Ron Leibman, chair of McCarter’s Transportation, Logistics & Supply Chain Management Practice, speaks with FreightWaves about the holiday season and the potential port strike. He noted that with dockworkers from Maine to Texas threatening to strike on Tuesday, the impact of a work stoppage could Continue Reading
A New Law Is Rattling Hemp Sellers: States’ Regulatory Authority Challenged
New Jersey's just-enacted regulatory plan for the sale of intoxicating hemp products has drawn a legal challenge from companies selling beverages. A measure called the Hemp Act Amendments, signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy on Sept. 12, gives the state's Cannabis Regulatory Commission Continue Reading
Proposed $4B Hawaii Fire Deal Faces Insurance Questions
A proposed $4 billion settlement for victims of the 2023 Maui wildfire is in jeopardy as the Hawaii Supreme Court looks into insurers' rights to recoup payments from those responsible for the fire. Sheri Pastor, chair of our Insurance Recovery, Litigation & Counseling group, spoke to Law360 Continue Reading
Non-compete Rule Blocked; Watch Other Forces on Restrictive Covenants
A court has blocked the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) non-compete rule that threatened to invalidate contract terms many healthcare practices and health systems use. McCarter partner Khaled Klele spoke with Part B News and explained that just because the FTC rule is out of the way for now, there Continue Reading
NCAA Bankruptcy Would ‘Reshape College Sports Landscape’
Kate Roggio Buck spoke with Times Higher Education regarding the NCAA settlement and how bankruptcy would reshape college sports. Ongoing and future litigation brought by student athletes over their lost earnings potential could push the NCAA toward bankruptcy. “Eventually, the NCAA will not have Continue Reading
NCAA Must Give up Control to Reach Suitable NIL Settlement
Kate Roggio Buck spoke with Law360 about the proposed $2.78 billion Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) settlement for which a California federal judge denied preliminary approval on September 5 and sent the two sides back to renegotiate certain terms. A radical redo is not something the NCAA seems Continue Reading
Labor Unrest Threatens to Upend Harris’ Economic Pitch
Ron Leibman, chair of McCarter’s Transportation, Logistics & Supply Chain Management Practice, speaks with POLITICO about the potential economic and political implications of labor strikes and how they may impact voter sentiment before the upcoming election. The looming potential dockworkers’ Continue Reading
Potential Port Strike a Dilemma for Harris
Ron Leibman, chair of McCarter’s Transportation, Logistics & Supply Chain Management Practice, speaks with FreightWaves to discuss the economic fallout and potential effects on the upcoming election of a port strike. The International Longshoremen’s Association confirmed that it plans to strike Continue Reading
Potential East and Gulf Coast Port Strike Could Cause Supply Chain Chaos
Ron Leibman, chair of McCarter’s Transportation, Logistics & Supply Chain Management Practice, speaks with The Baltimore Sun to discuss the potential port strikes as the contract between dockworkers and their employers up and down the East and Gulf Coast is set to expire on September 30, 2024. Continue Reading
Teamsters Eye Game-Changing Win at Amazon ‘Crown Jewel’
Hugh Murray, Chair of McCarter’s Labor & Employment practice group, spoke with Law360 about a recent vote by workers at Amazon’s KCVG Air Hub, an air cargo facility in Kentucky, to bring in the Teamsters to continue their efforts to organize KCVG’s 4,000 workers. He said that the stakes are high Continue Reading