Analysis

Fixed-Stay Student Visas May Add Burdens For Employers

By Britain Eakin

The Trump administration's new fixed-admission framework for foreign students has U.S. employers and universities thinking through new compliance obligations, with some companies contemplating tracking students' visa expiration dates and taking on their extension paperwork, attorneys tell Law360.

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9th Circ. Revives Ex-Kaiser Worker's Vaccine Bias Suit

By Ben Adlin

A Ninth Circuit panel Friday revived a former Kaiser Permanente employee's discrimination suit accusing The Permanente Medical Group Inc. of unlawfully firing her for refusing a mandatory COVID-19 vaccine, ruling that the worker adequately informed the company of the vaccine's conflict with her sincerely held religious beliefs.

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2nd Circ. Partly Revives NYC Employee's Disability Case

By Hailey Konnath

The Second Circuit Friday vacated a lower court's dismissal of a New York City employee's suit claiming the city failed to accommodate his disability, although it said the trial court was correct in tossing the employee's discrimination and retaliation claims.

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Amazon Accused Of Poaching Warner Exec Under Contract

By Craig Clough

Warner Bros. Discovery sued Amazon in Los Angeles court alleging it poached one of its executives despite her being under contract in "blatant disregard" of the law, and said the move is part of a pattern of behavior of inducing Warner executives to breach their employment agreements.

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'Irreparable': The Lasting Harm Of Justices' Temporary Orders

By Cara Bayles

The U.S. Supreme Court has considered dozens of emergency petitions involving executive policies since President Donald Trump's return to office. While justices often defend their emergency rulings as stop-gap measures, people at the center of those cases — who've lost their legal status, jobs, or federal funding — say that even interim decisions have had lasting effects on their lives.

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Roundup

Employment Authority: DC Circ. Puts NLRB Doctrines At Risk

Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with coverage on how a D.C. Circuit ruling could open NLRB doctrines to more challenges, how an EEOC data-collection debate exposed deep divisions within the agency and what a prominent wage and hour attorney had to say about major cases shaping California employment law.

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7th Circ. Says Jurors Should Weigh HR Manager's Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

The Seventh Circuit reopened a human resources manager's lawsuit accusing a metal castings company of firing her for investigating and documenting workplace harassment, ruling a jury should have a chance to determine whether her termination was connected to her reports.

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Ex-Immigration Judge Says Firing Is Part Of Biased Anti-DEI Push

By Bonnie Eslinger

A former immigration judge has sued the U.S. Department of Justice in California federal court claiming she was pushed off the bench because she is Black and female, and previously advocated for immigrant clients as an attorney — and saying dozens of similarly situated judges were also fired or denied permanent positions.

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Ex-File Clerk Sues Philly Public Defender Office For Bias

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A former file clerk for the Defender Association of Philadelphia sued the organization Friday for discrimination, alleging she faced retaliation for going out on leave to address her parents' health conditions as well as termination because of her age.

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Tesla Sued For Denying Worker's Accommodation Due To THC

By Jonathan Capriel

Tesla Inc. faces a disability discrimination lawsuit from a worker who claims in California state court that it refused to accommodate an ongoing knee disability and disqualified him from transferring to a less demanding role due to his legal medical cannabis usage.

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Property Co. Fired Director Amid Cancer Diagnosis, Suit Says

By Hayley Fowler

The former director of operations for a property management company has alleged in a federal lawsuit that she was fired in the midst of finding out she had cancer, saying her ex-employer knew she might seek accommodations for her diagnosis and sacked her anyway.

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Acquired Co.'s Founder Was Fired For Age, Race, Suit Alleges

By Kia Fatahi

An Ohio-based multinational engineering firm fired the founder of a company it acquired because of his age and race just three days after suggesting that he retire, according to a complaint filed in Pennsylvania federal court Friday.

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Over 100 Legal Aid Staffers Strike In Harlem And The Bronx

By Andrea Keckley

Over 100 legal aid attorneys, social workers and advocates in Harlem and the Bronx went on strike Friday, with the possibility of more to come in the New York City area.

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9th Circ. Affirms Dismissal Of Investor Suit Against SunPower

By Craig Clough

The Ninth Circuit on Friday affirmed the dismissal of a proposed securities class action accusing solar power equipment company SunPower and some of its leaders of concealing a product defect, finding the plaintiffs did not plausibly allege the company had advance knowledge of the issue.

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Pa. Court Won't Hear CSX, Union Contract Dispute

By Katherine Smith

A Pennsylvania federal judge tossed a labor union's suit that accused CSX Transportation of violating a collective bargaining pact by using non-union personnel to train engineers, saying the dispute didn't belong in federal court.

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Ex-Prosecutor Says Ga. City Fired Her For Whistleblowing

By Kelcey Caulder

The former chief prosecutor for the city of Suwanee, Georgia, filed suit in federal court on Thursday, alleging she was fired for blowing the whistle on ethics violations committed by a local judge and an assistant prosecutor.

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Walmart Can't Avoid Suit Over Fatal Road Rage Shooting

By Mike Curley

A Pennsylvania federal judge has refused to throw out a father's suit against Walmart over the shooting death of his son, saying the complaint is enough at this point to allege the shooter was an employee of the store acting within the scope of his employment.

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Opinion

USCIS Delays Shouldn't Mean Detention For EB-5 Investors

Some EB-5 investors with pending petitions were recently detained amid a surge in immigration arrests, but when only U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services can resolve a respondent's status, immigration courts shouldn't retain cases they can't decide, and detention shouldn't replace adjudication, says Jun Li at Reid & Wise.

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Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: July Lessons

In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses four recent rulings involving wage and hour allegations, medical care for incarcerated individuals, oil and gas royalty payments, and nuisance claims.

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4 Cert. Denials Keep Personal Jurisdiction Issues Percolating

After the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions in Ford Motor v. Montana and Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway expanded limits on personal jurisdiction, the justices' denials this term of four certiorari petitions suggest they are content to let jurisdiction questions brew in lower courts before weighing in, say attorneys at Hunton.

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Goldstein Gets 6-Year Sentence, Bond Revoked

By Jared Foretek

Thomas Goldstein, the famed U.S. Supreme Court attorney and founder of SCOTUSblog whose turn into the world of ultra-high-stakes poker ultimately landed him federal tax and mortgage fraud convictions, was sentenced to six years in prison; he was taken into custody and out of court in handcuffs Friday.

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Disciplinary File Opened On Atty Repping Trump In IRS Fight

By James Boyle

A disciplinary file was opened recently on one of the attorneys representing President Donald Trump who helped him reach a deal with the Internal Revenue Service to settle a lawsuit that a Florida federal judge said was meant to "manipulate the judicial process."

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Patriot National CEO Wasn't Simpson Thacher Client, Jury Told

By Madison Arnold

Another Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP attorney took the stand Friday in a Florida malpractice trial brought by the founder of Patriot National Inc. to push back on the idea the founder was actually a client of the firm in the time leading up to his insurance services company declaring bankruptcy.

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Roundup

Balancing The Scales: Geofence Clarity, Post-Hunter Scrutiny

By Orlando Lorenzo

The U.S. Supreme Court deemed geofence warrants as searches under the Fourth Amendment, and the justices’ ruling in Hunter spurs a conversation of what the bar should be for criminal appeal waivers. Here, Law360 highlights access to justice stories arising from litigation, verdicts and judgments you may have missed.

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Feature

The White Collar Boutique 'Renaissance' Is Here

By Phillip Bantz

Unprecedented political pressure on BigLaw, dwindling opportunities at elite firms, powerful legal tech tools and broad slowdowns in white collar enforcement are fueling a remarkable boom in boutique law firm growth, experts say.

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Ala. State Bar Sets Guidance For Atty AI Use, Billing

By Emily Sawicki

The Alabama State Bar has released a formal opinion to guide attorneys on the ethical use of artificial intelligence, cautioning lawyers to be transparent with their clients about their use of AI to avoid unethically inflated billing while encouraging attorneys to utilize the evolving technology.

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'False Innuendo': Sanctioned Davis Wright Atty Rips Fee Bid

By Jeff Overley

A Davis Wright Tremaine LLP partner sanctioned for subpoena tactics is fiercely contesting a plaintiffs firm's six-figure fee bid, telling a California federal court that the request misleadingly cites alleged misconduct in separate litigation, reflecting a "naked attempt to prejudice the court's view of counsel."

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen financial advice firm Smith Square Partners sue ailing social housing company Home REIT, Pogust Goodhead hit with a contract claim by one of its investors, and Entain faced with its latest claim in expanding litigation linked to alleged bribery at its former Turkish business. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

General counsel are gearing up again to help their companies adapt to the impact of a new round of U.S. tariffs. And the chief legal officer of Alphabet and Google lashed out at the European Commission over search engine changes it is demanding, after the EU imposed a $1 billion fine on Google for violating competition laws.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and McGuireWoods LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Fourth Circuit reversed class certification in an investor lawsuit against Boeing over the company's alleged concealment of safety issues with its 737 Max fleet.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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