ERISA Recap: 6 Important Rulings From July

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Ninth Circuit rejected a fund manager's bid to force a 401(k) suit into arbitration, a district court tossed a pension de-risking suit, and the D.C. Circuit unraveled a union pension fund's $13 million withdrawal liability win.

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Cornell Can't Strike Jury Demand In Recordkeeping Fee Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

A New York federal judge denied Cornell University's request to strike a jury trial demand in a class action alleging that excessive recordkeeping fees dragged down workers' retirement plan savings, saying the class is entitled to a jury because the complaint sought both legal and equitable remedies.

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IRS, Treasury Plan To Float Regs For Retirement Matches

By Zak Kostro

The U.S. Treasury Department and IRS intend to propose regulations to implement a provision of the Secure 2.0 Act of 2022 designed to allow lower-income taxpayers who contribute to their retirement savings to receive a federal contribution of up to $1,000, the agencies said Friday.

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VA To Test Psilocybin For Veterans With Severe Depression

By Jonathan Capriel

Former military service members in five U.S. cities will have an opportunity to treat their depression with psilocybin through a clinical trial being run by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, according to an agency announcement.

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Cable Techs Must Arbitrate Comcast Misclassification Suit

By Nadia Dreid

Cable technicians who say that Comcast and several other companies have been misclassifying them as independent contractors to deny them job protections will have to arbitrate their claims, a Virginia federal court has ruled.

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Manufacturer Unistrut Hit With FLSA Suit Over OT Pay

By Melanie Dorsey

A former Unistrut International Corp. worker filed a proposed collective action in Michigan federal court on Friday accusing the metal framing system manufacturer of shortchanging thousands of hourly employees on overtime by failing to include shift differentials, bonuses and other compensation when calculating their pay.

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Trump Picks Ex-Personal Lawyer As New White House Counsel

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's incoming White House counsel is a former personal attorney for the president who is already working for the White House and was at the U.S. Department of Justice during his first term.

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Ill. Gov. Signs Bill Restricting PE Role In Legal Industry

By Emma Cueto

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed into law a bill designed to target nonlawyer ownership of law firms, outlawing fee sharing with out-of-state alternative business structures and attempting to place restrictions on law firms' use of managed services organizations.

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Spa Fights 9th Circ.'s 'Swinging Dicks' Order At High Court

By Jeff Overley

The Ninth Circuit's rejection of a spa's religious objections to serving transgender customers is incompatible with several major precedents, according to a U.S. Supreme Court petition filed Monday in litigation that soared in prominence when dozens of circuit judges decried a salacious dissent.

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CREXi Can't Stay CoStar Case For Quinn Emanuel DQ Appeal

By Matthew Perlman

A California federal court rejected a bid Monday from Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc., or CREXi, for a stay in CoStar's copyright case while CREXi looks to undo the disqualification of its attorneys from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP.

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Biz Owners Appeal Morgan Lewis Win In Tax Shelter Suit

By Andrea Keckley

A pair of business owners asked the Florida Supreme Court to reverse a decision affirming judgment in favor of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP in a dispute over whether the law firm had routed income through illegal tax shelters.

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