Picture this: you’re sitting in your seventh grade classroom and your teacher asks “can someone give me an example of a multinational bank?” One of your classmates responds in a stage whisper “a piggy bank!” The entire class erupts into laughter, but your teacher isn’t amused and demands to know the culprit. No one owns
Mandatory arbitration agreements for employees have been enforceable for decades. Over the last several years, there has been an ongoing controversy between the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, among others, and the National Labor Relations Board as to whether mandatory arbitration agreements which prohibit collective actions are enforceable. In the recent decision of Epic Systems
In what appears to be the first website accommodation decision within the Fifth Circuit, Judge Sim Lake of the Southern District of Texas District Court found that a “website is not a place of public accommodation” under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). Zaid v. Smart Financial Credit Union, No. H-18-1130, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS