Employment

  • June 09, 2025

    Ex-Yale IT Worker Pulls Payroll Schedule Class Claims

    A proposed Connecticut class action accusing Yale University of paying salaried employees on a monthly basis, rather than weekly or bi-weekly as required by state law, has been withdrawn, court records show.

  • June 09, 2025

    Justices Urged To Keep Pause On 'Breakneck' Gov't Overhaul

    The U.S. Supreme Court should leave in place a California federal judge's order barring implementation of layoffs and reorganizations at various federal departments and agencies, several unions and nonprofits argued Monday, claiming a decision allowing the changes would irreversibly harm the federal government and render Congress and the judiciary powerless.

  • June 09, 2025

    2nd Circ. Nixes Doc's Power Of Atty Deal In Patient ERISA Suit

    The Second Circuit ruled Monday that a doctor couldn't use a power-of-attorney arrangement to sue on behalf of a patient who said their union's health plan illegally stuck them with a $150,000 medical bill, but directed a trial court to determine if the patient can pursue the case.

  • June 09, 2025

    Sales Executive's Commissions Were Wages, NJ Panel Rules

    A New Jersey trial court made a mistake when it ruled that commissions are not wages, a state appeals panel said Monday, reviving a sales executive's wage and hour suit against a technology services company.

  • June 09, 2025

    Judge Tosses Whistleblower Suit Against Pot Tracking Co.

    An Oregon federal judge on Monday dismissed a whistleblower action against Metrc, a company that provides product tracking services for a majority of U.S. regulated cannabis markets, after determining that the issues in the dispute were in play in a prior lawsuit.

  • June 09, 2025

    OneTaste Leaders Convicted Of Forced Labor Conspiracy

    A federal jury in Brooklyn on Monday convicted the co-founder of sexual wellness company OneTaste and her former deputy of forced labor charges in a case alleging they used psychological and sexual abuse to coerce workers into providing labor and services.

  • June 09, 2025

    Janitorial Contractor Fights Portland Labor Peace Policy

    A nonprofit that supplies janitors to the city of Portland, Oregon, is challenging the city's requirement for certain city contractors to enter into labor peace agreements with unions, claiming in a new lawsuit in federal court that the rule is preempted by the National Labor Relations Act.

  • June 09, 2025

    WilmerHale Seeks Full Fed Compliance On Struck-Down Order

    WilmerHale is asking a D.C. federal judge to make clear that a ruling invalidating an executive order against the firm applies to all federal agencies subject to President Donald Trump's directives.

  • June 09, 2025

    Teacher's Attys Get Fee Award In Jan. 6 Free Speech Case

    A Pennsylvania federal judge awarded nearly $1 million in fees and costs to attorneys who scored a win for a teacher who claimed he was unlawfully pushed out for attending a Jan. 6, 2021, rally in Washington, D.C., rejecting a school district's argument that no fee award was warranted.

  • June 09, 2025

    AMC 'Dark Winds' Worker Says Crew Member Harassed Her

    An entertainment company behind the AMC thriller series "Dark Winds" paid a female worker less than her male counterparts and then fired her after she complained that a male crew member had harassed her, she told a California state court.

  • June 09, 2025

    NC Sheriff's Office To Pay $625K To End Workers' Wage Suit

    A North Carolina sheriff's office agreed to pay $625,000 to a class of detention center employees to end their suit alleging they were underpaid because the sheriff paid them for a flat number of hours without considering that their work schedules varied, according to a filing in federal court.

  • June 08, 2025

    Judge Approves NCAA's $2.8B Athlete Revenue Settlement

    The NCAA's $2.78 billion class action settlement that will for the first time provide for revenue sharing with college athletes was given final approval late Friday by a California federal judge.

  • June 06, 2025

    High Court Says Software Glitch Led To Early Order List Drop

    An "apparent software malfunction" caused the U.S. Supreme Court's order list to be issued early Friday, orders in which the justices granted certiorari in four cases and refused to take up a long list of other ones, including cases centered on Pennsylvania's election system and the Obama Presidential Center.

  • June 06, 2025

    Trump Cuts To Federal Library Agency Can Resume, For Now

    Employees of the federal agency that provides grants and resources to public libraries cannot immediately get blocked President Donald Trump's executive order dismantling the agency, a Washington, D.C., federal judge ruled Friday, saying there is a likelihood the case belongs in the Court of Federal Claims.

  • June 06, 2025

    Masimo Fights Ex-CEO's Bid To Ax Suit Over $450M Demand

    Masimo Corp. fought back against founder Joe Kiani's motion to dismiss the company's Delaware Chancery Court suit seeking a declaration that he's not due a $450 million payout after his ouster as CEO, arguing that bid is an "improper attempt to evade" the Delaware court's jurisdiction.

  • June 06, 2025

    Mich. Farm Labor Contractor Trafficked Workers, Jury Finds

    A Michigan federal jury on Friday ruled that a migrant farmworker contractor engaged in forced labor, finding in favor of five farmworkers who said they were coerced into working long hours without pay.

  • June 06, 2025

    Supreme Court Limits Discovery In FOIA Suit Against DOGE

    The U.S. Supreme Court halted discovery Friday into whether the Department of Government Efficiency is an agency subject to the Freedom of Information Act, but left the door open to future, more tailored inquiries about the inner workings of the initiative.

  • June 06, 2025

    Pharma Co. Trade Secrets Case Stays In Fla. Despite HQ Move

    A Florida federal judge on Friday denied a bid to toss a pharmaceutical company's lawsuit accusing a rival of stealing trade secrets because its headquarters moved to the Sunshine State after its initial complaint, saying there was "complete diversity at the time of filing of action."

  • June 06, 2025

    Chancery Pauses Meta Privacy Suit For EU, Ireland Actions

    A Delaware court on Friday paused a pension fund stockholder suit seeking documents on data privacy violations made by Meta Platforms Inc. that led to a €1.2 billion ($1.4 billion) fine from European authorities.

  • June 06, 2025

    Full 11th Circ. Asked To Rethink Workplace Attack Case

    An employee has asked the en banc Eleventh Circuit to rethink its ruling that wholesale restaurant supply store McLane Foodservice Inc. is not liable for injuries suffered by an employee who was set on fire at work by a former partner, arguing it took too narrow a view on foreseeability.

  • June 06, 2025

    Calif. Says Nonprofit Can't Challenge Captive Meeting Law

    California's labor commissioner asked a federal court Friday to toss a lawsuit challenging the state's law prohibiting so-called captive audience meetings, arguing that the nonprofit that sued to block the law lacks standing because it hasn't sufficiently alleged an injury or "a credible threat of prosecution."

  • June 06, 2025

    Unions Say Agencies Can't Handle Resignation Offer Dispute

    Three federal worker unions urged a Massachusetts federal judge not to toss their challenge to the president's deferred resignation offer, saying the personnel agencies the government wants to send their suit to can't decide their claims or give them a fair shake.

  • June 06, 2025

    Employment Authority: Straight Bias Case Could Trigger Suits

    Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with how the U.S. Supreme Court's decision reviving a straight woman's workplace discrimination suit could trigger a surge in cases from so-called majority groups, the birthright citizenship case at the U.S. Supreme Court could start a debate over the role nationwide injunctions play in wage and hour law, and what to expect from a case in the Eighth Circuit mulling Home Depot's challenge to the National Labor Relations Board's ruling that it illegally forced out a worker who wrote "BLM" on their apron.

  • June 06, 2025

    Ore. Pot Regulators Say No Contract In Firing Suit

    The Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission is urging a federal court to throw out a suit from its former deputy director alleging that the OLCC breached his employment agreement by firing him following a whiskey pocketing scandal, saying the state's Statute of Frauds voids the alleged employment agreement.

  • June 06, 2025

    LA Complex Civil Litigation Judge Joins JAMS As Mediator

    JAMS has welcomed a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court judge to its roster who spent more than three decades on the bench, where he presided over individual matters, as well as complex civil litigation from mass torts, labor, toxic contamination and insurance disputes.

Expert Analysis

  • Justices' Revival Ruling In Bias Suit Exceeds Procedural Issue

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in Waetzig v. Halliburton allowed the plaintiff in an age discrimination lawsuit to move to reopen his case after arbitration, but the seemingly straightforward decision on a procedural issue raises complex questions for employment law practitioners, says Christopher Sakauye at Dykema.

  • Bid Protest Spotlight: Prejudice, Injunctions, New Regulations

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    In this month's bid protest roundup, Markus Speidel at MoFo looks at three recent decisions that consider whether a past performance evaluation needs to show prejudice to be successfully challenged, the prerequisites for injunctive relief and the application of new regulatory requirements to indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts.

  • A Judge's Pointers For Adding Spice To Dry Legal Writing

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    U.S. District Judge Fred Biery shares a few key lessons about how to go against the grain of the legal writing tradition by adding color to bland judicial opinions, such as by telling a human story and injecting literary devices where possible.

  • How To Create A Unique Jury Profile For Every Case

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    Instead of striking potential jurors based on broad stereotypes or gut feelings, trial attorneys should create case-specific risk profiles that address the political climate, the specific facts of the case and the venue in order to more precisely identify higher-risk jurors, says Ken Broda-Bahm at Persuasion Strategies.

  • 9 Considerations For Orgs Using AI Meeting Assistants

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    When deciding to use artificial intelligence meeting assistants, organizations must create and implement a written corporate policy that establishes the do's and don'ts for these assistants, taking into account individualized business operations, industry standards and legal and regulatory requirements, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.

  • IRS Scrutiny May Underlie Move Away From NIL Collectives

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    The University of Colorado's January announcement that it was severing its partnership with a name, image and likeness collective is part of universities' recent push to move NIL activities in-house, seemingly motivated by tax implications and increased scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service, say attorneys at Buchanan Ingersoll.

  • What's At Stake In High Court Transgender Care Suit

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    The outcome of U.S. v. Skrmetti will have critical implications for the rights of transgender youth and their access to gender-affirming care, and will likely affect other areas of law and policy involving transgender individuals, including education, employment, healthcare and civil rights, say attorneys at ArentFox Schiff.

  • Considerations As Trump Admin Continues To Curtail CFPB

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    Recent sweeping moves from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new leadership have signaled a major shift in the agency's trajectory, and regulated entities should prepare for broader implications in both the near and long term, say attorneys at Pryor Cashman.

  • 6th Circ. Ruling Paves Path Out Of Loper Bright 'Twilight Zone'

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    The U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright ruling created a twilight zone between express statutory delegations that trigger agency deference and implicit ones that do not, but the Sixth Circuit’s recent ruling in Moctezuma-Reyes v. Garland crafted a two-part test for resolving cases within this gray area, say attorneys at Wiley.

  • NCAA Rulings Signal Game Change For Athlete Classification

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    A Tennessee federal court's recent decision in Pavia v. NCAA adds to a growing call to consider classifying college athletes as employees under federal law, a change that would have unexpected, potentially prohibitive costs for schools, says J.R. Webster Cucovatz at Gilson Daub.

  • 6 Laws Transforming Calif.'s Health Regulatory Framework

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    Attorneys at Hooper Lundy discuss a number of new California laws that raise pressing issues for independent physicians and small practice groups, ranging from the use of artificial intelligence to wage standards for healthcare employees.

  • Opinion

    NCAA Name, Image, Likeness Settlement Is A $2.8B Mistake

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    While the plaintiffs in House v. NCAA might call the proposed settlement on name, image and likeness payments for college athletes a breakthrough, it's a legally dubious Band-Aid that props up a system favoring a select handful of male athletes at the expense of countless others, say attorneys at Clifford Chance.

  • Recent Cases Clarify FCA Kickback Pleading Standards

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    Two recently resolved cases involving pharmaceutical manufacturers may make it more difficult for False Claims Act defendants facing kickback scheme allegations to get claims dismissed for lack of evidence, say Li Yu at Bernstein Litowitz, Ellen London at London & Noar, and Gregg Shapiro at Gregg Shapiro Law.

  • Determining What 'I Don't Feel Safe' Means In The Workplace

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    When an employee tells an employer "I don't feel safe," the phrase can have different meanings, so employment lawyers must adequately investigate to identify which meaning applies — and a cursory review and dismissal of the situation may not be a sufficient defense in case of future legal proceedings, says Karen Elliott at FordHarrison.

  • Steps For Federal Grantees Affected By Stop-Work Orders

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    Broad changes in federal financial assistance programs are on the horizon, and organizations that may receive a stop-work order from a federal agency must prepare to be vigilant and nimble in a highly uncertain legal landscape, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

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