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Courtside Supreme Court: No OT Pay for Car Dealership 'Service Advisors'

Supreme Court: No OT Pay for Car Dealership 'Service Advisors'

By Christopher Coble, Esq. | Last updated on

The minimum requirements for employers paying overtime pay are dictated by the Fair Labor Standards Act. The FLSA requires overtime pay for certain classes of...

Courtside Supreme Court Won't Hear Appeal From Former Gitmo Detainees

Supreme Court Won't Hear Appeal From Former Gitmo Detainees

By Tanya Roth, Esq. | Last updated on

Last Monday, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by four former Guantánamo detainees from a lower court decision dismissing their case....

Courtside There's a Suit for That: AT&T Drops Suit against Verizon Ads

There's a Suit for That: AT&T Drops Suit against Verizon Ads

By Tanya Roth, Esq. | Last updated on

AT&T is this country's largest phone company, but that did not stop it from crying foul when the smaller but scrappier Verizon wireless went after it with...

Courtside To the Mattresses: Godfather of Spam Gets 51 Months

To the Mattresses: Godfather of Spam Gets 51 Months

By Tanya Roth, Esq. | Last updated on

Spam can get you in real trouble. No, not the food poisoning kind, the wire fraud kind. After a three year investigation headed by the FBI and involving...

Courtside Texas District Court Rules In Favor of Merck & Co. in Vioxx Suit

Texas District Court Rules In Favor of Merck & Co. in Vioxx Suit

By Minara El-Rahman | Last updated on

Reuters reports that Merck & Co. was granted a motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit brought by the Texas Attorney General's office against...

Courtside Scared to Death: Man Convicted for Woman's Heart Attack

Scared to Death: Man Convicted for Woman's Heart Attack

By Tanya Roth, Esq. | Last updated on

The verdict sounds like a punch line, but two lives are over as a result. Not guilty of murder, but guilty of scaring a grandmother to death, 20 year-old Larry...

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