigation
2021 | Article, Business Litigation
One year after COVID caused companies to send droves of employees home to work remotely, how well did those employees do at protecting their clients’ and their company’s confidential information and what can they do better as they continue to work from home?
Legal Alert, Business Litigation
2021 | Legal Alert, Business Litigation
The Supreme Court’s Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid decision finally settled the confusion over what equipment constitutes an automatic telephone dialing system (a robodialer) that can violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).
Legal Alert, Insurance Coverage
2021 | Legal Alert, Insurance Coverage
The Texas Supreme Court has accepted certified questions from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to clarify Texas’s eight-corners rule for determining the existence of a duty to defend.