Archive for October 2015

By: Sara Sass Woodbridge, one of the largest grocer retailers in the United States, contributed with various contribution rates to a multiemployer pension plan (“MPP”) for their trucking and warehouse employees. MPPs involve multiple employers creating pensions for their employees, and these pensions require contribution rates annually set by each employer.[2] Woodbridge withdrew from the…

By: Stephanie Costa DC Comics is the publisher and copyright owner of the Batman comic books, which, since 1941, included the Batmobile, Batman’s car.[1] Reserving the exclusive merchandising rights to all products manufactured or distributed under the name of any character in the Batman comic books for itself, DC Comics licensed the comic to American…

By: Chauna Pervis On October 21, 2015, the Second Circuit held that three employees’ Facebook status, “like,” and comment about their employer constituted protected concerted activity under § 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”), and therefore, the employer violated the Act by discharging the employees.[1] The Court also held that the employer’s Internet/Blogging…

By: Kristine Little On September 30, 2015, the Ninth Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part, the district court’s judgment pertaining to an antitrust lawsuit regarding the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (“NCAA”) amateurism rules.[1] The Court held that the NCAA’s amateurism rules were an illegal restraint on trade and had an anticompetitive effect on…

By: Alexandra Foster On July 28, 2015, National Football League (NFL) Commissioner Roger Goodell, acting as arbitrator, imposed a four-game suspension against New England Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady under the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).[1] Brady stood accused of involvement in the deflation of the Patriots’ game balls before their game against the Indianapolis Colts during…