On August 16, 2018, Altshuler Berzon LLP, along with co-counsel at Demos, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, and SEIU, filed a complaint in the federal district court for the Northern District of Florida challenging the failure of the Florida Secretary of State and 32 County Supervisors of Elections to provide Spanish-speaking Puerto Ricans bilingual ballots, election materials, and […]
A federal district court in San Jose on August 15, 2018 granted final approval of a landmark $115 million settlement to benefit consumers whose personal information was hacked from Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield insurance companies in early 2015, believed to be the largest settlement in a consumer data breach case. In addition to the $115 […]
On August 15, 2018, the California Supreme Court denied review of the Fifth District Court of Appeal’s decision upholding the listing of the primary chemical in Roundup weed killer, glyphosate, as a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, known as […]
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on August 14, 2018 rejected a constitutional challenge to Minnesota statutes that permit homecare workers paid by the State to democratically elect a union representative for collective bargaining over the terms of their employment. Similar challenges have been rejected by the First, Second, and Seventh Circuits. […]
On August 9, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of Clark et al. v. City of Seattle et al., one of two lawsuits challenging a Seattle ordinance that establishes a process for independent contractor drivers who contract with for-hire and taxicab transportation companies, including companies like Uber […]
On August 7, 2018, the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina issued a major voting rights decision, ruling that the National Voter Registration Act (“NVRA”) prohibits the use of North Carolina statutes to (1) remove voters from the registration rolls based on a supposed change of address without following the […]
On July 30, 2018, the Ninth Circuit issued a unanimous opinion in Interpipe Contracting, Inc. v. Becerra, Ninth Circuit Case No. 17-55248, rejecting several legal challenges to California Senate Bill 954, which amended California’s prevailing wage law to clarify that public works contractors may only take credit against the prevailing wage requirement for contributions made […]
On July 25, 2018, the Eleventh Circuit issued a unanimous published decision in Lewis v. Alabama, Eleventh Circuit Case No. 17-11009, reversing the district court’s dismissal of a lawsuit by fast food workers and other plaintiffs alleging that Alabama’s enactment of a law preempting all local minimum wage regulation, which was adopted in response to Birmingham’s decision […]
On July 17, 2018, Altshuler Berzon LLP attorneys and co-counsel in Georgia filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of Common Cause, the National Election Defense Coalition, and Protect Democracy in Curling v. Kemp (N.D. Ga.), No. 1:17-cv-02989-AT, supporting a challenge to Georgia’s use of unreliable and unverifiable touchscreen electronic voting machines that have no […]
On June 28, 2018, the proponents of an initiative that Altshuler Berzon LLP attorneys and others challenged in the California Supreme Court as misleading and deceptive withdrew that initiative from consideration. As a result, the initiative will not appear on California’s November general election ballot. Titled the “Healthy Homes and Schools Act of 2018,” the […]