Business Law
(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...
Business Law
(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...
Business Law
(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...
Business Law
(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...
Business Law
(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...
Business Law
(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...