A federal judge in Pennsylvania granted FedEx’s motion to compel arbitration in a dispute with an independent service provider in Florida, concluding the plaintiff didn’t qualify as a “transportation worker” under the exemption under Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act. In a July 5 opinion, U.S. District Judge Nora Barry Fischer of the Western…

With the aggressive pace of technological change and the onslaught of news regarding data breaches, cyberattacks and technological threats to privacy and security, it is easy to assume these are fundamentally new threats. The pace of technological change is slower than it feels, and many seemingly new categories of threats…

Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Monteleoni of the Southern District of New York began his closing argument Monday in the bribery and extortion trial of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, by reminding jurors that the FBI found gold bars and envelopes of cash stashed all around the New Jersey home…

The Federal Trade Commission’s rule banning employers from imposing noncompete agreements on their workers is unlikely to prevail in litigation, competition and intellectual property experts said following a Texas federal judge’s decision last week preliminarily enjoining the regulation’s implementation. “I think that the odds of the FTC rule ever becoming…

A central Pennsylvania gymnastics camp has agreed to pay $8 million to a teenage gymnast who claimed she was sexually assaulted by a coach at the camp. The plaintiff, referred to in court documents as S.C., alleged that the Woodward Camp in State College knew that S.C.’s abuser had a history…

Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky and Strauss Borrelli filed a data breach class action Monday against Prudential Insurance Co. of America on behalf of more than 2 million current and former customers. Prudential has been hit with three class actions in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey since the beginning of June…