The different ways federal district courts provide settlement assistance to parties is the focus of a new study by theFederal Judicial Center (FJC). Eight district courts are participating in the study to be completed by late 2014.
“We hope to provide a thorough picture of the variety of ways in which the federal district courts have designed and use their ADR procedures,” said Donna Stienstra, the project’s director. “We’ll look at mediation, arbitration, early neutral evaluation,...
The number of wage-and-hour lawsuits has skyrocketed in New York federal courts, exceeding already-accelerating national trends.
The lawsuits, brought by workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act, generally claim employers did not pay sufficient wages or overtime, often contending they misclassified workers as exempt from overtime payments.
Among New York's four federal district courts, the largest increases are found in Southern and Eastern districts, according to Federal Judicial Center...
