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The United States Supreme Court recently held that employers are entitled to assert an important defense to employees’ claims that they were forced to quit their jobs because of supervisors’ sexual harassment. The Court’s opinion in <I>Pennsylvania State Police v. Suders</I> recognized that an employer could be liable to a worker who resigned yet later proved that she was forced off the job because of sexual harassment.

On December 13, 2004, the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark decision concerning the contribution provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA).

During the past year or so, federal regulators and legislators have subjected the broadcast industry to unprecedented threats of punishment. This wave of increasingly aggressive sanctions and regulatory proposals has taken many forms.

Employers offer enhanced severance benefits in exchange for a release of claims by departing employees in order to avoid litigation. In two recent cases, however, an employer that thought it had "bought peace" with a departing employee instead found out that the employee’s release of claims was invalid and the employee could still sue.

Enacted to curb the growing nuisance of unsolicited commercial e-mail, or "spam," the "Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003," better known as the "CAN-SPAM Act," is barely three months old.

On February 24, 2004, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued a decision in an appeal arising out of the Kmart Corporation (Kmart) bankruptcy that may dramatically affect large and small business bankruptcy cases across the country.<SUP>1</SUP> The Seventh Circuit affirmed a United States District Court’s reversal of an order by the Bankruptcy Court in the Kmart bankruptcy case that had granted the debtor authority to pay in full prepetition claims of any vendor the deb

It is not surprising that local governments react to unpopular development trends, as well as unpopular developments, by re-thinking and re-writing existing zoning controls.

Borrowers facing foreclosure frequently resort to bankruptcy to protect their assets. The most popular counter-strategy of secured lenders is a motion to lift the automatic stay of section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code to enable the lender to foreclose its collateral under state law. This strategy is frequently successful, especially when the amount of the claim exceeds the value of the collateral.