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Civil Litigation
Civil Litigation Articles
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This article discusses the rise of certain legal issues and, in some cases, certain legal risks unique to the use of GPS navigation technology. -
This article reviews a recent U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Enforcement Guidance on Employee Benefits which held many employers may violate federal discrimination laws due to an employee receiving lower benefits or is denied benefits based on a protected classification, such as age, gender, disability, or race. -
On June 21, 2004, a federal district court in San Francisco certified a nationwide class of approximately 1.6 million current and former female employees of Wal-Mart who claim sex discrimination in promotions and pay at Wal-Mart stores around the country. Dukes, et al. v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., No. C 01-02252 (N.D. Cal. June 21, 2004). Not only does the size of the class dwarf other previous employment class actions, but this may also be the first billion dollar employment discrimination case ever. The implications of this decision are profound and potentially frightening. -
Delaware's Supreme Court recently decided a trio of cases concerning the admissibility of biomechanical expert testimony. Biomechanics is the study of &#quot;the mechanical bases of biological, especially muscular, activity; also: the study of the principles and relations involved.&#quot; -
In William K. Kirkpatrick v. West American Bank, 98 Daily Journal D.A.R. 8111, the Third Appellate District affirme. -
Two recent cases are of interest in interpreting indemnity agreements and additional insured endorsements.First, in. -
Employers pushing toward diversity in the workplace are now encountering push-back from employees on the religious right. These employees contend that diversity policies requiring them to "value" concepts with which they fundamentally disagree for religious reasons impinge upon their Title VII religious rights. Two recent cases illustrate the positions of both sides on this issue and the narrow ground employers must walk between the two. -
This article discusses the opinion in U.S. v. Aldman, 134 F.3d 1194, in which the Second Circuit held that the work-product doctrine may shield business reports from disclosure under the attorney work product doctrine). -
Prior to January 1, 2004, sellers of residential property in Oregon had a fundamental choice between disclosing specific facts about the condition of the property being sold or disclaiming all representations and warranties about the condition of the property. Now that Senate Bill 515 has taken effect, the option to disclaim and sell "AS IS" is no longer available. This is perhaps the most dramatic of several substantive changes made to ORS 105.465 et seq. -
In prior articles, I have discussed that a lender which forecloses its security interest in real property using no.