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  • September 02, 2026

    Wireless Provider Claims Utility Slowing Idaho Projects

    A wireless services provider claims a Washington-based public utility is slowing down its Idaho broadband deployments and charging excessive fees, asking the Federal Communications Commission to step in.

  • September 01, 2026

    McLane Model Keeps Drivers Overtime-Exempt, 9th Circ. Says

    A Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday affirmed a lower court's ruling that truck drivers behind a proposed class action against food distributor McLane Foodservice Inc. are exempt from overtime pay, holding that the employees engaged in interstate commerce despite driving only in California.

  • September 01, 2026

    Securitas Can't Arbitrate Wage Class Action, Wash. Panel Says

    A former Securitas worker's proposed wage-and-hour class action against the guard service will move forward following a Washington appeals panel's ruling Monday that upheld a lower court's rejection of the company's bid to force the ex-employee into arbitration.

  • September 01, 2026

    Enviro Groups Sue Forest Service To Halt Logging Project

    Environmental groups led by the Center for Biological Diversity launched a legal challenge in Washington federal court Monday to the U.S. Forest Service's approval of a logging project in the Methow Valley, saying the project would diminish old-growth forests and imperil Northern spotted owls and bull trout.

  • September 01, 2026

    Utz Sued Over Alleged Avocado Oil Chip Labeling Deception

    A putative class action filed Monday in Illinois federal court accuses Utz Brands of falsely marketing Boulder Canyon chips as cooked solely in avocado oil when scientific testing allegedly found the products contained other, cheaper vegetable oils.

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