CNH Industrial NV v. Reese

(United States Supreme Court) - Reversing a district court determination that inferences which once allowed the presumption that collective-bargaining agreements vested retiree benefits for life could be used to characterize them as ambiguous, permitting the...

Santomenno v. Transamerica Life Insurance Company

(United States Ninth Circuit) - Reversing a district court order denying a defense motion to dismiss an ERISA case alleging the breach of fiduciary duties in connection with a retirement plan and vacating subsequent class certification orders because a plan...

Bel Air Internet, LLC v. Morales

(California Court of Appeal) - Reversing a trial court order denying a motion to strike under the anti-SLAPP statute the claims of employees they said encouraged fellow employees to quit and sue for alleged employment violations rather than sign a release of the...

MacDonald v. CashCall, Inc.

(United States Third Circuit) - Affirming the district court's determination that an arbitration agreement that directed arbitration to an illusory forum was unenforceable and non-severable in a putative class action suit brought by a man against a lender he claimed...

Redfearn v. Trader Joes Company

(California Court of Appeal) - Reversing a district court judgment of dismissal in a case alleging the intentional interference with prospective economic advantage and unfair competition arising from broker relations with Trader Joe's because, although they couldn't...

Lusnak v. Bank of America, N.A.

(United States Ninth Circuit) - Reversing a district court dismissal of a putative class action holding that the National Banking Act did not preempt California's state escrow interest law and remanding so the plaintiff could proceed with California Unfair Competition...