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April 17, 2025
The former CEO of WorldQuant Predictive Technologies LLC cannot reargue failed $6 million stock loss claims against the company from which he was ousted or its law firm Pullman & Comley LLC, a Connecticut trial judge has ruled.
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April 17, 2025
The former Jacksonville office managing partner of Matthiesen Wickert & Lehrer SC has launched a whistleblower lawsuit in Florida state court against the firm alleging she was forced to leave because a paralegal was engaging in the unauthorized practice of law.
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April 17, 2025
Littler Mendelson PC has hired another member of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP's Washington, D.C., labor team, the fifth attorney from that group to move in the past four months, who helped represent the Pac-12 college football conference alongside several former colleagues he's now rejoining.
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April 16, 2025
Staffing and payroll provider DX Enterprises Inc. has reached a $1.52 million deal to end claims that it collected without written consent worker fingerprints that it used to track when laborers punched into and out of a job, with an Illinois federal judge granting final approval.
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April 16, 2025
Arkansas would create an income tax credit for businesses that relocate their corporate headquarters to the state equal to up to 50% of a business's payroll for qualifying employees under a bill approved by state lawmakers and headed to Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
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April 15, 2025
Four current and former Seattle police officers who attended the 2021 Jan. 6 "Stop the Steal" insurrection in D.C. have made an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to stay a ruling by Washington state's high court that barred the officers from litigating their state court privacy claims using John Doe pseudonyms.
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April 15, 2025
A financial adviser accused of stealing clients by his ex-employer Wealth Enhancement Group LLC has urged a Connecticut state judge to reject the company's bid to get his communications with legal counsel at Spencer Fane LLP, saying it relies on an "expansive and unfounded reading" of the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege.
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April 15, 2025
A New Jersey federal judge seemed unconvinced by a law professor's argument that he should reconsider dismissing her lawsuit alleging Kean University violated her free speech, noting during oral arguments Tuesday that he'd already tossed the case twice.
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April 15, 2025
A D.C. federal judge upheld a $120,000 jury verdict against Project Veritas for its sting operation on the liberal consulting firm Democracy Partners, ruling that the conservative activist group's activities are not protected by heightened First Amendment standards because the case involved non-expressive conduct, not speech content.
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April 14, 2025
A California federal jury on Friday awarded Herbalife International of America Inc. $1.55 million in damages from Eastern Computer Exchange after finding the computer equipment reseller deceptively concealed an order for millions of dollars in Dell computers that the dietary supplement company claims it never ordered.
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April 14, 2025
The Michigan Supreme Court breathed new life into a former 911 operator's retaliation lawsuit on Monday, sending the case to a lower court to determine if the state's whistleblower protections cover the operator's criticism of the way a supervisor handled a call.
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April 14, 2025
About 150 former Twitter workers in Washington have sued X Corp., saying that since Elon Musk took over and slashed its workforce, the social media platform has illegally refused to engage in arbitration over claims from laid-off workers who say they have been stiffed on promised severance pay and bonuses.
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April 14, 2025
A Ninth Circuit panel on Monday said a lower court judge wrongly confirmed a zero-dollar arbitration award in favor of Tesla and Elon Musk that dismissed a former Tesla engineer's defamation claims, saying the federal court didn't have jurisdiction because no money was awarded.
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April 14, 2025
The former deputy director of Oregon's liquor and cannabis regulator has alleged in a lawsuit recently removed to federal court that he was wrongfully terminated in connection with a scandal in which agency officials were accused of pocketing rare whiskeys.
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April 14, 2025
One of the largest insurance brokerages in the United States has sued a former employee and her new employer in Georgia federal court, alleging they poached its employees in violation of the ex-worker's confidentiality, nonsolicitation and noninterference agreement.
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April 14, 2025
DiCello Levitt LLP, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and counsel at two Connecticut firms are seeking nearly $20.2 million in fees plus $2.65 million in expenses after hammering out $60.5 million in settlements with the Pratt & Whitney division of RTX Corp. and five contractors accused of illegally agreeing not to hire one another's aerospace engineers.
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April 14, 2025
Small employment and civil rights firms are charting new waters as they take the lead in representing federal workers who have lost their jobs under the new Trump administration.
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April 14, 2025
McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP has reached a settlement with two former executives who the firm accused of stealing millions through fraudulent bonuses and credit card use, capping off nearly two years of hard-fought litigation.
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April 11, 2025
A Georgia federal judge on Friday refused to hand a partial win to Kipper Tool Co. as it battles a False Claims Act suit brought by a former employee, rejecting the company's argument that a portion of the suit is barred by the statute of limitations.
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April 11, 2025
The Trump administration asked a D.C. federal judge on Friday to commit to dissolving part of a preliminary injunction requiring it to pay all grant recipients and contractors for foreign assistance work done prior to Feb. 13, in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
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April 11, 2025
A California federal judge has ruled that an entity backed by cryptocurrency Tether can't escape a trade secrets suit from crypto trading firm Swan Bitcoin, which claims the entity reneged on a commitment to provide financing for a bitcoin mining deal and induced Swan employees to quit and steal the firm's proprietary information.
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April 11, 2025
A D.C. federal judge ordered the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Government Efficiency to start processing 1,000 pages of documents per month to potentially hand over to a watchdog group seeking insight into DOGE's "secretive operations," saying DOGE's actions were of "highest national concern."
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April 11, 2025
Lawsuits seeking to hold Boeing liable for birth defects sustained by children of the company's factory workers were put on hold, after a Washington state judge ruled that an appeals court must first decide if companies have a duty of care for the "not-yet-conceived offspring" of their employees.
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April 11, 2025
An Illinois federal judge said Friday that bellwether plaintiffs suing American Airlines over allegedly toxic employee uniforms didn't have sufficient expert evidence showing that the uniforms triggered the employees' health symptoms, scuttling trials that were scheduled to start this summer.
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April 11, 2025
The Dish Network told a Colorado state judge that a former employee can't bring a class action alleging that its separation agreements contain illegal nondisclosure provisions because she released any claims against the company when she signed the separation deal and collected severance.