WASHINGTON — In a decade as a federal appeals court judge, Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has criticized courts for giving too much power to government agencies that enforce the nation’s labor and employment laws. As a lawyer in private practice, he also backed curbs on some class-action lawsuits. His conservative approach could tip the [...]
NEW YORK — Dan Zhong’s two-story home in Livingston, N.J., is unremarkable by suburban standards, but the businessman’s lawyers have told a judge he is willing to pay $144,000 per month to turn the place into a private jail where he can comfortably await trial on charges he exploited immigrant Chinese laborers. His proposal is [...]
Its corporate reputation lauded as both an ethical and “most admired” corporation, International Paper’s Delaware operations remain challenged by a more than two-month-old strike by 130 Teamsters from Local 284. The union has charged the Fortune magazine “Most Admired Companies 2016” designee and one of Ehtisphere Institute’s “World’s Most Ethical Companies 2016” with anti-family policies [...]