Many companies have policies forbidding sexual behavior that go beyond legal proscriptions. Still, its worth sorting out where the legal lines lie -- to distinguish the acceptable from the unacceptable, and the legally actionable from the isolated incident.
The suit accuses the company of helping foster substance abuse through a "dangerously false" marketing campaign about the risks and benefits of the drugs.
Turing Pharmaceuticals was warned by New Yorks attorney general that the distribution network for a rarely used cancer drug may violate antitrust laws.
It agreed to repay $84 million to employee benefit plan customers who were victimized through the bank's "standing instruction" foreign exchange trading program.
Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulsons testimony that American International Group Inc. received harsher terms than other institutions getting government bailouts in the financial crisis set the stage for todays examination of a second architect of the rescue.
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. will stop rejecting out of hand job applicants with criminal records and evaluate the individual ex-offenders situation under an agreement with the New York attorney generals office.
Floridas law protecting women against workplace discrimination also covers those who are pregnant, the states supreme court said in overturning a trial court ruling.
From about January 1988 to December 2013, the four primary defendants helped hundreds of applicants falsely claim disabilities in order to collect disability payments in addition to public pensions, according to the Manhattan District Attorneys office.
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