In light of the absence of federal regulation, more than half of the states have now stepped in to regulate the social media privacy rights of employees. The most recent push for this move towards social media protections was implemented in New York in September.  These additional employee protections add to the ever-growing list of employer obligations under state laws.

The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (“DCWP”) recently adopted amended rules related to the Earned Safe and Sick Time Act (“ESSTA”).

Miami Lewis Brisbois Partners Todd R. Ehrenreich, Troy P. Cunningham, and David L. Luck recently won a defense summary judgment in a toxic-tort action pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. See Vandestreek v. Lockheed Martin Corp., No. 6:21-cv-1570-RBD-DCI, 2023 WL 6396087, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 177550 (M.D. Fla. Sept. 27, 2023).

On October 26, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted Rule 10D-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”) implementing section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank Act), which required the SEC and the national securities exchanges to establish listing standards that require  publicly listed companies to adopt and comply with a “clawback policy” for the recovery of erroneously awarded incentive-based compensation paid to their executive officers. 

A recent decision out of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania brings promising news to freight brokers conducting business throughout the Third Circuit. In Michael Lee, et al. v. Golf Transportation, Inc., et al., Case No. 3:21-cv-01948 (M.D. Pa. Nov. 7, 2023) a magistrate judge presiding over the matter granted a motion for summary judgment in favor of a freight broker defendant on the basis that the common law tort claims levied against it were preempted by the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act (“FAAAA”), 40 U.S.C. § 14501(c)(1).