Brief emphasizes president’s authority under both Constitution and federal law to reduce scope of union monopoly bargaining control WASHINGTON, DC - The National Right to Work Foundation has filed an amicus brief at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals defending the Trump Administration’s efforts to reduce union bosses’ control within the federal government.| National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
Australia’s Environment Minister has conceded that successive governments acted unlawfully by failing to produce mandatory recovery plans for threatened wildlife, following a landmark Federal Court case brought by The Wilderness Society.| Wildlife Queensland
By: Minh N. Vu, Kristina M. Launey, and Susan Ryan Seyfarth Synopsis: Mid-year federal lawsuit counts show a continued rebound trend from 2023’s low. Since we started tracking ADA Title III lawsuits filed in federal courts at the mid-point of the year in 2017, we’ve seen ebbs and flows of activity in the first six months of... Continue Reading| ADA Title III
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Democracy Forward sues DOJ and FBI to release records on Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking case and communications involving Donald Trump.| Maryland Daily Record
The owners of the cargo ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge are suing the company that built the vessel, alleging negligence.| Maryland Daily Record
In a case highlighting the gross misuse of court resources in Canada, a federal employee who claimed that maskless workplaces posed a health risk following the end of Covid-19 mask mandates, pushed his case all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada.| Police On Guard For Thee
By: John W. Egan and Minh N. Vu Seyfarth Synopsis: Two recent New York district court decisions underscore how serial website accessibility plaintiffs are encountering greater challenges to demonstrate their standing to pursue ADA claims in federal court. SDNY Judge Orders Jurisdictional Discovery In Fernandez v. Buffalo Jackson Trading Co., LLC, U.S. District Judge John... Continue Reading| ADA Title III
By Kristina M. Launey & Minh N. Vu Seyfarth Synopsis: Plaintiffs filed 2,452 website accessibility lawsuits in federal court in 2024 – a 13% decrease| ADA Title III
By: Minh N. Vu Seyfarth Synopsis: A recent case from the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida illustrates how businesses should handle scenarios where service animals present health risks to others with severe allergies. We all know that public accommodations must allow service animals accompanying individuals with disabilities onto their premises, but... Continue Reading| ADA Title III
By: Lotus Cannon and Kristina Launey Seyfarth Synopsis: Are web-only businesses subject to Title III? A Minnesota federal court joins the controversy and| ADA Title III
By Minh N. Vu, Kristina Launey, and Susan Ryan Seyfarth Synopsis: The two-year decline in ADA Title III filings stopped in 2024, with plaintiffs| ADA Title III
"Trust us, we got it right" isn't good enough. Safe Food Matters and friends won in the glyphosate product renewal case, when on February 18 the Federal Court uled that the renewal of a pesticide product used in forestry and agriculture was not reasonable because Health Canada's decision-making was not adequate.| Safe Food Matters
By Minh N. Vu Seyfarth Synopsis: 2024 saw some interesting developments and an uptick in lawsuit filings from 2023; expect less ADA Title III enforcement| ADA Title III
On January 22, 2025, Safe Food Matters will be in court again, fighting over glyphosate. Our original – still ongoing -lawsuit was about Health Canada’s decision to register glyphosate (“Registration Decision”), and this one is about the 5 year renewal of a product that contains the pesticide. Details on how to attend in person or […]| Safe Food Matters
By: Ashley Jenkins and Kristina Launey Seyfarth Synopsis: A federal court recently held that a football stadium must make reasonable modifications to its| ADA Title III
By: John W. Egan and Minh N. Vu Seyfarth Synopsis: A recent decision holding that web-only businesses cannot be sued over the accessibility of their| ADA Title III
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By Minh Vu, Kristina Launey and Susan Ryan Seyfarth Synopsis: The decline in ADA Title III lawsuits that began in 2022 comes to a halt in 2024 and| ADA Title III
By Kristina M. Launey & Minh N. Vu Seyfarth Synopsis: Plaintiffs filed 2,794 website accessibility lawsuits in federal court in 2023 –| ADA Title III