Jennifer Bennett

Bojangles’ Restaurants Inc. secured a pre-trial win on some claims in a wage-and-hour suit, but it will still have to defend others, including two state-law classes made up of approximately 3,000 workers.

Enterprise Holdings Inc. and a Boston regional subsidiary convinced a federal judge to prevent nearly 1,500 workers from pursuing their overtime allegations as a group.

A federal judge who lamented that precedent required him to send a wage-and-hour case to arbitration isn’t alone in criticizing the practice while enforcing it, but the legislative fix he urged looks unlikely.

Noushin Farhoumand devoted his life to psychiatry, the improvement of mental health services, and the training and education of healthcare staff.Noushin was deeply committed to the care of patients, and succeeded in moving patients from large mental health hospitals into primary healthcare and the local community. He initiated the creation of a community psychiatric hospital in Brighton and Hove, and aided in the formation of the Brighton and Sussex Medical School. On his retirement, the meeting room in South Downs Trust’s new Mill View Hospital was officially named “the Farhoumand Room,” in dedication to Noushin and his lifelong service.Noushin was born in Tehran. His father moved the family to Tanzania (then Tanganyika) in 1954 to teach the Baháʼí Faith. Farhoumand Senior was appointed personal physician to President …

On January 5, 2023, President Biden signed the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act of 2022 (“PAIPA”) into law. PAIPA requires that the President submit an annual report identifying and describing any “significant trade secret theft” by a foreign person or entity against a U.S. person or entity. PAIPA also requires that the President impose sanctions on certain offenders, but allows the President to choose from an enumerated list of specific sanctions. To date, there has been no reported activity or imposition of sanctions under the statute, and it remains to be seen how PAIPA will be enforced and influence existing federal trade secret misappropriation laws

The shootings took place Sunday morning in a tree-lined suburban neighborhood of Burnsville. Just before 2 a.m., police responded to a domestic violence report. An armed man had barricaded himself in a home with his family, said Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans. Those inside included seven children ranging in age from 2 to 15. The man, who by Monday morning had not yet been publicly identified by law enforcement, was armed with more than one firearm and had a large amount of ammunition.

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Philadelphia defeated a lawsuit claiming a years-old wage settlement with some cops who handle police dogs, reached through arbitration, runs afoul of federal overtime protections.

During my formative years, my fists did most of my communicating, which later led me to follow a win/lose strategy in interpersonal communications.

Liberty Mutual Group Inc. and call center employees who say it stiffed them on pay for necessary pre- and post-shift work received a federal judge’s approval for a deal that gives each plaintiff at least $200.