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June 08, 2026
A Pennsylvania man has sued 7-Eleven Inc. after he severed his finger while emptying trash in a dumpster at a Philadelphia location, alleging the convenience store chain fostered a dangerous workplace condition.
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June 08, 2026
At the Delaware Chancery Court, a trial over World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.'s $21.4 billion merger with Ultimate Fighting Championship's parent company has been canceled, and a Reddit investor has filed a suit claiming the company used artificial intelligence to challenge his grievance about a charter provision.
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June 08, 2026
A former immigration judge appointed during the Biden administration said she was fired because she is a woman, a registered Democrat and Hispanic, claiming in a new lawsuit that dozens of similarly situated judges were also fired or denied permanent positions.
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June 08, 2026
The Seventh Circuit revived a lawsuit alleging Kenosha County forced civil immigrant detainees housed at its jail to do unpaid janitorial work or be punished, ruling Friday the forced labor statute doesn't allow local jails to force detainees to work "on pain of solitary confinement" or loss of phone privileges.
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June 08, 2026
A white former New York Times editor joined the EEOC's suit alleging he was unlawfully denied a promotion, asserting Monday that the paper "boldly and badly" ran afoul of a recent U.S. Supreme Court holding that federal antibias law offers equal protection to majority and minority groups.
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June 08, 2026
An assistant football coach at the University of North Dakota has been suspended for one game and the program placed on one-year probation by the NCAA for contacting a player at another school before he officially entered the transfer portal.
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June 08, 2026
Southwest Airlines told a Texas federal judge that a pilot union's lawsuit can't advance under the Railway Labor Act, saying it had the right to discipline a pilot who fell short of standards.
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June 08, 2026
The National Football League has told a New York federal court that former head coach Brian Flores cannot support his "kitchen-sink" of racial hiring discrimination claims against the league and its teams, including his recent allegation of retaliation.
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June 08, 2026
The Ninth Circuit appeared willing Monday to revive a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission disability bias suit accusing a company of spurning an applicant who took prescribed pain medication, with one judge saying the trial court had a muddled view of the evidence.
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June 08, 2026
Pennsylvania window company Graboyes LLC has filed a Chapter 11 petition citing more than $10 million in liabilities, including $2.1 million in disputed loans and an $876,000 "note payable" to the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 21.
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June 08, 2026
A Colorado federal judge has denied a former cybersecurity worker's bid to knock out several affirmative defenses raised by a U.S. Department of Defense contractor against his whistleblower retaliation suit, saying the worker filed the bid before giving the court a chance to weigh in on pre-motion letters.
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June 08, 2026
Following an April ruling that cleared former New York federal prosecutor Maurene Comey's suit challenging the legality of her firing, the U.S. Department of Justice reiterated its position Friday that her firing was constitutional based on the executive powers of the president.
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June 08, 2026
Berman Tabacco, Sperling Kenny Nachwalter LLC, Hilliard Shadowen LLP and five other firms have asked a Massachusetts federal judge for $11.55 million in attorney fees from a $35 million antitrust settlement resolving claims that Teva abused patent protections to delay generic competition for its QVAR asthma inhalers.
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June 08, 2026
A New Jersey state judge has ruled that a former Reed Smith LLP attorney suing the firm for gender discrimination can be deposed nearly two years after her deposition left off, but only after the firm provides long-sought-after discovery documents and completes defendant depositions.
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June 08, 2026
The Seventh Circuit on Friday affirmed an arbitration award requiring a Chicago hotel group to reinstate a union employee fired for displaying a knife at work, saying the arbitrator deemed the incident nonviolent and that courts can't second-guess an arbitrator's factual conclusions.
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June 08, 2026
Oklahoma-based Arnold & Smith Law PLLC on Friday asked a New York federal judge to dismiss a New York attorney's lawsuit accusing the firm of misclassifying employees as contractors to avoid paying benefits, saying there is no reason to believe any of the alleged misconduct happened in New York.
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June 08, 2026
A Colorado federal court entered a default judgment Monday against a Colorado restaurant and its owner that had been accused of operating an unlawful tip pool and retaliating against a server who complained to the U.S. Department of Labor.
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June 08, 2026
Federal law preempts a proposed class action over American Airlines flight attendants' allegedly unpaid overtime before and after flights, since the time flight attendants are paid for is governed by their collective bargaining agreements, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Monday.
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June 08, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge ruled Monday that President Donald Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa payment constitutes a tax that Congress did not authorize the president to impose, declaring the fee unlawful and vacating it in its entirety.
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June 08, 2026
The city of Seattle urged the Ninth Circuit not to revisit a panel decision backing its app-based worker deactivation ordinance against a First Amendment challenge from Uber and Instacart, arguing the companies are trying to turn an ordinary worker protection law into a speech case.
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June 08, 2026
A former casino manager's overtime claims against a Virginia casino were tossed by a federal judge, who found that a sign-on bonus with a repayment condition did not need to be factored into his overtime rate calculations.
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June 08, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to take up a former General Motors employee's suit alleging the company wouldn't move her to a different position after an on-the-job injury, leaving in place a Fifth Circuit ruling that found she hadn't shown she could perform an open role.
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June 08, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court trial over World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.'s $21.4 billion merger with Ultimate Fighting Championship's parent company has been canceled after the parties reached an agreement in principle to settle the case, according to a minute order from Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster.
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June 05, 2026
The D.C. Circuit Friday affirmed the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's decision denying a former trader's bid for a $147 million whistleblower incentive award after he tipped off the agency about foreign exchange market manipulation, saying there's no evidence he was the original source on which the commission relied.
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June 05, 2026
A pair of unions representing former Spirit Airlines employees Friday tore into the bankrupt airline's request to pay executives incentives to keep them on while the carrier winds down its operations, saying there is "no conscionable basis" to prioritize the highest-paid executives at the expense of the thousands of workers who lost their jobs.