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On June 30, 2021, the college athletics landscape was significantly altered, as the NCAA announced an "interim policy" concerning the commercialization of college athletes' name, image and likeness ("NIL").

The role of appellate counsel at the pre-trial and trial stages of litigation is of increased interest to in-house counsel, appellate practitioners, and trial lawyers alike. Articles have been written about the subject, speeches have been given, CLEs have been offered.

A ruling last week out of the Seventh Circuit, Hughes v. Kore of Indiana Enterprise, Inc., suggests that cy pres can be used as a remedy for a class to support class certification even when the size of potential damages awards to individual class members would otherwise seem too small to justify class treatment.

A November 22, 2016 Supreme Court ruling, Rost, significantly changed the playing field for defendants in Pennsylvania.

The purpose of the audit is to assess the tool's disparate impact on women and minorities.

Carl J. Schaerf, Chair of Schnader's Antitrust and Trade Regulation Practice Group, published a client alert, "DOJ and FTC Allow Collaborative Action Between Competitors In the Age of COVID-19."

On January 31, 2020, the Pennsylvania Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC) adopted an amendment promulgated by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry (DLI)

Blockchain – a distributed electronic ledger that facilitates decentralized transaction networks – has the potential to transform finance and business not unlike the World Wide Web in the 1990s...

Recent decisions out of the Second and Ninth Circuits have increased the liability exposure of plan fiduciaries under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act where the retirement plan gives employees an option to invest in the employer’s stock.

When a plaintiff seeks certification of a class, the issue of whether the class is "ascertainable" has become an increasingly significant battleground issue in class certification proceedings.

"The slaughter pen" is the early 1900s term to describe the seating area behind baseball's home plate before the age of nets or fencing shielded them from wild pitches and foul balls.

On November 3, 2020, Californians voted to approve Proposition 24 to strengthen the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA").

Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure 1042.3, the Certificate of Merit Rule, requires a plaintiff in a malpractice action to certify that he or she has obtained from an appropriate expert an opinion that the defendant's work likely fell outside the acceptable professional standards and caused the plaintiff's damages.

The Third Circuit recently reversed a district court’s judgment in favor of a plaintiff under the federal price discrimination statute, the Robinson-Patman Act (RPA), 15 U.S.C. § 13, concluding that the RPA does not apply where any competition between the plaintiff and the purportedly favored purchaser occurred "before" the allegedly discriminatory sale by the manufacturer took place.

The intersection of class actions and arbitration continues to raise issues for parties to consider in evaluating whether arbitration clauses do or do not permit class actions in arbitration.

In September 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor announced a joint initiative with the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") and 11 states1 to share information and "coordinate law enforcement" for the purpose of ending "the practice of misclassifying employees in order to avoid providing employment protections."

On Tuesday, the Internal Revenue Service argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in U.S. v. Quality Stores Inc. et al., case no. 12-1408, that severance payments made to employees following involuntary termination of employment should be subject to payroll taxes under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA).