Lack Of Standing Dooms GardaWorld Health Fees Suit

By Mike Curley

A North Carolina federal judge on Friday threw out a suit alleging that GardaWorld Cash Service violated federal employment law with surcharges on its employee health plan for those who use tobacco or refused COVID-19 vaccination after finding that the two named plaintiffs did not participate in the health plan.

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Shoddy 401(k) Funds Cost Stifel Workers $134M, Suit Says

By Grace Elletson

Stifel Financial Corp. allowed its workers to face up to $134 million in losses by failing to boot poorly performing investment funds from its retirement plan in violation of federal benefits law, according to a Friday suit filed in Missouri federal court.

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7-Eleven Can't Shut Down Suit Over Health Plan Tobacco Fees

By Grace Elletson

A Texas federal judge has kept alive a former 7-Eleven worker's lawsuit claiming the convenience store chain illegally charged employees a $720 annual fee if they used tobacco, saying she showed the company may not have done enough to give workers an alternative to paying the fee.

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Benefits Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

By Anne Cullen

This past year, Mayer Brown's team of ERISA litigators persuaded trial courts to shut down several complex cases against big-name clients, including Nordstrom and a Berkshire Hathaway company, landing the group a place among Law360's 2025 Benefits Groups of the Year.

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NYC's Expanded Leave Law Goes Into Effect

By Irene Spezzamonte

Employees in New York City will get an extra, unpaid 32 hours of sick and safe leave every year under an expansion of a city leave law in effect as of Feb. 22.

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Dallas Jury Finds Ex-NFL Player Ran $328M Medicare Scheme

By Spencer Brewer

A federal jury in Dallas has found that former NFL player and Texas laboratory owner Keith Gray orchestrated a $328 million fraud scheme involving billing for cardiovascular genetic testing, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

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Tesla Moves To Claw Back $7M, $10M Interest In Fee Fight

By Jarek Rutz

Tesla Inc. has asked the Delaware Chancery Court to force the lawyers who secured a massive derivative settlement over board pay to return more than $7 million in allegedly withheld fees and pay over $10 million in interest, arguing that they are defying a recent Delaware Supreme Court ruling that slashed their award.

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Florida Cites Costs In Seeking Pause On Medicaid Injunction

By David Minsky

Florida has asked a federal court to pause a class action injunction halting termination of family-related Medicaid benefits for enrollees, saying officials need more time while they tackle the "extraordinary costs" of complying with the order requiring the state to provide case-specific notices to over a million individuals.

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Record FCA Recoveries Signal Intensified Healthcare Focus

In its recently released False Claims Act statistics, the U.S. government's emphasis on record healthcare recoveries and government-initiated healthcare matters last year indicates robust enforcement ahead, though the administration's focus on current policy objectives also extends beyond the healthcare sector, say attorneys at Epstein Becker.

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Del. Dispatch: Workplace Sexual Misconduct Liability In Flux

Following the Delaware Court of Chancery's recent contradictory rulings in sexual misconduct cases involving eXp World, Credit Glory and McDonald's, it's now unclear when directors' or officers' fiduciary duties may be implicated in cases of their own or others' sexual misconduct against employees, say attorneys at Fried Frank.

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Calif.'s Civility Push Shows Why Professionalism Is Vital

The California Bar’s campaign against discourteous behavior by attorneys, including a newly required annual civility oath, reflects a growing concern among states that professionalism in law needs shoring up — and recognizes that maintaining composure even when stressed is key to both succeeding professionally and maintaining faith in the legal system, says Lucy Wang at Hinshaw.

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ABA Says Trump Attacks On Justices Cross 'Dangerous Line'

By Bonnie Eslinger

The American Bar Association on Monday condemned President Donald Trump's "personal attacks" against U.S. Supreme Court justices after Friday's 6-3 decision struck a blow to his tariff policy, saying the remarks "cross a dangerous line that threatens the safety of the judiciary and our judicial process."

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ICE Atty Whistleblower Rips 'Broken' Agent Training Program

By Dorothy Atkins

An ex-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney testified before a Senate committee Monday that he recently resigned so he could blow the whistle on ICE-officer training cuts amid its hiring surge, slamming the truncated program for being "deficient, defective and broken" and accusing supervisors of secretly pushing "blatantly" unconstitutional orders.

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'Wackadoo': 9th Circ. Awarding Stays 'Like Candy,' Judge Says

By Jeff Overley

The Ninth Circuit is defying U.S. Supreme Court precedent and supersizing its immigration docket by freely awarding lengthy deportation reprieves, according to a new dissent that described a "Wackadoo" realm where noncitizens can safely await "the next Democrat administration."

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Feds Fight Ex-Judge's Bid For New Trial In ICE Arrest Case

By Parker Quinlan

The federal government asked a federal judge to deny acquittal and new trial motions made by a Wisconsin state judge convicted of directing a defendant in her courtroom to use a restricted staircase to avoid removal by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

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2nd Circ. Chief Judge To Take Senior Status

By Courtney Bublé

Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston of the Second Circuit will take senior status over the summer, giving President Donald Trump another appellate seat to fill.

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Brief

Snow Delays Goldstein Deliberations Until Tuesday

By Jared Foretek

The jury in SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's tax evasion trial won't be back to deliberate until Tuesday, after snow prompted courts in the District of Maryland to close Monday.

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Analysis

How Greenberg Thinks Tariff Ruling Could Affect Dealmaking

By Al Barbarino

The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling invalidating IEEPA-based tariffs gave dealmakers clarity on how to pursue potential refund rights in mergers and acquisitions, but President Donald Trump's swift announcement of new global tariffs has immediately reintroduced dealmaking uncertainty.

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Analysis

High Court Crafts Escape Hatch In Review Of Climate Torts

By Keith Goldberg

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to determine whether a climate change lawsuit against fossil fuel companies can proceed in state court, but the justices also created a potential off-ramp by questioning whether they can actually hear the case.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jeff Montgomery

Legal fee feuds, noncompete pact breach fights and post-closing "earnout" battles piled up in Delaware's equity and commercial law venues last week, with top jurists briefing lawmakers on efforts to better manage crowded dockets and expanded benches.

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