Overdrive

FMCSA update on 'Prohibited Coercion of Drivers' amid widespread ELD cheating reports

FMCSA lays out detailed instructions about how drivers can respond when carrier, brokers or shippers try to force them to ...
JD Supra

Legitimate coercion or unlawful abuse? Assénagon and the power to bind the minority in liability management exercises revisited

Since the decision in Assénagon 1 in 2012, there has been some doubt as to how much coercion can be applied in a consent solicitation that includes an "exit consent" and whether consents that seek to ...
Psychology Today

Coercion as Evidence

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was created with the understanding that survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV)—especially immigrants—may suffer psychological and emotional harm long before ...

Coercion isn't care, and new laws that enforce treatment and confinement are dangerous

The Supreme Court of Canada has described the right to refuse unwanted medical treatment as "fundamental to a person's ...
JD Supra

The EU Anti-Coercion Regulation: A New Tool Against Economic Pressure

As global economic pressures mount, the EU has armed itself with a powerful new tool to counter economic coercion. The EU Anti-Coercion Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2023/2675) has been fully in force ...