Law

California Protects Pay by Gender, Is Race Next?

Just as California businesses begin to implement a law requiring equal pay for workers regardless of their gender, already the toughest of its kind in the nation, a state lawmaker is seeking to expand it to protect employees from racial discrimination. The proposal by Sen. Isadore Hall would build on California’s existing fair pay law by adding “race or ethnicity” to …


37-Year-Old Who Says She Can’t Get a Lawyer Job After Applying to 150 Firms Loses Her Lawsuit Against Her School

A jury has ruled against a 37-year-old graduate of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law who claimed that the school defrauded her when she attended nearly a decade ago, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. A San Diego, California, jury ruled 9-3 in favor of the school, handing a victory to TJSL — since civil cases in that state don’t require a unanimous jury vote. During the trial, a lawyer for …


Brazil Graft Crackdown Spurs Work for Lawyers, Corporate Change

In the midst of Brazil’s worst recession in decades, lawyer Thiago Jabor Pinheiro switched firms to focus full-time on one of the only booming fields in the scandal-plagued country: compliance and corporate ethics. For Pinheiro, a massive corruption investigation unfolding at state-run oil firm Petrobras offers a golden opportunity. The scandal broke just as a tough new anti- …



Women in New York Are Fighting the Tampon Tax With a Class Action Lawsuit

Among women, the tampon tax hasn’t been very popular, to say the least. So today, five women in New York filed a class action lawsuit to fight the much-maligned tax.

The complaint argues that sales tax for tampons and sanitary pads violates state law, which declares that medical items shouldn’t be taxed. According to the complaint, the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance “imposes a double standard when defining medical items for women and men,” since medical items also used by men — like Rogaine, foot powder, dandruff shampoo, ChapStick, facial wash, adult diapers, and incontinence pads — are tax-free. Tampons and pads, on the other hand, are exclusively used by women.


Trump’s Modeling Agency Broke Immigration Laws, Attorneys Say

Donald Trump’s model wife on her path to citzenship Donald Trump’s modeling agency has profited from the very same visa program that the presidential candidate himself has slammed — and appears to have violated federal law in the process, a CNNMoney investigation has found. Throughout his campaign, Trump has loudly opposed the practice of U.S. companies using foreign workers instead of …


VW Institutional Investors File $3.61 Billion Suit in Germany

BERLIN Almost 300 institutional investors in Volkswagen have filed a multi-billion euro suit against the carmaker for what they see as breaches of its capital markets duty in the emissions scandal, the law firm representing them said. The lawsuit, for damages of 3.256 billion euro ($3.61 billion), was filed at a regional court in Braunschweig in VW’s home state of Lower Saxony on Monday and is …


Garland Could Claim Supreme Court’s Ideological Center

Merrick Garland not only has a chance to be the U.S. Supreme Court’s next justice. He also stands to become the most important one. In a career highlighted by oversight of the Oklahoma City bombing prosecutions and 19 years on a federal appeals court in Washington, Garland established a moderate record that could put him squarely in the middle of the often-divided Supreme Court.


Angry Volkswagen Investors Are Coming After VW With $3.61 Billion Lawsuit

CEO Matthias Mueller makes a statement, following a meeting ahead of deadline to inform U.S. regulators on plans to comply with standards, at the VW factory in Wolfsburg, Germany November 20, 2015. Almost 300 institutional investors in Volkswagen have filed a multi-billion euro suit against the carmaker for what they see as breaches of its capital markets duty …


VW Investors File Multi-Billion Dollar Suit in Germany

Almost 300 institutional investors in Volkswagen have filed a multi-billion dollar suit against the carmaker for what they claim were breaches of its stock market duty in the emissions cheating scandal. The lawsuit, for damages of €3.3bn ($3.6bn), was filed at a regional court in Braunschweig in VW’s home state of Lower Saxony on Monday and is being brought by 278 investors from all over the …