The Illinois First District recently discussed the contours of pre-suit discovery requests in cases that implicate fee speech concerns and whether truthful information can ever support an intentional interference with employment claim. After relocating from another state to take a compliance role with a large bank, the plaintiff in Calabro v. Northern Trust …
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Florida Series III: Parent Company’s Merger Doesn’t Impact Subsidiary’s Noncompete with M.D.
Collier HMA v. Menichello a medical noncompete dispute, considers whether a third party can enforce a noncompete after a merger. Jettisoning the “changed corporate culture and mode of operation” test, the Florida appeals court applied basic principles of corporate law to determine whether a parent company’s merger necessarily meant its subsidiary merged too and couldn’t enforce …
False Info in Employee Time Records Can Support Common Law Fraud Claim – IL Fed Court
Some key questions the Court grapples with in Laba v. CTA, 2016 WL 147656 (N.D.Ill. 2016) are whether an employee who sleeps on the job or runs personal errands on company time opens himself up to a breach of fiduciary or fraud claim by his employer. The Court answered “no” (fiduciary duty claim) and “maybe” (fraud claim) in an employment …