The United States District Court for the District of Nevada recently determined that it had personal jurisdiction over an airline for injury arising on a flight originating in the forum state.

In August of 2016, Michael Mennella arrived at Miami International Airport to travel to Las Vegas, Nevada on an American Airlines flight.

Armstrong flew on Hawaiian Airlines from Kauai to Brisbane. In Brisbane, he received wheelchair service to baggage claim, but the Qantas employee who—pursuant to a ground handling agreement— provided the wheelchair service ...

Those of us who do coverage work, especially in aviation, understand the difficulties insurers face when coverage questions arise from aircraft accidents.

New York Assembly member Annette Robinson last week introduced A02499 to amend section 198 of the New York Labor Law.

Payments made pursuant to a confidential settlement of sexual harassment allegations will no longer be a permissible tax deduction for business under a little-noticed provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Many employers aren’t aware that New Jersey affords unpaid leave and job protection for emergency responders when states of emergency are declared.

Republican lawmakers introduced a legislative package on January 22, 2013, which would make Pennsylvania the 25th right-to-work state.

On May 25, 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") adopted final rules implementing the whistleblower provisions of the Dodd-Frank financial reform regulations, which provide that individuals who report potential securities violations to the SEC may be entitled to a reward of between 10 and 30 percent of any monetary recovery exceeding $1 million.

Modern marketing professionals have access to an astounding amount of information on consumers’ tastes, preferences and habits.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently granted certiorari in a case that could have far-reaching impact in litigation involving federal claims for attorney’s fees.

On June 28, 2017, then Philadelphia District Attorney R. Seth Williams faced a twenty-nine count indictment with a potential term of imprisonment of at least twenty years.

Consistent with the preemption principle of the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, the Ninth Circuit recently held that the Federal Arbitration Act preempts California’s so-called Broughton-Cruz rule, which exempts claims for "public injunctive relief" from arbitration.

Rule 23(f) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure allows a party to petition for permission to appeal a class certification decision within 14 days after entry of an order denying or granting class certification.

When Plaintiff checked in for her fully-booked flight, she was assigned a middle seat, which did not accommodate her medical needs.

In August 2018, Marcus Todd Samson piloted a Piper PA-28R into a radio tower, killing himself and his daughter, and destroying the radio tower.

A flight attendant on a Spirit Airlines flight asked a passenger seated in an emergency exit row to stop using his cell phone while she conducted the exit row safety briefing.

Cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 are finally declining in New York State and, consequently, effective February 10, 2022, the indoor mask-or-vaccination requirement for businesses in New York State has been lifted.

In Karasek v. Regents of the University of California, No. 3:15-cv-03717-WHO (N. D. Cal. April 12, 2018), the court granted summary judgment to the University of California (UC) on the plaintiff's Title IX claims.

New Jersey's Appellate Court recently ruled that a wrongful termination lawsuit by a former hospital worker who divulged patient information can proceed.