Labor & Employment Law

MetLife Day at the U.S. Supreme Court
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Glenn, No. 06-923. MetLife v. Glenn is a case from the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals about conflicts of interest for ERISA administrators...

MetLife v Glenn in a Nutshell
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court is holding oral argument in MetLife v. Glenn, the case that will supposedly tell us once and for all what the effect is on ERISA litigation when the party who has to pay ERISA governed benefits is also the one who decides whether to pay those benefits...

Patently-O Bits and Bytes No. 46: Supreme Court Edition
In re Nuijten: The applicant has filed a petition for certiorari to overturn the Federal Circuit?s decision that a man made signal is not patentable. Professor Duffy filed a ?law professor? amicus supporting the position which I signed...

U.S. Files Amicus Brief in Bartlett Case
Once again, the U.S. has filed an amicus brief on the opposite side of civil rights organizations....

Booker/Fanfan Briefs Filed Today by Petitioner United States, by amici USSC and Senators Hatch, Kennedy and Feinstein
Briefs filed today in Booker and Fanfan: United States' brief in Booker and Fanfan, (via Sentencing Law and Policy); U.S. Sentencing Commission's amicus brief in Booker and Fanfan; and amicus brief by Senators Hatch, Kennedy and Feinstein which Professor Berman has posted at Sentencing Law and Policy...

Amicus groups oppose feds' use of computer fraud act in MySpace case
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, Public Citizen and more than a dozen law professors have filed an amicus brief to dismiss the federal government's criminal case against a Missouri woman who used a false identity...

COBRA Continuation of Healthcare Coverage after Layoff
Pensions and Health Care Coverage for Dislocated Workers

ERISA Pension Benefits after Termination
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974

Yellow Freight Pension Plan
alleging ERISA violations

Brown Greer et al.
alleging that the six law firms handling the Vioxx settlement failed to provide money for reimbursements to lien rights of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) health plans.

MRV Communications, Inc. 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud
MRV Communications, Inc. 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

Texron Inc 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud
Texron Inc 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

MGM Mirage 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud
MGM Mirage 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

Rentech, Inc, 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud
Rentech, Inc, 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud