By Christian Mercado*
Introduction
The securities industry is an example of one attempting to mitigate equity concerns surrounding arbitration agreements contained in contracts of adhesion.
By George H. Friedman, SAA Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
DIRECTV is seeking a rehearing en banc on a split Ninth Circuit decision that had denied its Motion to compel arbitration.
Allegations that new financial advisors were rigidly controlled in the products they could sell and spent most of their time generating new sales leads are sufficient to state a claim that they should have been classified as non-exempt salespeople rather than exempt professionals and paid overtime under the FLSA.
A commodities newsletter “transacts business” in Kansas where two of its subscribers are based in Kansas,
In order to preclude later-filed opt-out claims related to a settled class action as “proceed[ing]” in a single,
The use of equity proceeds from future investors to pay down borrowings used for distributions to current investors of “pre-need” revenue from burial service sales otherwise tied up in state-mandated trusts is not federal securities fraud,