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| Start-Ups Embrace Arbitration to Settle Workplace Disputes |  | Start-ups are taking a page from the playbook of big corporations, which are increasingly using arbitration to thwart employees from bringing any meaningful legal challenge in court, an investigation by The New York Times found last fall. For start-ups ' many of which began in Silicon Valley ' the clauses can seem to conflict with professed goals of upending business as usual and being open with employees. Arbitration, by its very nature, is a secretive process that is often lopsided in favor of the employer.
JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and MICHAEL CORKERY, The New York Times 05/16/2016    | | Read Article: The New York Times |
| High Court Turns Away Exxon's Challenge To $236M MTBE Verdict | | The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review a $236 million trial judgment against ExxonMobil Corp. in a groundwater contamination case in New Hampshire, leaving in place a verdict the energy giant claims is a violation of its due process rights. The high court denied Exxon's Jan. 20 petition for high court review, which had been opposed by New Hampshire and backed by business and defense bar groups.
Keith Goldberg, Law360.com 05/16/2016 | | Read Article: Law360.com |
| Medical Marijuana Recalled Over Pesticide Residue in Colorado | | A large amount of medical marijuana grown in Denver, Colorado has been recalled due to the potential presence of unsafe pesticide residues. The recall includes "a variety of 80,597 individual packages of marijuana concentrates such as wax, budder, shatter, RSO, live resin and vape pen cartridges used for smoking or vaping." Samples of the marijuana products were found to contain pesticides which the Colorado Department of Agriculture banned from use in marijuana production. All of the recalled items were distributed under the name Avicenna Products.
Mallory Davis, 9NEWS - Colorado 05/13/2016 | | Read Article: 9NEWS - Colorado |
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