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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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...