Former Xerox executive Barry Romeril can’t ditch his agreement not to deny accounting fraud allegations as part of a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday. U.S. Circuit Court Judge Denny Chin wrote for the three-judge panel that Romeril waived his right to publicly…

The Second Circuit said in a published opinion Monday that it could find no legal error or due process violation in an 18-year-old gag order from a former Xerox executive’s settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. An appellate panel denied former Xerox Chief Financial Officer Barry D. Romeril’s motion to invalidate the provision…

…Other states already have class action lawsuits working through the courts. The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a class-action lawsuit challenging Michigan State University’s vaccine mandate for employees with naturally acquired immunity to COVID-19… Read the full article TweetShareShare0 Shares

In the waning days of 2020, as COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts were summiting the highest peak of the pandemic, the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) of Massachusetts decided that the First Amendment’s Assembly Clause does not protect private assembly by private citizens in “private homes.” According to the state’s high court, whether, when, and how the citizens of…

…New Civil Liberties Alliance is involved in other vaccine mandate cases, and Younes acknowledges thus far, courts have been siding with schools. “The employee mandates, so far, have mostly been upheld at universities,” Younes said. “I think that things will change a little bit when a lot of these mandates are resulting from the Biden…

…Jeanna Norris, an MSU administrative associate and fiscal officer who previously recovered from a case of COVID-19, sued administrators over the mandate, saying she received medical advice from her immunologist that she does not need a vaccine. Read the full article TweetShareShare0 Shares