Data Breaches, Whistleblowers and Augmented Reality Will Confront Courts in 2017
In re Pokemon Go Nuisance Litigation (N.D. Cal. – San Francisco)
What happens when people playing an "augmented reality" game on their smartphone become a real-world nuisance? U.S. District Judge James Donato of the Northern District of California is set to oversee test cases delving into that question.
Rabin v. PricewaterhouseCoopers (N.D. Cal. – San Francisco)
PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of the "Big 4" of the accounting world, was hit last May with a federal lawsuit in San Francisco alleging that it has systematically attempted to fill its ranks with "millennials" while denying work opportunities to older accountants. It's one of a stream of recent age discrimination suits—others have targeted Silicon Valley firms like Hewlett-Packard—and attempts to take on common corporate practices like university campus recruiting.
Dynamex Operations West v. Superior Court (California Supreme Court)
At stake is whether a worker should be considered an employee—and not an independent contractor—only if the employer demonstrates "control" over the laborer, or if broader factors set out by the state's Industrial Welfare Commission should be considered as well. Those encompass both control over wages and hours, or just requiring or permitting work (known as the "suffer-or-permit" standard).
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