Paul Peter Nicolai
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Says “No-Hire” Provision Unenforceable
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania decided a no-hire provision between competing businesses void as a matter of public policy and...
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Paul Peter Nicolai
- Sep 5
- 1 min
Supreme Court Says Business Registration Subjects Out-of-State Companies Personal JurisdiCTION
The Supreme Court ruled that a company's decision to register for business in Pennsylvania is consent to general personal jurisdiction in...
Paul Peter Nicolai
- Aug 29
- 1 min
Landlord And Tenant – Email Notice For Option
A commercial tenant asked for a declaratory judgment that it had provided proper notice of its option not to renew its lease. The trial...
Paul Peter Nicolai
- Aug 22
- 2 min
Supreme Court Says Appeal From a Denial of a Motion to Compel Arbitration Stops Trial Proceedings
The US Supreme Court has decided that an appeal of a denial of a motion to compel arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA)...
Paul Peter Nicolai
- Aug 1
- 4 min
Supreme Court Adopts Heightened Undue Hardship Standard in Title VII Religious Accommodation
Employers must modify their practices when evaluating requests for religious accommodations under Title VII. Undue hardship is no longer...
Paul Peter Nicolai
- Jul 25
- 1 min
Lease Not Frustrated by Pandemic Shutdown
A trial court ruling favoring a commercial landlord was affirmed because shutdown orders issued during the COVID-19 pandemic did not give...
Paul Peter Nicolai
- Jun 13
- 2 min
INFORM Consumers Act Requires Verified Unauthorized Third-Party Seller Information
Anonymous unauthorized third-party sellers are a nagging problem for most brands. Although some online marketplaces have taken steps to...
Paul Peter Nicolai
- May 30
- 1 min
Delaware Court Confirms Corporate Officers Owe the Same Fiduciary Duties as Directors
The Delaware Court of Chancery denied a motion to dismiss filed by a former employee of the former employer’s claims that he breached his...
Paul Peter Nicolai
- May 16
- 2 min
$17 Billion in Damages for Fingerprinting Employees
The Illinois biometric privacy law says no private entity may collect, capture, purchase, receive through trade, or otherwise obtain a...
Paul Peter Nicolai
- May 9
- 1 min
Product Disparagement Claim Survives
A medical device company that designs and manufactures customized hip and knee replacements sued an insurance company that characterized...
Paul Peter Nicolai
- May 2
- 1 min
COVID-19 Worker Compensation Denied
A registered nurse filed a Massachusetts worker's compensation claim for temporary total incapacity benefits saying she contracted...
Paul Peter Nicolai
- Apr 28
- 1 min
Profit from selling an urban redevelopment project is not subject to taxes
According to the Massachusetts Supreme Court, the state cannot impose taxes on the capital gain earned from the sale of an urban...
Paul Peter Nicolai
- Apr 18
- 1 min
Burden of Proving Overtime Exemption Toughened
The US District Court gave an employer a summary judgment in an overtime case, concluding that the dispatchers and controllers fell...
Paul Peter Nicolai
- Apr 4
- 1 min
Commercial Lease Damages Denied
A tenant defaulted on a commercial lease two months after entering into a five-year lease. As is frequently the case in commercial...
Paul Peter Nicolai
- Mar 21
- 2 min
Right to Modify Employee Handbook Voids Arbitration
An employer who puts an arbitration agreement in an employee handbook cannot enforce it if it maintains the right to modify the handbook....
Paul Peter Nicolai
- Mar 14
- 1 min
Home Improvement Contractor Law Expanded
A contractor mismanaged funds paid by homeowners so that he needed more money to finish the project, failed to pay subcontractors, and...
Paul Peter Nicolai
- Mar 7
- 1 min
Wage Act Damages & Fees
An employer failed to pay $8,952.15 in accrued vacation pay when it discharged an employee. It paid the accrued vacation pay three weeks...
Paul Peter Nicolai
- Feb 21
- 2 min
Disclosure Of Secrets To A Competitor Not Actionable.
A federal court affirmed the dismissal of a trade secret lawsuit where the plaintiff disclosed confidential information on a call with an...
Paul Peter Nicolai
- Feb 14
- 1 min
Pop-Up Arbitration Notice Fails
A plaintiff was injured when an Uber driver collided with another vehicle. Uber asked to compel arbitration. It was denied because the...
Paul Peter Nicolai
- Feb 14
- 1 min
Corporate Veil Protected
Homeowners sued a corporation and its owner over a remodeling project gone bad. The homeowners said the company owner should be liable...
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