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Not many civil cases were released this week, so the list is short. This week's topics include bankruptcy, priority, construction, and insurance.

The court granted class certification in a high-profile disparate impact discrimination case against the Census Bureau in federal court in New York.

In its recent decision in Walchuk v Houghton, the Court of Appeal for Ontario clarified the interaction between the stay provisions of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and motions for contempt of court orders.

In this case, a majority of the Court of Appeal certified a global class action despite 98% of the proposed class members being non-residents of Ontario.

Florida Appeals Court Decisions: Week Of October 15 - 19, 2018

Hello everyone. Below are summaries of this week's Ontario Court of Appeal civil decisions.

Below are the summaries for this week's civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. There were several family law decisions.

As we enter into the fall, traditionally a very busy time for litigators, do not forget that the Court of Appeal continued to sit during the summer and released several important decisions. This month’s netletter contains decisions on class actions, insurance benefits, family law, commercial disputes and contempt proceedings.

The litigation in Kaplan is ongoing, but many employers have expressed widespread interest in the EEOC's intensive focus on how employers use criminal records and credit history information for employment purposes.

Liability management exercises (‘LMEs'), originally a phenomenon of the bond world, have spilled over to the senior secured leveraged finance market in the US for a number of years as a result of the prevalence...

Employers should continue to be mindful of, and comply with, the various laws that impact the use of criminal records in addition to Title VII, including state fair employment laws and federal and state fair credit reporting laws, such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Following are the summaries for this week's civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario.

A summary of recent developments in insurance, reinsurance and litigation law.

Determining how far beyond those core legislative functions official acts may still lie, therefore, remains open to question.

In April 2012, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued its updated enforcement guidance concerning how, in the EEOC's view, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) restricts an employer's discretion to consider criminal records relative to employment decisions.

The flurry of Fair Credit Reporting Act ("FCRA") class actions against employers started in or about 2012 and was not limited to California.