A group of app-dispatched food delivery drivers have served Chicago-based GrubHub with a class action, saying the company has wrongly classified them as contractors, when they should qualify as employees under the law. Six people who have worked for GrubHub took aim June 28 in Chicago federal court against the web-based food delivery coordinator, arguing their classification as independent …
Small Texas towns struggled with sex offender laws RHOME, Texas — At least 23 Texas towns have now repealed local sex offender ordinances after the threat of legal action forced many to strip their laws, or end up in court. Earlier this year, the small Wise County town of Rhome repealed its ordinance. Mayor Michelle Pittman says as a “general law” community of less than 5,000 people, they were …
The state of Wyoming is asking a federal judge to dismiss a revised lawsuit from a coalition of environmental groups who say the state Legislature didn’t go far enough this year in amending laws that would make trespassing to collect data a crime. A coalition of environmental, animal rights and other groups filed suit challenging the original Wyoming data-trespassing laws …