Tenet Healthcare Corp.'s CEO and others must be deposed in a lawsuit alleging that the company fired two employees in retaliation for making complaints about alleged unsanitary hospital conditions, a federal district court said.
This decision is another in a string of recent rulings rejecting the so-called Apex Doctrine, a principle that top corporate officers are generally too busy and important to be forced to give testimony.
Denise Bonds and Shenia Rhodes, who worked as housekeepers at a Detroit hospital, allege that the defendants engaged in cost-cutting measures that made the hospital unsafe during the Covid-19 pandemic. They were ...
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A Lanham Act false advertising claim will fail without evidence that consumers were actually misled. That is the key takeaway from Victory Global, LLC v. Fresh Bourbon, LLC, where the U.S. Court o...