The Ninth Circuit’s recent ruling could be a significant step towards eliminating gender pay discrimination in the workplace. The federal Equal Pay Act of 1963 attempted to eliminate gender wage discrimination by prohibiting employers from paying male employees higher wages than female employees for the same work.1 There were four exceptions to the general rule of…
Author: Blake Purdy
Lawsuits Against Pfizer Dismissed
Pfizer Inc. is one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies and is one of the thirty companies used to calculate the Dow Jones Industrial Average. In a class action, over one thousand lawsuits have been filed against Pfizer, claiming that certain testosterone replacement drugs increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes.1 Testosterone replacement…
ESPN and Private Information
In 2014, Chad Eichenberger sued the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (“ESPN”) in a class action lawsuit claiming that the company gave away the personal information of consumers who used the WatchESPN app to Adobe Systematics Inc.1 Eichenberger accessed the WatchESPN channel through his Roku Box (a digital-media streaming device). Eichenberger claimed that every time…
The Impact of the Grubhub Lawsuit
Grubhub is an online platform that allows users to coordinate pick-up and delivery orders from restaurants. For restaurants that don’t have their own delivery drivers, Grubhub provides its own service to pick up orders from them and make the delivery to its customers. For employment purposes, Grubhub drivers are classified as independent contractors. In 2015,…