3rd Circ. Deems ADA Claims Untimely, Flags Misquotes

By Matthew Santoni

A Pennsylvania hospital employee disclosed her diabetes too late and did not clearly ask for accommodation before she was fired for sleeping on the job, a Third Circuit panel ruled Monday, additionally sanctioning her attorney for filing a minor motion that possibly contained artificial intelligence hallucinations.

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Microchip Co. Will Pay $13M To End Merger Severance Fight

By Kellie Mejdrich

A microchip-maker will pay more than $13 million to settle a long-running class action alleging it illegally shut down a severance program following a 2016 merger, according to terms of the proposed deal filed in California federal court.

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3rd Circ. Clears Supplier Of Safety 'Duty' In Fatal Explosion

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The Third Circuit ruled in a precedential opinion Monday that an industrial equipment supplier did not have a duty to provide safety training to civilian workers who were killed or injured by an explosion in a paint-mixing facility at an army depot.

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BofA Agrees To Pay $4.3M To Settle Unused Vacation Pay Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

Bank of America agreed to a $4.3 million deal to end claims that it didn't pay out unused vacation time for thousands of workers, though the settlement hit a minor setback when a federal judge ruled the plaintiffs set a hearing date too soon after filing their preliminary approval motion.

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CWA Says Microsoft Gutted Game Unions Without Negotiating

By Braden Campbell

The Communications Workers of America has accused Microsoft of including more than 400 unionized video game studio employees in recent mass layoffs without negotiating and urged the National Labor Relations Board to intervene.

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Uber, Lyft Urge Court To Block NYC Driver Deactivation Law

By Linda Chiem

Uber and Lyft have told a Manhattan federal judge that New York City overstepped in enacting an unconstitutional new ordinance prohibiting the ride-hailing companies from "deactivating" drivers without formal notice and investigation, saying that carving out certain provisions from the regulation still doesn't save it from scrutiny.

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Ex-Worker, Ga. Property Manager End ADA Suit Over Firing

By Emily Brill

A property management firm and a former employee who accused it of discrimination have reached an agreement to end the ex-worker's Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit, according to paperwork filed Monday in Georgia federal court.

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Fired Director Accuses Soccer Team Of Gender Bias

By Patrick Hoff

A professional soccer team unlawfully fired its male director of community engagement for disobeying an executive's instructions while female employees were kept on and promoted despite excessive alcohol consumption and racist comments, according to a lawsuit filed in North Carolina court.

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Lowe's Fired Finance Director For DEI Advocacy, NC Suit Says

By Hayley Fowler

A former finance director for Lowe's who is Hispanic was criticized by management and ultimately fired in retaliation for advocating for the promotion and hiring of more Hispanic and Latino employees, according to a federal lawsuit filed against the home improvement giant.

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EEOC Defends Subpoenas In Suit Over NM Native Bias Probe

By Crystal Owens

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said a New Mexico school board hasn't explained why it failed to exhaust administrative remedies to challenge the agency's subpoenas seeking employment and applicant data as part of its investigation into alleged race discrimination.

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Aramark Must Face Seattle Worker's Wage Class Claims

By MJ Koo

A Washington federal judge has allowed most of a campus food-service worker's wage and hour claims to proceed, finding the worker adequately pleaded violations of state meal and rest break laws and willful withholding of wages.

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Firm Fired Paralegal After Wage Complaints, Suit Says

By Benjamin Morse

A former medical malpractice paralegal accused a personal injury law firm and three attorneys in New York federal court of failing to pay overtime, alleging the firm gave her $600 cash after she complained about unpaid wages and later fired her, according to a proposed class and collective action.

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Colo. Corrections Dept. Settles OT Pay Suit

By MJ Koo

A Colorado state corrections agency and a group of criminal investigators who accused it of failing to pay them for time spent on call have reached a settlement in principle in federal court, ending a lawsuit that was headed toward trial.

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Engineers Fight General Dynamics Fee Bid For No-Poach Suit

By Tom Lotshaw

Engineers behind a suit that accused U.S. shipbuilders of using no-poach agreements to suppress industry wages urged a Virginia federal judge to reject General Dynamics Corp.'s push for attorney fees, arguing it has no merit and is aimed at penalizing them.

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Oilfield Services Co. Says OT Suit Must Be Arbitrated

By Benjamin Morse

An oilfield services company urged a Colorado federal judge to compel arbitration of a proposed class and collective action alleging unpaid overtime, arguing the former worker behind the suit agreed to arbitrate wage claims individually before providing services for the company.

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Workers Say They Opted Out Of Wayne-Sanderson Deals

By Matthew Perlman

Poultry plant workers looking to bring claims in state court over an alleged scheme to suppress wages told a Maryland federal court they opted out of nearly $70 million in settlements struck with Wayne-Sanderson.

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Unions Seek To Block Texas Tech Curriculum Censorship

By Katherine Smith

A professors union and its Texas affiliate asked a Texas federal court to stop Texas Tech University's chancellor and board from enforcing policies that, the unions say, censor academic speech on race, gender identity and sexual orientation, arguing the policies will cause irreparable harm to the university's teachers.

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Another NYC Public Defense Union Sets Strike Deadline

By Andrea Keckley

The Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem union became the latest New York City-area legal aid union to set a strike deadline this week, announcing Monday that its over 230 members will walk off the job if they don't reach a deal with their managers by Friday at 8 a.m.

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7th Circ. Backs Arbitrator's Finding That Ill. Hotel Flouted CBA

By Emily Brill

A Chicago hotel can't duck an arbitrator's finding that it needed to employ union workers while operating as a migrant shelter, a Seventh Circuit panel ruled, rejecting the hotel's argument that the arbitration award wasn't grounded in the terms of a collective bargaining agreement.

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Pension Guarantor Proposes Rule On Disclosure Penalties

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. proposed a rule Monday on monetary penalties for failures to provide information on single-employer and multiemployer benefit plans that clarifies how plan sponsors can lower what's owed when they run afoul of their disclosure duties under federal benefits law.

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Ex-Worker Says CSX Can't Avoid FMLA Trial

By MJ Koo

A former CSX Transportation Inc. conductor has urged a Florida federal court to let his medical leave retaliation claims go to a jury, saying the company's investigation into his alleged misuse of approved leave was statistically baseless and fundamentally flawed.

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Michigan Says Airline Sick Leave Suit Lacks Factual Basis

By Susan Smiley

Susan Corbin, director of Michigan's Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, says the state's Earned Sick Time Act does not interfere with airline operations and urged a Michigan federal judge to dismiss an industry group's suit claiming the statute is unconstitutional and interferes with collective bargaining agreements.

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Top Gov't Contracting Cases To Watch In The 2nd Half Of 2026

By Madeline Lyskawa

Federal courts in the latter half of 2026 are expected to decide if the Trump administration overstepped by designating Anthropic a supply chain risk to national security and whether the False Claims Act's qui tam provisions pass constitutional muster, potentially affecting the government's ability to tackle fraud.

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Fluor Whistleblower Says Suit Clears FCA Disclosure Bar

By Elaine Briseño

A former federal prosecutor pursuing labor-trafficking claims tied to a military logistics contract in Afghanistan says his lawsuit revealed previously unknown information that precludes his latest complaint from the bar on public disclosures in the False Claims Act.

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Maurene Comey Pushes For Early Wins In Firing Suit

By Emily Sawicki

Former New York federal prosecutor Maurene Comey has asked a Manhattan federal judge to grant her an early win on five of nine claims she brought against the Justice Department following her July 2025 firing, also arguing that the government cannot secure its own judgment on the pleadings.

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Littler Adds Ex-EEOC Litigator To Chicago Office

By Patrick Hoff

Littler Mendelson PC has added a former Jackson Lewis PC attorney with two decades of experience as a litigator for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as a shareholder in its Chicago office, the firm announced Monday.

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Is your compensation keeping pace with the rate of inflation? Do you know what your colleagues made last year? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's Law Firm Compensation Survey.

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Trump Admin Wants Susman Godfrey DQ In ABA's EO Suit

By Adrian Cruz

Over a year into a suit by the American Bar Association challenging 2025 executive orders targeting law firms, the Trump administration is looking to have Susman Godfrey LLP disqualified as plaintiffs' counsel, alleging the firm can't act as counsel in a case where it's also a key witness.

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Simpson Thacher Points To Audit Issues In Malpractice Trial

By Cara Salvatore

A corporate founder seeking more than $100 million in a malpractice case against Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP endured a withering cross-examination in Florida state court Monday over his companies' money flows and an auditor's refusal to certify their financial statements two years after the fundraising transaction he believes the firm botched.

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Jackson Walker, US Trustee Denied Delay In Romance Dispute

By Emma Cueto

Jackson Walker LLP and the U.S. Trustee's Office, grappling with the aftermath of a romantic relationship between one of the firm's former partners and a then-bankruptcy judge, will not be able to delay pretrial proceedings to continue negotiating a possible settlement, a judge ruled Monday.

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AGs Say DOJ Suit Would 'Upend' Atty Discipline System

By Phillip Bantz

Attorneys general in 20 states have raised alarms over the U.S. Department of Justice's "unprecedented effort" to halt a disciplinary case in D.C. against former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Clark, warning the Trump administration is trying to "upend a centuries-old system of attorney discipline" and put federal government lawyers beyond the reach of local disciplinary authorities.

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Tennessee Lawyer Disbarred For Doxxing Judge, Hiding Client

By Rachel Rippetoe

The Supreme Court of Tennessee on Monday upheld a decision to permanently disbar a family law attorney for harassing a juvenile court judge online and illegally hiding a client and their child from police officers in her home.

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Trump Demands Review Of Judges' Science Manual

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump has escalated a recent controversy over a scientific manual for federal judges that has been around for over three decades. 

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Atty Says Firm Used Info From Merger Talks Against Him

By Christine DeRosa

A Florida-based attorney and accountant has accused DeWitt LLP of retaliating against him after he declined to merge his estate practice with the firm by representing a woman he sued for defamation in a separate case after he had shared confidential information with DeWitt.

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NYC Judiciary Advisory Committee Executive Steps Down

By Andrea Keckley

The executive director of New York City's Mayor's Advisory Committee on the Judiciary has resigned, a City Hall spokesperson confirmed Monday, as the committee's near-total vacancy continues.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week tackled disputes involving intellectual property, corporate control, fiduciary duties, artificial intelligence, trust administration and cryptocurrency litigation.

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