Articles and Amicus Briefs

• On 5/18/10, The United States Law Week published ADA Requires Move Theaters to Provide Closed Captioning, Audio Descriptions by Bernard Pazanowski.  Download PDF copy of the article.

• On 4/28/10, the Daily Labor Report published the Clash of the Titans: Iqbal and Wage and Hour Class/Collective Actions by David Borgen and Lin Chan.  Download PDF copy of the article.

• GDBBD writes NELA amicus brief to Third Circuit on Hybrid Collective/Class Actions!  Read Adrian-Parker-v.-NutriSystem-Inc. (1/7/2010)

• “ Blind Sox Fan Gets MLB to Even Game” – Under its settlement with GDBBD, MLB.com rolls out accessibility features on league and team websites aimed at making information fully accessible to the visually impaired (Boston Globe 2/12/2010)

• " MLB Works with Disabilty Advocates to Make Sites Accessible" – MLB.com has made their Web sites more accessible to visually impaired fans under a settlement with GDBBD (The Recorder 2/12/2010)

• The Year In Review:   An Update of the Most Significant Cases and Developments Under Employment Discrimination (and Related) Statutes (1/5/2009)  

• PAGA & 17200 in Wage and Hour Cases (9/17/2009)

• Selected Topics in Employment Discrimination Law: Cases and Leading Current Issues in Race and Gender, Retaliation, and Age Discrimination (6/29/09)

• Key Developments in California Wage and Hour Class Action Law (5/19/2009)

• American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law - Advanced Litigation of Wage and Hour Class Cases: Representative Evidence and Settling Hybrid Cases (4/1/2009)
• The Year in Review: An Update of The Most Significant Cases and Developments Under Employment Discrimination (and related) Statutes (1/5/2009)

• Upper Midwest Employment Law Institute Advanced Trial Practice: How to Bring the FLSA case (Plaintiffs' Perspective) (No. 607) (5/30/2008)

• Upper Midwest Employment Law Institute Advanced Trial Practice: Plaintiffs' Panel For Winning FLSA Cases (Plaintiffs' Perspective) (No. 707) (5/30/2008)

• The FLSA At the Frontier: Overtime Exemptions After the New Regs (3/28/2008)

• Gentry v. Superior Court and Murphy v. Check 'N Go of California: Preserving Employees' Class Action Rights (2/08/2008)

• The Year in Review: An Update of the Most Significant Cases Under Employment Discrimination (and Related) Statutes (1/05/2008)

• Significant Legal Developments in Wage & Hour Law: Deference Standards (NELA 2007 - New Orleans, LA) (10/19/2007)

• Division of Labor Standards Enforcement - Written Comments - Meal & Rest Period Public Forum(8/30/2007)

• Dipping into the Tip Pool: Restaurant Workers & the FLSA for the 18th Annual NELA Convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico (6/27/2007)

• Wage & Hour Class Certification: Prespectives on Communications and Discovery Issues (4/262007)

• Panel on Discrimination in Compensation National Conference on Equal Employment Opportunity Law: Selected Current Issues in Compensation Discrimination Law (3/24/2007)

• Wage and Hour Update - Labor & Employment Law Conference - The Seminar Group

• (1/25/2007)
• The Year in Review: An Update of the Most Significant Cases Under Employment Discrimination (and Related) Statutes (1/06/2007)
• Wage & Hour Class Certification: Perspectives on Communications and Discovery Issues (10/26/2006)
• Recent Developments in Class Action Arbitration (7/28/2006)
• Recent Developments in California Wage and Hour Law (7/25/2006)

• Getting Even: Why Women Don’t Get Paid Like Men -And What To Do About It
  By Evelyn F. Murphy with E.J. Graff (Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2005) Book Review by David Borgen (1/17/2006)
  

• Major Areas of Liability in Wage and Hour Law (1/04/2006)
  

Amicus Briefs:

• Abdela Tum, et al. v. Barber Foods, Inc.

• Adrian-Parker-v.-NutriSystem-Inc.

• Arizona v. Harkins

• Cortez v. Purolator Products Air Filtration Company

• Ellis v. Costco, Case No. C04-03341 MHP (N. D. Cal.) (Amicus brief on use of social science evidence on stereotyping in gender discrimination class action lawsuit challenging subjective decision making having unlawful adverse impact.)

• In Re: Sepulveda v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Litigation

• In Re: Farmers Insurance Exchange, Claims Representatives' Overtime Pay Litigation(3/20/06)

• Jose Morillion, et al. v. Royal Packing Company

• Robert Gentry (Plaintiff and Petitioner) v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County (Respondent) Circuit City Stores, Inc. (Real Party in Interest)

• Sav-On Drug Stores, Inc. v. Superior Court for Los Angeles County