2 NLRB Picks Advance, 1 Member Nom Stalls

By Braden Campbell

The U.S. Senate labor committee on Thursday cleared two of the president's nominees to the National Labor Relations Board — including the general counsel pick whose nomination appeared stalled — but withheld a third whose ties to Boeing drew criticism at his confirmation hearing last week.

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Calif. Enacts Law To Boost Pay Parity Protections

By Grace Elletson

A California law aimed at increasing the accuracy of the compensation estimates that state employers are required to include in job postings and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom makes clear that perks such as stock options are considered wages and expands the limitations window for pursuing pay bias claims.

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Investment Co. Hit With $8.9M Jury Verdict In Retaliation Suit

By Patrick Hoff

An investment management firm should pay a French-Canadian former employee nearly $8.9 million, a California federal jury said, finding that the company had unlawfully fired him for complaining that his boss belittled him because of his national origin.

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Ex-NFL Player Says League Policy Doesn't Steer THC Suit

By Rachel Konieczny

A former NFL player is fighting to keep his discrimination lawsuit against the league and his former team alive in Colorado federal court, saying his claims that the NFL and the Denver Broncos punished him for requesting a therapeutic-use exemption for synthetic THC are not preempted by the league's collective bargaining agreement.

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Brief

Feds' E-Verify System Resumes Operation During Shutdown

By Tom Lotshaw

The federal E-Verify system for employers to check people's eligibility to work in the U.S. has resumed operation, a little over a week after it went offline with the start of the ongoing government shutdown.

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University Of Illinois Chicago, Black Director Settle Bias Suit

By Lauraann Wood

The University of Illinois Chicago and a Black former purchasing director have settled discrimination claims she lodged over pay discrepancies between herself and white colleagues with similar or less experience and over early retirement pressures she faced so that a younger, white subordinate could succeed her.

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General Mills Workers Must Redo 'Behemoth' Race Bias Suit

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal magistrate judge ordered a proposed class of General Mills employees alleging their plant is run by a white supremacist clique to rewrite their "behemoth" complaint, calling their claims "very troubling" but "nearly impossible" to follow and questioning if they could survive as a class action.

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Fired Jets Executive Fights Team's Use Of 'Privileged' Texts

By Elaine Briseño

A former finance executive suing the New York Jets for an alleged retaliatory firing after her husband reported sexual harassment by the team's president now seeks an injunction to stop the organization from publicly disclosing or discussing certain text messages between her and her spouse.

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'Moonlighting' Atty Must Arbitrate Wage Claims, Ga. Firm Says

By Kelcey Caulder

John Foy & Associates PC told a Georgia federal court that a former firm attorney breached her employment agreement by "moonlighting" with another firm during her employment and then filing a wage suit against John Foy & Associates instead of pursuing her claims in confidential arbitration.

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Retailer Faces Class Action Over Excluding Bonuses From OT Pay

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado retail supplier was hit with a proposed collective action in federal court Thursday from a former employee who said it failed to properly calculate overtime premiums.

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NASA Union Files Suit Challenging End Of Bargaining Rights

By Emily Brill

An engineers' union representing NASA employees has challenged President Donald Trump's executive order limiting workers' bargaining rights at certain federal agencies, arguing in D.C. federal court that he violated the union's rights under the First and Fifth Amendments by ending its longstanding presence at the agency.

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Anti-Union Firm Joins Fight Against Calif. Cannabis Labor Law

By Emily Brill

An anti-union group has thrown its weight behind a cannabis retailer's challenge to a California law that requires marijuana businesses to sign labor peace agreements with unions, arguing before the Ninth Circuit that the law is preempted by the National Labor Relations Act.

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Tire-Maker Takes 13 Revived Asbestos Suits To NC High Court

By Hayley Fowler

Continental Tire is asking North Carolina's top court to review whether more than a dozen workers' compensation cases linked to alleged asbestos exposure at one of its factories should carry on, saying the claimants cannot skirt the results of a bellwether trial.

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BeFrugal Marketing Firm Says Exec Steered Clients To Rival

By Julie Manganis

Affiliate marketing firm BeFrugal said in a lawsuit this week in Massachusetts state court that a senior vice president secretly co-founded a competing company, then steered major clients, including DirecTV and Samsung, to the new business.

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Cannabis Co. Says 'Disgruntled' Employee Stole Trade Secrets

By Jonathan Capriel

New Jersey cannabis products maker Kushi Labs LLC is suing its former employees, claiming they stole confidential trade secrets and took them over to a rival manufacturer, according to a federal lawsuit seeking at least $750,000 in damages.

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Biotech Wins $367K From Ex-CEO In Conn. Conversion Suit

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut jury has ordered the fired CEO of a flavoring and aroma firm, who is also a tax attorney, to pay the company more than $367,000 plus punitive damages after agreeing that he improperly sent himself money around the time of his termination and breached his fiduciary duties.

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Hemp Co. Asks Del. Court To Defer Ex-Exec's Suit To Australia

By Jarek Rutz

An Australian hemp manufacturer and its U.S. subsidiaries asked a Delaware federal judge Thursday to dismiss or pause a lawsuit filed by a former executive-turned-whistleblower, arguing the case should be deferred under international comity principles.

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Teamsters Want Court To Reconsider Maverick Gaming Sale

By Emlyn Cameron

A Teamsters local asked a Texas bankruptcy judge to rethink his order permitting RunItOneTime LLC to sell assets to a company managed by one of its founders, saying the bankruptcy court lacked jurisdiction to decide that the two weren't essentially the same business.

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Series

Painting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Painting trains me to see both the fine detail and the whole composition at once, enabling me to identify friction points while keeping sight of a client's bigger vision, but the most significant lesson I've brought to my legal work has been the value of originality, says Jana Gouchev at Gouchev Law.

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Sullivan & Cromwell Impersonators Hit With NY Fraud Claims

By Emily Sawicki

New York Attorney General Letitia James is attempting to take down a slew of businesses whose names are variants of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, accusing them of attempting a scheme to fraudulently redirect checks meant for the global corporate law firm.

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Analysis

False-Statement Case Puts Comey In Rare Company

By Phillip Bantz

Former FBI director James Comey is the latest addition to the relatively short list of government officials who have been criminally charged over the past several decades with making false statements to Congress.

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NY Atty General Indicted Following Pressure From Trump

By Lauren Berg

New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted in Virginia federal court Thursday on charges related to mortgage fraud, three weeks after President Donald Trump wrote a social media post encouraging U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to take action because James and two other political opponents were "guilty as hell."

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Tort Report: Nuked 'Nuclear Verdict' Stays, Texas Justices Say

By Y. Peter Kang

The fate of a "nuclear verdict" that was used to jump-start tort reform campaigns across the country and a settlement of a suit over a Kiss guitar technician's death lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.

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Jenn Mascott Of WH Counsel's Office Confirmed To 3rd Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 50-47 on Thursday to confirm Jenn Mascott, currently serving in the White House Counsel's Office, to the Delaware seat on the Third Circuit.

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7th Circ. Nominee Taibleson Advances To Full Senate

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced on party lines the nomination of Rebecca Taibleson, a federal prosecutor in Wisconsin, to serve on the Seventh Circuit, as well as four district judicial nominees and five U.S. attorney nominees.

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Baldoni Atty Faces LA Malpractice Suit Over Client 'Betrayal'

By Emily Sawicki

Entertainment attorney Bryan Freedman has been accused in Los Angeles County Superior Court of turning his back on a former client, allegedly convincing him to sign an unfavorable settlement on trademark claims against "It Ends With Us" star Justin Baldoni, only to later begin representing the actor and director.

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Calif. Supreme Court Justice Martin Jenkins To Retire

By James Mills

California Supreme Court Justice Martin J. Jenkins, the first openly gay man and the third African American man to sit on the bench, will retire at the end of October, the court announced Thursday.

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Weinstein Says Jurors Traded Threats, Tainting Verdict

By Cara Salvatore

Harvey Weinstein's legal team said his June sexual assault convictions were tainted by juror misconduct, including physical threats and an unfounded bribery claim, arguing in a motion for a new trial that a judge refused to properly investigate.

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