Jeremy Rosenthal - Legal Wednesday

JEREMY ROSENTHAL takes a look at some of the legal stories making headlines in this weekly segment:

TOPIC 1- APPLE ACCUSED OF SILENCING WORKERS, SPYING ON PERSONAL DEVICES

Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab has been accused in a new lawsuit of illegally monitoring its workers' personal devices and iCloud accounts while also barring them from discussing their pay and working conditions.  The complaint filed in California state court on Sunday by Amar Bhakta, who works in digital advertising for Apple, claims the company requires employees to install software on personal devices that they use for work allowing Apple to access their email, photo libraries, health and "smart home" data and other personal information.

TOPIC 2- LAWYERS PLAY THE LONG GAME IN $2.7 BILLION NCAA SETTLEMENT

Two U.S. law firms are poised to earn hundreds of millions of dollars after negotiating a $2.7 billion settlement with the National Collegiate Athletic Association that would allow student athletes to be paid for the first time.  But first they have to persuade a judge to approve the landmark deal -- and the unusual, multifaceted fee structure they proposed.  The firms that spearheaded the litigation, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro and Winston & Strawn, have until Friday to respond to groups of students who have already objected to the July settlement, and more litigation is likely once they submit more details of their fee request.

TOPIC 3- AT SUPREME COURT, HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS SEEK RIGHT TO SUE FOR COMPENSATION OF SEIZED PROPERTY

It has been nearly 80 years since World War II officially ended in Europe. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the latest chapter in efforts by the victims of the war’s atrocities to recover confiscated property. At issue is whether a lawsuit by survivors of the Hungarian Holocaust, seeking to recover property that was seized, can go forward, or whether – as the Hungarian government alleges – it is barred by the federal law governing lawsuits against foreign countries in U.S. courts.  More than 560,000 Jews in Hungary, over two-thirds of the country’s pre-war Jewish population, lost their lives at the hands of the Nazis and the Hungarian government during the Holocaust. Most of those deaths occurred in a three-month period in 1944. In November 1944, the Hungarian government declared that all valuables owned by Jews were part of the national wealth. The government then confiscated virtually all of the property – including cash, jewelry, art, and gold – owned by Jews in Hungary.