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• July 01, 2025

  Iowa Judge Halts Law Targeting Pharmacy Benefit Managers

  A federal judge in Des Moines has temporarily blocked an Iowa law regulating pharmacy benefit managers, delivering a significant victory to a coalition of local businesses that argued the statute overstepped federal authority and infringed on free speech.

• July 01, 2025

  Lighting Co. Can't Escape 401(k) Forfeiture, Health Fee Suit

  An Illinois federal judge narrowed a proposed federal benefits class action against an automotive lighting company from an ex-worker, but allowed allegations to proceed to discovery alleging the company misspent 401(k) forfeitures and failed to properly notify workers about a health plan tobacco surcharge.

• July 01, 2025

  Mass. Justices Affirm Insurers Can Tap Workers' Comp Fund

  Insurers who have stopped writing workers' compensation policies but are still paying on older claims in Massachusetts are entitled to partial reimbursement from a state trust fund created to offset the higher costs of covering some individuals, because the money comes from employers rather than the insurers, the state's highest court concluded on Tuesday.

• July 01, 2025

  Amazon Escapes Worker's Military Leave Suit

  A former Amazon employee cannot show that she was fired because she requested to take military leave or because she needed to care for her son, a New York federal judge ruled, saying she can't rebut the company's argument that she was fired for violating security protocol.

• July 01, 2025

  3 Judicial Approaches To Applying Loper Bright, 1 Year Later

  In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference in its Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision, a few patterns have emerged in lower courts’ application of the precedent to determine whether agency actions are lawful, say attorneys at Husch Blackwell.

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