Law, Strategy, and Risk in Commercial Disputes
Does a woman's belly show at eight months of pregnancy enough to make a potential employer's question of "[h]ow much longer do you have" questionable?
You have to ask?
How do you feel about the follow-up question: do you have any other children?
She did. And she didn't get the job.
Oddly, the case turned…
A federal law says firms that offer "credit repair" have to tell customers about their "right to sue a credit repair organization that violates" the law. The statute also voids "[a]ny waiver by any consumer of any protection provided by or any right of the consumer under this subchapter".
May a consumer still waive …
Does the federal Arbitration Act allow you to appeal an arbitrator's award to a federal court of appeals, skipping the district court? What if the other side agreed to the direct appeal thing?
The Ninth Circuit held in Johnson v. Wells Fargo Mortgage, Inc., No. 09-15937 (9th Cir. Feb. 15, 2011), that the Act bars…