Monthly Archives: April, 2021

City Employee Pleaded Guilty After Submitting False Environmental Tests

At a hearing on Thursday, Jay Earnest Niday, who worked with the Sioux City Wastewater Treatment Plant, pleaded guilty to counts of conspiracy and...

Labor Law in 2021 with Kathryn Hatfield

Participation in labor unions is less than half of what it was 40 years ago. It has seen an uptick in...

ADT Sued Over Allegations of Surreptitious Spying

On Friday,  a consumer filed a class-action complaint in the Southern District of Florida against ADT LLC doing business as ADT Security Services “based...

Plaintiffs Oppose Google’s Motion to Relate Gambling App Cases

Last week in the Northern District of California, plaintiffs John Coffee, Mei-Ling Montanez, and minor S.M., filed an opposition to Google’s motion to consider...

Ruling on Dismissal in Business Tort Case Against Blue Cross Changes Little

Last Friday, Judge Holly L. Teeter considered but disposed of Orchestrate HR Inc. and Vivature Inc.’s (together, Vivature) added claims that Blue Cross Blue...

Supreme Court Sides with Georgia in Florida’s Interstate Waters Suit

Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivered an Apr. 1 Supreme Court opinion concerning a dispute between states, wherein Florida blamed its upstream neighbor for the...

BASF Accused of Infringing Patent Used in Ethanol Plants

Kurita America Inc., a Minnesota corporation, claimed in a Northern District of Illinois complaint on Thursday that BASF sells products that use its patented...

Federal Circuit Dismisses Hawaiian Telecom’s $27M Subsidy Dispute

Last Thursday, the Federal Circuit ruled on a challenge brought by Sandwich Isles Communications Inc. (SIC) against the federal government over its request that...