NEW YORK, June 14 (Reuters) – When two former interns at the New Yorker and W Magazine sued parent company Conde Nast Publications on Thursday, legal experts said it could be the first in a wave of lawsuits challenging companies … Continued
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Experts support Google in Oracle’s lawsuit over Java APIs
Computerworld – More than 30 computer scientists signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle’s effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and make technology more expensive. The amicus brief was … Continued
Fired For Being Gay? Protections Are Piecemeal
Jake, a 43-year-old worker at an auto parts warehouse in Ohio, often spends his lunch break in his car. By eating alone, he doesn’t have to talk with co-workers about his weekend plans or worry about using the wrong pronoun … Continued
Apparently, An Apple Lawyer ‘Dismantled’ A Google Exec In Court Yesterday
Apple, dealing with a lawsuit from the Department of Justice, won a small victory yesterday. The DoJ alleges that Apple roped a bunch of book publishers into illegally fixing e-book prices. Yesterday, the government called a Google executive, director of strategic … Continued
The Lawyer Awards Employment Special Report: Working Models
This year’s Lawyer Awards employment entries show just how wide-ranging this sector is. The entries for this year’s Employment Team of the Year at The Lawyer Awards were of incredible quality and variety, and the shortlisted firms have undertaken a … Continued
Racial Diversity Efforts Ebb for Elite Careers, Analysis Finds
HOUSTON — As a partner and chief diversity officer at Thompson & Knight, Pauline Higgins was not afraid to press the issue of hiring minorities at the 126-year-old Texas law firm. But when she left in 2008, she was replaced … Continued
Have you read the fine print of your employment contract?
Employment contracts are becoming the biggest loophole in workplace law – but that loophole only works for employers. Companies, with acute knowledge of how employment contracts can operate to their advantage, are increasingly requiring staff to sign one-sided agreements that … Continued
3 Mindbending Ways Apple Dodged $13.8B In Taxes
Kudos to Apple’s finance lawyers, who are the Cirque Du Soleil of legal contortionism. On the eve of live testimony from CEO Tim Cook, CFO Peter Oppenheimer and Phillip Bullock, head of Apple’s tax operations, a scathing congressional investigation of Apple’s tax … Continued
Software: The Attorney Who Is Always on the Job
In the legal arena’s contest of man versus machine, the U.S. Justice Department has given a big boost to the machines. Department officials reviewing the proposed merger of Anheuser-Busch InBev NV and Mexico’s Grupo Modelo SAB recently approved a request … Continued
Mentally disabled men, abused at work, win in court
For years, mentally disabled turkey processing plant workers suffered under the hands of their employer, a jury ruled Wednesday. Verbal abuses included frequently referring to the workers as “retarded,” “dumb ass” and “stupid,” the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission wrote … Continued
CANADA: Ottawa cracks down on employers who abuse program for foreign workers
The federal government will enact new regulations this summer to give officials the power to inspect and penalize Canadian employers who misuse the temporary foreign worker program. The regulations are separate from changes to the foreign-worker program promised in the … Continued
To The Victor Go The Tweets! Viacom Loses Copyright Case Against Youtube, Chad Hurley Rubs It In
A federal judge on Thursday ruled against Viacom in its epic copyright infringement case against YouTube, reports Eriq Gardner at the Hollywood Reporter. YouTube had originally won the case back in 2010. Viacom won an appeal and now that appeal was overturned. Viacom has vowed to … Continued
Senate edges closer to vote on Internet sales tax
(Reuters) – Legislation giving states the power to compel retailers outside their borders to collect online sales taxes, a touchy subject for Internet merchants, is likely to move forward in the Senate next week. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on … Continued
Google and antitrust: Try it and see
WITHIN a few days the future of Google has come into slightly sharper focus. In one respect, almost literally so: on April 15th the search giant said that it was about to start sending Google Glass—a computer resembling spectacles, with a display before the user’s eyes—to developers eager to create applications for it. The firm has also published Glass’s technical specifications and the rules for developers. Among other things, Glass apps must be free of advertising. Nor may data from them be used for advertisements.One day this may change: ads, after all, are how Google makes its money. But far more important for now is the extra clarity about how Google will conduct business in the European Union. More than three years after Joaquín Almunia, the EU’s competition commissioner, first received formal complaints that Google was abusing its dominance of online search, the commissioner and the company have agreed on how Google should change its ways. As expected, Google is conceding more to Mr Almunia than it has to America’s Federal Trade Commission, which completed its own investigation in January. It will also avoid formal charges and fines.Officially, much is still…
New immigration plan outlined: Startup visa is a go, H1-B quota to rise, tougher monitoring required
The bipartisan “Gang of Eight” senators (depicted in the picture) is expected to file its immigration bill within a matter of hours, and with it come major implications for the tech industry and startup community, including the creation of a … Continued