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Case No. 18-CV-03472
Four unrelated 2018 cases all share docket number 3472, across four different federal courts: a J&J talc products liability case…
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Gayle v. Harry’s Nurses Registry, Inc. | Case No. 12-CV-4764
Four unrelated federal cases from 2012 all share docket number 4764 — one in N.D. California (a pro se mortgage…
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Case No. 16-CV-02218
How can case number 1:16-cv-02218 belong to two entirely different lawsuits — different parties, different subject matter, different judges —…
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How Does a Fair Labor Standards Act Claim End Up in Federal Court?
A wage case brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act ended in summary judgment for a plaintiff who appeared under…
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HNR’s Workers Were Independent Contractors (1099)
Two New York Administrative Law Judges, in 1999 and 2014, found that nurses placed through Harry’s Nurses Registry are independent…
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Nurse or Contractor? Gayle v. Harry's Nurses Registry, 1:07-cv-04672-NGG-MDG
A home-care nurse said she was owed overtime; her agency called her an independent contractor. This 2008 discovery letter in…
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