Law 360: Rite Aid Job Applicants Win Round In Background-Check Suit

Law 360: Rite Aid Job Applicants Win Round In Background-Check Suit

Job applicants to Rite Aid Corp. won a round in their fight over the company’s pre-employment background checks, when a Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday denied the company’s motion to strike the designation of the putative class action as related to a similar case, saying both suits share a central core of common facts.

Law 360: Rite Aid Job Applicants Win Round In Background-Check Suit

The Legal Intelligencer: No Wedding Bell Blues

Shannon Duffy covers LGD’s successful representation in Buck v. Stankovic, in a page one article entitled No Wedding Bell Blues in The Legal Intelligencer. A federal judge ruled that a county official cannot deny a marriage license to a couple simply because an applicant does not have a current visa or green card.