Topic
Fees
153 published works
Employment & Labor
Court Sanctions The EEOC For $2.6 Million In Fees And Costs
By Christopher DeGroff and Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. One of our top five most intriguing cases of 2010 - EEOC o/b/o Serrano, et al v. Cintas Corp., 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS…
Wage & Hour Litigation Blog
Suite Success: Georgia Federal Court Dismisses Class Action Alleging Wrongful Retention of Service Charges at Large Venue Luxury Suites
Co-authored by Brett Bartlett, Fritz Smith and Kevin Young On June 8, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia dismissed with prejudice a putative class action filed…
Real Estate Legal Update
Residential service charge – a regulatory minefield?
Increasing numbers of property developments contain a residential element sold off on long leases and a commercial element let on market rent terms. Those used to managing commercial leases may not…
CAFA Law Blog
Court Tried To Put Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again!
Delebreau v. Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC, No. 6:09-CV-00245, 2011 WL 145298 (S.D.W.Va. Jan. 18, 2011). In this case, a District Court in West Virginia ruled that if a complaint doesn’t…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
Take Me Out to the Ballgame – Yankee Stadium Concession Workers Want A Share of Mandatory Service Charges
On May 9, 2011, a group of Yankee Stadium food service workers filed a complaint in the Southern District of New York alleging that the stadium’s concession providers withheld tips…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
WSJ: “Strapped Cities Hit Nonprofits With Fees”
Over the holiday break, a Wall Street Journal online article surveyed the numerous examples of financially struggling cities hitting nonprofits with new fees. Those examples included Houston, where voters recently…
Land Use Prof Blog
Developers Strike Back — The Transfer Fee
Homeowners weren't the only ones pushed underwater when the housing bubble busted. Developers, too thrived on their clients' seemingly endless access to large loans. When the well dried up and…
Workforce Bulletin
Newly Proposed Wage Order Merges Restaurant and Hotel Industry Wage and Hour Requirements
By Aaron Olsen
By: Amy J. Traub The New York State Department of Labor recently issued a proposed rule which would combine the current wage orders for the restaurant and hotel industries to…
Legal Profession Blog
Illegal Fee
From the July 2010 online edition of the California Bar Journal:[An attorney] was suspended for four years, stayed, with an actual two-year suspension and until he proves his rehabilitation, and…
Wage & Hour Law Update
NY Appellate Court Holds That World Yacht Applies Retroactively
In Samiento v World Yacht, 10 NY3d 70 (2008), the New York Court of Appeals held that whether a labeled service charge is a “gratuity” for purposes of N.Y. Labor…