The Diane B. Allen Equal Pay Act takes effect on July 1, 2018, giving New Jersey one of the strongest equal pay laws in the country and permitting plaintiffs in employment discrimination cases to recover substantial damages. The Act is not limited to gender, but protects all employees from pay discrimination based on that individual’s race, creed, color, national origin, nationality, ancestry,…
On March 23, 2018, the Supreme Court of California reversed its previous position and held that “universities have a special relationship with their students and a duty to protect them from foreseeable violence during curricular activities.” The Facts of the Case In Regents of the University of California v. Rosen, a student at UCLA, Katherine Rosen alleged that the University and…
Partner Reveals Her Identity and Brings New Claims of Retaliation and Defamation Against Firm WASHINGTON, April 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Late last night, the Plaintiff in Jane Doe v. Proskauer filed an Amended Complaint removing the Doe designation and revealing that the Plaintiff is Proskauer partner Connie Bertram, head of the Firm’s Washington, DC Labor & Employment practice and co-head…
The False Claims Act establishes liability against persons who submit false claims for payment to the Government. It allows individuals who know about such fraud against the Government to file a lawsuit on behalf of the Government and to share in the proceeds of a recovery. So how does a person know if a claim for payment is a “false…
In an effort to enhance investor protections, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is proposing a new rule – Regulation Best Interest – that may come as a surprise to some investors. The SEC’s proposed rule requires your stockbroker to act in your best interest at the time he or she recommends an investment to you, something that the average…
Did you know that, except in a few unusual circumstances, lenders and bank loan officers do NOT owe you a duty to act in your best interest? Did you know that it is legal for them to offer you, and even recommend, a loan that you are not equipped to payback? Oftentimes, when people decide to take out a loan,…
“We need not leave our common sense at the doorstep when we interpret a statute,” wrote a four-Justice plurality of the Supreme Court in Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, 490 U.S. 228, 241 (1989), the seminal ruling that gender stereotyping by an employer is actionable as sex discrimination under Title VII. And yet, nearly three decades later, courts often do leave common…
Suit alleges that Home Depot Places Employees in Poorly Performing Funds and Causes Employees to Overpay for Robo Investment Advice ATLANTA, April 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — and Blumenthal Nordrehaug Bhowmik De Blouw LLP filed a class complaint today in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Georgia, alleging that Home Depot violates basic fiduciary duties under ERISA and…
While whistleblowers already have several means to report fraud to the federal government—including the False Claims Act, the IRS whistleblower program, and the SEC and CFTC whistleblower programs—there is a new, bipartisan, fraud-fighting law on the books that rewards whistleblowers for valuable information in the auto industry. Since late 2015, the Motor Vehicle Safety Whistleblower Act (MVSWA) has offered monetary…
We want to share with you a disturbing tale we heard recently from an investor in a private investment fund. We share this to alert you to “red flags” that signal the high likelihood of investor fraud. If you can spot them, you can better protect yourself from financial predators. The enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act ushered in a new…