AntitrustEmployment LawFeaturedSports Law
April 17, 2024By Peter Dourvetakis
The Sherman Antitrust exemption for Major League Baseball (MLB) was born over 100 years ago. Over the years, Congress has passed some legislation that allows the players to sue the league under federal antitrust law. However, as it stands today, Major League Baseball still enjoys the exemption from the Sherman Antitrust Act, which allows […]
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Administrative LawConstitutional LawEmployment LawFeatured
March 13, 2024By Sara Asher
During the second wave of the New Deal, the National Labor Relations Act (“the Act”) was enacted to address the imbalance of bargaining power between employers and employees. The Act explicitly states that “[e]mployees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their […]
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Business LawEmployment LawFeaturedFederal Trade Commission
October 9, 2023By Daniel Borges
After centuries of use as a staple of employment law, the non-compete clause may soon become a relic of the past. On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) proposed a new rule to ban employers in the United States from including non-compete clauses in employment agreements with workers.[i] The aptly-named “Non-Compete […]
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Employment LawFeaturedlabor laws
April 5, 2023By Jose Rodriguez-Lage
The ever-present tug-and-pull between the federal and state government was recently encapsulated in a dispute between flight attendants employed by Alaska Airlines, Inc., the successor to Virgin America, Inc. (“Virgin America”).[i]Under Section 512(a) of the California Labor Code, “[a]n employer shall not employ an employee for a work period of more than five hours per […]
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