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2705, 2016

Plaintiffs Must Demonstrate Actual Injury, SCOTUS Rules

On May 16, 2016, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its opinion in the closely watched case of Spokeo, Inc., v. Robins, No. 13-1339.  Spokeo, Inc. is an online information aggregation service that, in response to requests, searches a wide array of databases and generates a profile of the subject of the search. […]

2808, 2015

Proposed Legislative Rules under the Pregnant Workers’ Fairness Act

The West Virginia Legislature recently passed the Pregnant Workers’ Fairness Act, requiring employers to make the same sort of accommodations for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions that employers already make for temporary disabilities not related to pregnancy. The act obligates employers to make reasonable modifications for employees who have limitations that stem from pregnancy, […]