Elevance Health won dismissal of a proposed class action from a worker who challenged forfeiture spending from an employee 401(k) plan, convincing an Indiana federal judge Tuesday that the allegations failed to state a claim for violating federal benefits law.
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Elevance Wins Initial Toss Of 401(k) Forfeiture Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

Elevance Health won dismissal of a proposed class action from a worker who challenged forfeiture spending from an employee 401(k) plan, convincing an Indiana federal judge Tuesday that the allegations failed to state a claim for violating federal benefits law.

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Political Org. Wins $5.2M In Benefits Bequeathed By NYU Prof

By Grace Elletson

A New York federal judge awarded $5.2 million in retirement benefits from a late New York University sociology professor to the Democratic Socialists of America, rejecting arguments from the professor's nephew that the organization didn't have a right to the cash.

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Insurance Co. Beats Kosovo Citizens' Disability Benefits Suit

By Patrick Hoff

A New York Life Insurance Co. unit defeated a lawsuit alleging it breached Pennsylvania law when it denied disability benefits to 17 Kosovo citizens who supported the U.S. military in Afghanistan, with a federal judge ruling the claims are preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

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LITIGATION

4th Circ. Says DOL Can Argue In Lockheed Pension Suit

By Tom Lotshaw

A Fourth Circuit panel granted the U.S. Department of Labor's request to participate in oral arguments for a Lockheed Martin Corp. appeal challenging a Maryland federal judge's refusal to dismiss a proposed class action challenging a $9 billion pension risk transfer.

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Judge Mulls Pausing Medicaid Work Rule For 'Frail' Recipients

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts federal judge said Tuesday he anticipates deciding by the end of the week whether the Trump administration will have to pause part of a new rule states must follow in determining whether medically frail Medicaid recipients are exempt from new work or school requirements.

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Amtrak Says Arbitral Award Can't Dictate Future PTO Claims

By MJ Koo

Amtrak has asked a District of Columbia federal court to toss a lawsuit brought by two railroad unions over its paid time off accrual policy, arguing the dispute must go to arbitration because it involves the interpretation of existing labor agreements rather than a unilateral change to those agreements.

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Texas Workers Seek To Void IRS Wage Withholding Regs

By Kat Lucero

The Internal Revenue Service's income tax withholding regulations resulted in employers overdeducting taxes from their employees' paychecks, two workers told a Texas federal court, arguing the agency's rulemaking violated the Administrative Procedure Act.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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Simpson Thacher Hung Client Out To Dry, Jury Hears

By Madison Arnold

A legal ethics expert told a Florida jury Wednesday that he believes Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's actions when representing Patriot National Inc. constitute legal malpractice leading up to the insurance services company declaring bankruptcy.

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Senate Postpones Key Vote For AG Nominee Blanche

By Courtney Bublé

The committee vote on acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's bid to take the permanent role, slated for Thursday, was postponed after Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., were not fully on board.

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GOP Bill To Curb Judge Shopping May Have Limited Effect

By Courtney Bublé

A Senate Republican has introduced legislation that he says will fix the judge shopping issue, but court observers don't think it will make much of a difference.

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King & Spalding Told To End 'Shenanigans' In Bid To Exit Case

By Brian Steele

The individual defendants in a $300 million fraud lawsuit have accused King & Spalding LLP of appellate "shenanigans" while it seeks to exit the case due to an alleged ethics conflict, claiming the firm has falsely denied representing corporate clients despite an attorney's appearance suggesting otherwise.

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9th Circ. Vacates Orrick Win In Stock Transfer Deal Dispute

By Hailey Konnath

The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday reversed a lower court's finding that Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP can't be held liable in a battle over a stock transfer agreement gone awry, ruling that California law does allow a party to the transfer to pursue equitable indemnity in the case.

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DOJ Wants To Let Immigration Judges Fine For Contempt

By Britain Eakin

The Executive Office for Immigration Review proposed a rule Wednesday that would allow immigration judges to impose civil monetary penalties for contempt on attorneys, their noncitizen clients and witnesses, operationalizing a power that has lain dormant since 1996.

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Legal Aid Union Alleges Unlawful Incentives To Break Strike

By Andrea Keckley

The Neighborhood Defender Services of Harlem union announced on the third workday of its strike Tuesday that it has filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board, accusing its management of offering unlawful incentives to cross the picket line.

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Former Trump Lawyer Officially Takes The Helm At SDNY

By Hailey Konnath

James McDonald, a former Sullivan & Cromwell LLP partner who represented President Donald Trump in his appeal of his criminal conviction, was sworn in as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday after McDonald's predecessor Jay Clayton departed to serve as director of national intelligence.

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2nd Circ. Backs Ex-Shkreli Atty's 401(k) Restitution Deal

By Lauren Berg

A New York trial judge erred in rejecting a retirement-fund garnishment deal that would have protected Martin Shkreli's convicted former lawyer from tax penalties, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday.

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DOJ Wants New Judge In Fired Court-Appointed US Atty's Suit

By Jack Karp

A lawsuit from the Seattle U.S. attorney who was swiftly fired from his post by President Donald Trump shortly after being appointed to it by a federal court should be reassigned to a different judge, the administration has told a Washington federal court.

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Segal McCambridge Settles Fired Secretary's Age Bias Suit

By Grace Elletson

Law firm Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney Ltd. has struck a deal to end a New York federal court suit from a former secretary who said her colleagues mistreated her because of her age, according to a Wednesday court filing.

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Comey Rips '86 47' Case, Says Warrants 'Misstated Facts'

By Lauren Berg

James Comey is taking another angle in his effort to dismiss an indictment stemming from a picture of seashells he posted on Instagram, telling a North Carolina federal judge that the government is pursuing the "vindictive" case because of President Donald Trump's "deep-seated animosity" toward the former FBI director.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bond Schoeneck

Burns Charest

Cohen & Wolf

Conrad & Scherer

Cooley LLP

Cowdery Murphy

Crystal Pettiford Law

Gibson Dunn

HGT Law

HKM Employment Attorneys

Healy LLC

Hinshaw & Culbertson

Holtzman Vogel

Jones Day

Katten Muchin

King & Spalding

Kolsby Gordon

L'Abbate Balkan

Lennon Murphy

Lynch Carpenter

Markun Zusman

Mayer Brown

Mooney Green

Morgan Lewis

Munger Tolles

Orrick Herrington

Renaker Scott

Rivkin Radler

Schlichter Bogard

Schwartz Conroy

Segal McCambridge

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Stearns Weaver

Sullivan & Cromwell

Wiggin & Dana

Williams & Connolly

Zuckerman Spaeder

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AECOM

Affordable Care LLC

BNSF Railway Co.

Brooklyn Defender Services

Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division-International Brotherhood of Teamsters

Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen

Elevance Health Inc.

George Washington University

Gerald Holdings LLC

Getty Images Holdings Inc.

HDR Global Trading Ltd.

Instagram Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

Lockheed Martin Corp.

McDonald's Corp.

New York Life Insurance Co.

New York University

Patriot National Inc.

Retrophin Inc.

The Cigna Group

Travere Therapeutics Inc.

University of Miami

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Attorney General's Office

California Supreme Court

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Executive Office for Immigration Review

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Internal Revenue Service

Judicial Conference of the United States

National Labor Relations Board

National Railroad Passenger Corp.

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

New York State Assembly

Office of the Director of National Intelligence

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Nevada

United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana