The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it will decide what type of evidence is needed to claim facially neutral admissions policies are racially discriminatory, after turning away two similar cases in the three years since the justices barred the use of affirmative action in higher education.
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it will decide what type of evidence is needed to claim facially neutral admissions policies are racially discriminatory, after turning away two similar cases in the three years since the justices barred the use of affirmative action in higher education.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away former National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox's challenge to a split D.C. Circuit ruling allowing her firing, declining to ponder whether board members' job protections survived last term's decision in Trump v. Slaughter.
Steakhouse servers should benefit from a decision issued by the Connecticut Supreme Court, and then adopted by the Second Circuit, that held Amazon must pay its warehouse workers for time spent going through security screenings, a state court judge heard Monday.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review the dismissal of a Black career counselor's race bias suit alleging a government contractor that aids veterans fired her out of discrimination, declining an invitation to revisit an evidentiary framework set in a landmark 1973 ruling.
The former OpenAI product team engineer accused of hiding a secret recording device in an executive conference room has been ordered to stay behind bars after prosecutors argued he has "considerable resources and ties to Saudi Arabia," according to news reports and the government's motion for detention.
The Port of Seattle and several Washington cities and counties asked a federal judge to block the Trump administration from enforcing new grant conditions that would threaten $87 million in funding, arguing the restrictions lack clear standards of conduct.
A former account manager at Flock sued the surveillance technology company in Texas federal court Monday, claiming she faced a sexist "boys club" culture in the workplace and got fired after complaining about it.
A data company will pay $2 million and face a two-year suspension from a federal program that allows employers to hire foreign workers to settle U.S. Department of Justice probes and related litigation alleging it discriminated against U.S. workers, the federal government announced.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is close to nixing decades-old guidelines that help employers ensure that their hiring practices don't inadvertently discriminate against workers, after the proposed rescission was sent to the White House for review.
A California appeals court has partially reopened a former employee's suit alleging that Northrop Grumman illegally issued multiple wage statements per pay period to some of its workers, ruling that a trial court must decide if the company's actions were in good faith before it can award damages.
Olive Garden cannot trim a collective action that accuses it of tipped wage violations and underpaying employees, a Massachusetts federal judge has ruled, while preliminarily approving an opt-in class of the pasta chain's servers and bartenders.
Delta Air Lines Inc. cheated nonexempt flight attendants out of overtime wages by failing to compensate them for time they spent undergoing security checks, yearly staff training, preparing aircraft for boarding, cleaning planes and other work-related duties, alleges a proposed class action lodged Friday in California state court.
Amazon's challenge to the National Labor Relations Board's order to bargain with workers at a Staten Island warehouse relies on "extraordinarily strained readings of the board's decision" to reject its objections to an election the union won handily, the Teamsters told the Fifth Circuit.
The Federal Circuit will not reinstate a jury's $59.4 million trade secret theft verdict against EOFlow Co. Ltd., rejecting insulin product developer Insulet Corp.'s request for rehearing of a panel decision overturning the award.
Major cannabis company Ascend Wellness has urged a New York federal judge to find that a wrongful termination case brought by a former executive should be thrown out because the company documented a record of inappropriate behavior and fulfilled its duties to communicate its reasons for firing him.
Two former Amazon employees have accused the company of wrongfully forcing its California workers to sign agreements containing a noninterference provision, contending the provision amounts to a noncompetition clause that's forbidden by state law.
An attorney who has decades of experience representing employees in wage-and-hour class actions and Fair Labor Standards Act collective actions against major companies and most recently served as supervising deputy attorney general for the California Department of Justice has joined Jackson Lewis PC.
The Second Circuit recently sided with Starbucks in a ruling that makes it easier for companies to defend dress code policies against unfair labor practice challenges, but employers shouldn't read it as a license to ban union insignia, say attorneys at Shipman & Goodwin.
Data center developers and operators should monitor Virginia legislation responding to the state's new data center accountability framework, local moratoria and the end of an electricity consumption tax, which could change review thresholds, impose new energy rules and slow the approval process, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
In “The Odyssey,” Odysseus succeeds because he abandons the search for a perfect answer, highlighting for litigators why successful advocacy is about making thoughtful choices that circumvent cognitive biases and mental shortcuts, says Veronica Finkelstein at Widener-Delaware Law.
A coalition of 61 retired federal judges has admonished the U.S. Department of Justice for filing a complaint against federal judges in Minnesota for speaking to a newspaper about the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in their state.
Law firm Polsinelli PC has asked a Tennessee federal judge to sanction a medical device company for advancing what it says were "knowingly false and materially incomplete" positions in a suit accusing the firm of pursuing bad faith patent infringement claims on behalf of a client.
A Florida attorney was arrested Tuesday on charges of using his legal bona fides to help run two Ponzi schemes that swindled investors out of nearly $2 million, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
A former New Orleans personal injury attorney has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for his role in a scheme to fake vehicle accidents with tractor trailers and other commercial vehicles so he could pursue lawsuits and extract settlements.
