On January 10, 2014, Judge Kathleen Williams of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the federal court based in Miami, issued an opinion which further solidifies the role of role of arbitration in international disputes, even when parallel litigation is pending in other jurisdictions.
In December 2010, several entities affiliated with JSC Acron, a Moscow-based agrichemicals company, filed suit in Saskatchewan, Canada, to recover for certain breaches of fiduciary duty relating...
A Blacke auto parts store manager who alleged he was fired because of his supervisor's racial animosity has triable race discrimination and retaliation claims because he showed sufficient evidence of possible pretext, but cannot maintain his charge of a hostile work environment with a single derogatory email, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado ruled Jan. 29 (Hallmon v. Advance Auto Parts, Inc., D. Colo., No. 12-cv-00124, 1/29/13).
