Monthly Archives: August, 2021

New York Driver Brings Employment Status Misclassification Suit Against Lyft

A Monday filing in the Southern District of New York claims ride-hailing company Lyft misclassified its drivers as independent contractors when, under New York...

Samsung Accused of Infringing 360 Degree Camera Patent

360Heros Inc. filed a patent infringement suit against Samsung Electronics America Inc. and Samsung Austin Semiconductor LLC on Tuesday alleging that the defendants infringe...

Former Sanderson Farms Employee Seeks $1M In Injury Negligence Lawsuit

A Sanderson Farms employee claimed in a lawsuit that the company fired her immediately after she received a serious work injury, breaching several federal...

Campbell’s Soup Employee Claims She Was Wrongly Fired After Contracting COVID-19

Monica Alvarez, a former Campbell’s Soup Company employee, alleged in a complaint filed last week that the company wrongfully fired her for allegedly answering...

GAO Report Claims XL Pipeline Led to Oil Spills

The U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report on Monday which said that the spills from the Keystone XL pipeline have been significantly...

Health Care Services Group Pays $6M to Settle SEC Violations

In a press release filed Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it had settled with Health Care Services Group for $6 million,...

Court Sides with AbbVie by Blocking Biosimilar Patent Dismissal Bid

In an opinion issued on Monday, a Chicago court sided with drug maker AbbVie in its lawsuit against Icelandic biotechnology company Alvotech h.f. The...

Drone Law with Kathryn Rattigan

It's not a matter of if, but when. Of course, I'm talking about a sky speckled with commercial drones, bringing us our ...