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LITIGATION REPORT,  June 2011

Recent Decisions

AT & T Mobility v. Concepcion (United States Supreme Court) 

  • Arguing Against Per Se Invalidation of Class Action Waivers in Consumer Form Arbitration Agreements

Joulé, Inc. v. Simmons and Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)

  • Defending Arbitration Provisions in Employment Agreements

Entergy Nuclear Generation Company v. Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (Massachusetts Appeals Court)

  • Opposing an Unauthorized Expansion of Regulatory Authority

Pending Cases

IMS Health Inc. v. Sorrell (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit)

  • Supporting Businesses’ First Amendment Rights to Buy and Sell Information for Commercial Purposes

Brelin-Penney v. Encore Images, Inc. (Massachusetts Appeals Court)

  • Opposing an Administrative or Judicial Expansion of the Classes of Persons Protected from Handicap Discrimination Under Mass. G.L. c. 151B

Hall v. Department of Environmental Protection (Massachusetts Division of Administrative Law Appeals)

  • Opposing Regulatory Encroachment on Coastal Property Rights

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes (United States Supreme Court)

  • Opposing Certification of a Class Based on Potentially Unreliable Expert Testimony

Rosnov v. Molloy (Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)

  • Opposing Retroactive Application of the Mandatory Treble Damages Provision of the Massachusetts Wage Act

Kaplan V. First Hartford Corporation and another (Federal Court of Appeals for the First Circuit)

  • Arguing Against an Expansive Definition of "Oppression" Under Maine's Business Corporation Act

Connolly V. Massachusetts Division of Unemployment Assistance and Verizon New England, Inc. (Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)

  • Opposing Eligibility for Unemployment Assistance of an Employee Who Voluntarily Quit in Return for an Incentive Pacakage

 

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