U. S. District Judge Timothy Burgess has resolved several issues raised by Yup’ik voters who sued the City of Bethel and the State of Alaska under the federal Voting Rights Act. In one Order issued this Wednesday afternoon, Burgess held:
Because Plaintiffs have failed to raise a genuine issue of material fact as to whether Yup’ik […]
The 9th Circuit has reversed a District Court’s refusal to permit discovery directed toward an ERISA plan administrator’s conflict of interest without a showing of “need.”
In an unpublished decision, the panel held that Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Glenn, 128 S.Ct. 2343 (2008), lowered the threshold for discovery of evidence of an administrator’s potential conflicts.
Wilcox v. Wells Fargo […]
The EEOC yesterday issued a 94-page Compliance Manual on religious discrimination.
In this morning’s opinion, the 9th Circuit has held that the court, not the arbitrator, decides whether an employer has either repudiated an arbitration agreement, or waived its right to compel arbitration of an employment dispute.
On the merits of repudiation issue, the panel held that the the employee’s failure to properly initate arbitration (by submitting a formal Demand […]
