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September 13, 2019
In recent months, two courts—a federal district court in Maryland and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (encompassing Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware) have ruled that states enjoy “sovereign immunity” to lawsuits by pipeline developers to condemn state-owned lands. See In re…
August 28, 2019
On August 12, 2019, a federal court in West Virginia ruled that plaintiffs cannot use SMCRA’s citizen suit provision to challenge the validity of a surface mining permit in a suit against the permittee. Order. The Plaintiffs, a group of anti-mining organizations, relied on what has come to be known…
August 27, 2019
Third Circuit Highlights the Importance of E-Discovery Expert in a Civil Action Disrupted by Spoliation
On July 10, 2019, in GN Netcom, Inc. v. Plantronics, Inc.,[1] the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit granted a motion for a new trial based upon the lower court’s refusal to…
August 27, 2019
After Mary was fired from her warehousing job at Mars, Inc. in 2013, she filed a complaint with OSHA claiming she was fired in retaliation for blowing the whistle on food safety issues. After an investigation, the OSHA investigator dismissed her complaint in February 2016.
Mary’s…
September 13, 2019
In recent months, two courts—a federal district court in Maryland and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (encompassing Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware) have ruled that states enjoy “sovereign immunity” to lawsuits by pipeline developers to condemn state-owned lands. See In re…
August 28, 2019
On August 12, 2019, a federal court in West Virginia ruled that plaintiffs cannot use SMCRA’s citizen suit provision to challenge the validity of a surface mining permit in a suit against the permittee. Order. The Plaintiffs, a group of anti-mining organizations, relied on what has come to be known…
August 27, 2019
Third Circuit Highlights the Importance of E-Discovery Expert in a Civil Action Disrupted by Spoliation
On July 10, 2019, in GN Netcom, Inc. v. Plantronics, Inc.,[1] the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit granted a motion for a new trial based upon the lower court’s refusal to…
August 27, 2019
After Mary was fired from her warehousing job at Mars, Inc. in 2013, she filed a complaint with OSHA claiming she was fired in retaliation for blowing the whistle on food safety issues. After an investigation, the OSHA investigator dismissed her complaint in February 2016.
Mary’s…
