On April 26, 2019, the Texas Supreme Court issued an opinion that should greatly curtail the ability of plaintiffs to sustain gross negligence claims in transportation cases by reinforcing the extremely high burden plaintiffs must meet to establish gross negligence.

Last year, the California Supreme Court held in Dynamex Operations v. Superior Court that the “ABC test” determines whether a worker should be classified as an independent contractor or an employee, replacing the more lenient Borello test. 

Microsoft recently announced a critical vulnerability in its Windows operating systems so serious that it is issuing a patch for even unsupported, older versions of Windows. The vulnerability allows for remote code execution in Remote Desktop Services with no authentication at all. In fact, there is no user interaction of any kind required for a malicious actor to exploit the vulnerability.

Following the White House’s “call to action” in 2016, many states sprang into action and attempted to reign in the use of non-compete agreements in their states to even the playing field between employers and employees. Enveloped in this wind of change, on May 8, 2019, Washington State signed into law its own non-compete statute that establishes a black-and-white compensation test for workers who can be required to sign a non-compete agreement and those who cannot.