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• April 07, 2026

  11th Circ. Reinstates Ex-Pepsi Worker's Title VII Race Bias Suit

  The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday revived a Black former Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. employee's suit alleging he was fired for complaining about racist harassment, saying the lower court relied too heavily on a long-established legal framework for analyzing workplace bias evidence when dismissing his case.

• April 07, 2026

  Keurig's K-Cup Pods Are Largely Unrecyclable, Suit Says

  Keurig Dr Pepper was hit with a proposed class action in California federal court Tuesday alleging that it misleads consumers into believing that its single-serve plastic coffee pods are recyclable despite the fact that most recycling centers in the country don't accept them due to their size, irregular shape and other characteristics.

• April 07, 2026

  Wash. Panel Nixes Insurer's Gordon Rees Malpractice Claims

  A Washington Court of Appeals panel said a Great American insurance unit can't inherit an equipment manufacturer's legal malpractice claims against Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP and Sinars Slowikowski LLC because of "potential conflict" between the insurer and manufacturer in the underlying dispute over a climber's fall.

• April 07, 2026

  Squires Panel To Rehear Herd Management Patent Invalidation

  U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has convened a rehearing panel to reconsider whether a Patent Trial and Review Board decision that invalidated an animal management patent had done so properly.

• April 07, 2026

  Chipotle Worker In Seattle Alleges Scheduling Law Violations

  Restaurant chain Chipotle violated two Seattle employment laws by failing to provide workers with adequate notice of scheduling adjustments and withholding additional pay owed to those affected by late scheduling changes, according to a proposed class action in Washington state court.

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