Trump Picks Panel To Consider Claims Against Fed's Cook

By Jon Hill

President Donald Trump has established a committee to investigate mortgage fraud allegations against Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook and to determine if they provide sufficient grounds to fire her, according to a memo released Friday by the White House.

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Legal Marketing Co. Inks $600K Call Center Rep Wage Deal

By MJ Koo

Legal marketing company Lawyer.com Inc. agreed to pay $600,000 to settle claims in a New Jersey federal court that it misclassified call center representatives as independent contractors and failed to pay them overtime wages required under federal law.

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Machinery Co., EEOC Strike $200K Deal In Disability Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

A heavy machinery dealer agreed to pay $200,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging it fired an employee after knee surgery rather than let her return to work with an accommodation, according to a filing in Colorado federal court.

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Whole Foods Defeats Ex-Worker's Race Bias, Retaliation Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Whole Foods defeated a former employee's lawsuit alleging he was fired because he's Black, with an Illinois federal judge concluding he couldn't overcome the supermarket chain's explanation that he was let go for fudging the time he was at work.

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CU Boulder Hiked Fees For Records Requests, Suit Says

By Zach Dupont

An administrator at the University of Colorado Boulder claimed in Colorado state court Thursday that the school improperly withheld and attempted to overcharge for records requested related to harassment he experienced under the Colorado Open Records Act.

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Roundup

Employment Authority: Calif. Sets Up New Workplace AI Rules

By Patrick Hoff

Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with coverage on questions about California's new laws regarding how employers use artificial intelligence, a new challenge to long-standing National Labor Relations Board precedent about union elections, and how New York City's new data research division plans to bolster the city's wage and hour enforcement work.

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Veterinarian Says He Was Axed For Flagging Bias, Harassment

By Kelcey Caulder

A veterinarian filed suit against a Georgia animal hospital in federal court, alleging the company fired him in retaliation for complaining about race discrimination, sexual harassment and disability discrimination he faced in the workplace.

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Texas Firm Aims To Sink Ex-Attorney's Military Bias Suit

By Rose Krebs

The Law Offices of Allen Rad PC on Friday urged a Texas federal court to dismiss a discrimination lawsuit filed by a former attorney who alleges he was terminated because of his Texas National Guard service, arguing the complaint is factually deficient.

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Campbell's Driver Wage Suit Counterclaim Survives For Now

By George Woolston

A North Carolina federal judge denied a bid to toss Campbell's Co.'s unjust enrichment counterclaim against a proposed class of drivers alleging they were misclassified as independent contractors instead of employees, finding it too early in the litigation to do so.

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Florida Roofer Says He Asked About Overtime Pay, Got Fired

By David Minsky

A roofer has brought Florida federal proposed collective action alleging the owner of two construction companies didn't pay overtime, claiming he was terminated from employment soon after asking questions about time-and-a-half wages. 

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States Fight DOL's Ax Of Unemployment Insurance Grants

By Madeline Lyskawa

Fourteen states sued the federal government in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on Friday, alleging the U.S. Department of Labor wrongfully terminated grants intended for modernizing their unemployment insurance programs.

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Roundup

ERISA Recap: 6 Notable Decisions From September

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Tenth and Seventh circuits issued published opinions in two union retirement disputes, while the Sixth Circuit found that the Commonwealth of Kentucky's lawsuit against pharmacy benefit managers does not belong in state court, citing colorable federal preemption arguments. Here's more on those decisions and three other notable rulings involving the Employee Retirement Income Security Act that came down in September.

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Mill Co. Says It's Immune To Suit Over Deadly Tank Collapse

By Rachel Riley

Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co. LLC, which runs a Pacific Northwest pulp and paper mill where 11 employees died after a chemical tank burst in May, has told a Washington judge that a wrongful death suit over the incident can't proceed because of the state's workers' compensation law.

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Squire Patton, Holland & Knight Report Data Breaches

By Jake Maher

Squire Patton Boggs LLP and Holland & Knight LLP were hit with cyberattacks exposing sensitive information, according to disclosures filed this week.

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Up Next At High Court: Criminal Sentences & Video Privacy

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will close out its October sitting by hearing oral arguments in two cases that ask what level of deference federal district courts should give to commentary interpreting the federal sentencing guidelines, and what purchases are protected under a video consumer privacy statute.

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DOJ Aims To 'Attack Fraud From All Angles' Via New Division

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Department of Justice's new fraud division has issued fresh guidance on its prosecution methodology, with the division's head directing prosecutors to seize assets before indictments and pursue upward variances in sentencing guidelines in some cases as part of a stated push to use the division's "full arsenal of criminal statutes" in combating fraud.

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Ill. Judge Lays Out Doc Demands For DOJ Misconduct Probe

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge asked the government Friday to turn over six months of communications and certain other records as she investigates in-court inaccuracies Chicago prosecutors offered while prosecuting six anti-immigration protesters, rejecting its request to seal a filing in the process.

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Atty With False AI Citation Filings Ordered To Pay $39K

By Bonnie Eslinger

A New York federal judge who imposed case-terminating sanctions on an attorney who submitted filings with false citations generated by artificial intelligence ordered him on Friday to pay nearly $39,000 to lawyers who uncovered the problematic AI use, noting he had given them the "runaround" when they tried to collect directly.

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Grassley Attacks Dems' Claims Of Rule-Breaking Over Hearing

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, clapped back at Democrats for their accusations that Republicans broke Senate rules during a hearing last week at which former special counsel Jack Smith appeared.

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Calif. Jurists' Atty Tips: 'Emulate Lincoln,' 'Don't Be Boring'

By Bonnie Eslinger

Three current and former Northern California federal judges and one Morrison Foerster LLP partner during a Federal Bar Association panel discussion Thursday gave attorneys tips on "courtroom persuasion," including knowing the judges, keeping things interesting and, like the nation's 16th president, getting quickly to the winning point.

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Brief

Legal Services NYC Gets $2.5M To Build Novel Resource Hub

By Tracey Read

Legal Services NYC announced Friday that it has been awarded a $2.5 million grant from the New York State Interest on Lawyer Account Fund to create a first-of-its-kind statewide knowledge-sharing platform to help legal advocates spend more time seeking justice for low-income clients.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

The new federal fraud division is threatening faster action and broader targets under a new enforcement policy announced recently. And the SEC warned shareholder advocacy groups that join forces could face legal scrutiny in the future. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.​

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Alston & Bird LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Sixth Circuit overturned a pivotal decision in multidistrict opioid litigation that had dramatically expanded claims against the nation's largest pharmacy benefit managers.

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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 PrivatBank sue its former oligarch owner, building materials provider Kingspan face a €100 million ($112 million) claim over Grenfell Tower cladding and energy giants VaroPreem and Viaro Energy become embroiled in an intellectual property row.

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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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