Partner Josh Hammack Quoted by Reuters in Supreme Court VPPA Article
“The VPPA is a throwback to an era when a trip to Blockbuster to rent ‘Dirty Dancing’ or ‘Die Hard’ was (in the vernacular of the day) totally rad.”
“The VPPA is a throwback to an era when a trip to Blockbuster to rent ‘Dirty Dancing’ or ‘Die Hard’ was (in the vernacular of the day) totally rad.”
Partners Joshua I. Hammack and Michael L. Murphy have been litigating these cases for years on behalf of consumer privacy.
The plaintiffs allege that the defendants mismanaged retirement plan assets by stuffing target date funds in the Intel plans with expensive, opaque, and esoteric private equity and hedge fund investments. These outlier investments caused Intel employees to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in retirement savings.
The cert petition challenges the 9th Circuit’s “meaningful benchmark” rule that requires comparisons to nearly identical funds.
The Chief Justice of the United States appoints the members of the Commission, which oversees the Supreme Court Fellows Program and selects the Fellows each year.