Employment LitigationWe have successfully litigated cases on behalf of classes of individuals employed by Fortune 500 companies.Practice AreasBlog CategoriesImproving Working Conditions and Expanding Employee Opportunities WBE’s employment litigation practice is...
Case Update - October 7, 2021: On Thursday, October 7, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court denied our second petition for a Writ of Certiorari. The denial was not accompanied by reasoning as to why the Court decided not to accept the case for review and is not an indication...
Keeping kids safe in school is a major priority for parents. We live in a world where we dread the next mass school shooting, or the next drug epidemic. We trust school administrators and faculty to ensure students are given a stable environment to learn, free...
On Wednesday, March 6, 2019, the AARP and AARP Foundation filed an amicus brief urging the Sixth Circuit to rehear the case of Jammal, et al v. American Family Insurance Co. et al. In its brief, the retiree advocacy group expressed concern that the court’s January...
Last year, we wrote about the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The 2008 act requires companies to obtain affirmative consent from consumers and employees before collecting “biometric identifiers” such as fingerprints, retina scans, and facial...
On March 2, 2012, Iowa’s Governor Branstad signed House File 589 into law, creating a new crime of “agricultural production facility fraud.” Utah passed a similar “agricultural operations interference” law on March 20, 2012. While their names make it sound like...
It looks like Wal-Mart isn’t the only company under fire for engaging in discrimination against its female employees. Recently, 6 women filed a class action against Bayer for gender discrimination. According to the women filing the class action suit, Bayer published...
If you’ve been in a Starbucks recently, you’ve probably noticed that the atmosphere feels more chaotic than calm. Overworked employees in understaffed stores are scrambling to concoct whichever seasonal Frappuccino has swept the nation as quickly as possible while...
After last year’s controversial Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission campaign-finance ruling, which treated corporations like people under the First Amendment in lifting restrictions on corporate campaign expenditures, it appeared that the Supreme Court had...
Over the past five years, Wells Fargo opened more than 2 million bogus deposit and credit card accounts in its customers’ names without their knowledge or consent. The practice let the company reap millions by charging its customers unwanted fees and allowed Wells...
On August 9, 2013, Wexler Wallace LLP and its co-counsel—Hansen Reynolds Dickinson Crueger, the Law Office of Greg Coleman, and Landskroner Grieco Merriman—achieved a victory for Plaintiffs in a nationwide class action against American Family Insurance when Judge...
By Jeffrey R. McCord of The Investor Advocate (August 15, 2011) - New research by finance and accounting professors at Rutgers and Emory universities’ business schools finds that both class action lawsuits and SEC enforcement actions are strong deterrents to...