Ex-EEOC Vice Chair Drops Suit Contesting Her Firing

By Vin Gurrieri

Former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission member Jocelyn Samuels dropped a suit on Monday challenging her dismissal by President Donald Trump, saying the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision endorsing presidents' broad authority to remove independent agency officials left her with little legal recourse.

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DOL Adds Child Labor, Tip Credit Regs In Latest Rule List

By Max Kutner

The U.S. Department of Labor unveiled an updated agency rule list that contains newly announced plans for child labor and tipped worker changes and provides updated time frames on previously announced proposals.

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PWFA, Guidance Rollbacks Highlight New EEOC Reg Agenda

By Vin Gurrieri

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission plans to float a revision of its Pregnant Workers Fairness Act regulations and scrap decades-old guidance pertaining to sex and national origin bias by the end of the year, according to an updated regulatory agenda unveiled by the Trump administration.

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Judge Rejects AFL-CIO's Bid To Delay Union Disclosure Rule

By Jared Foretek

A D.C. federal judge has rejected the AFL-CIO's request to delay a U.S. Department of Labor rule requiring more detailed union financial disclosures Thursday, ruling that the union failed to show how it would suffer irreparable harm from the rule's implementation.

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Kasowitz Sued Over College Antisemitism Settlement Fees

By Adrian Cruz

A group of Columbia University students who reached a settlement with the school over alleged antisemitism on campus accused Kasowitz LLP of wrongfully taking over $6 million from the deal and engaging in "self-dealing and misappropriation."

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Walmart Pays $13M To Settle Texas AG's Driver Pay Claims

By Spencer Brewer

Walmart Inc. has agreed to pay $13 million to settle claims brought by the Texas attorney general alleging the company stiffed delivery drivers participating in its Spark Driver program, and said it will additionally implement "honest" compensation practices going forward.

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Analysis

After Tense Terms, Hints Of High Court Harmony With Circuits

By Jeff Overley

Following several U.S. Supreme Court terms teeming with reversals and rebukes of lower appeals courts, the justices this term found fault less often with rulings by circuit judges, who are likely becoming better attuned to the conservative supermajority, attorneys say.

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Analysis

The Moments That Shaped The Monsanto Decision

By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader

U.S. Supreme Court justices forged unusual alliances when they ruled a federal statute preempts claims Monsanto failed to warn consumers its Roundup weed killer may cause cancer. Oral arguments provided insights on the 7-2 outcome, highlighting issues the jurists were grappling with and showcasing rationales that found their way into the opinion.

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Feature

The Funniest Moments Of The Supreme Court's Term

By Jeff Overley

When one of the U.S. Supreme Court's most talkative members suddenly struggled to speak, the atmosphere at oral arguments grew increasingly anxious — until the justice deadpanned that it was an advocate's golden opportunity to avoid a grilling.

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3rd Circ. Backs BNY In Ex-Portfolio Manager's Bias Suit

By Benjamin Morse

The Third Circuit on Monday upheld Bank of New York Mellon's win in a Black former portfolio manager's race bias and retaliation suit, finding he failed to show his firing was racially motivated or that a reorganization masked retaliation for his complaints.

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Workday Can't Get Quick Appeal In AI Bias Suit

By Benjamin Morse

Workday can't ask the Ninth Circuit to immediately review a ruling allowing job applicants to bring disparate impact claims under federal age bias law in a suit alleging the company's artificial intelligence tools discriminated against them, a California federal judge ruled, saying a midcase appeal would not advance the litigation.

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Insurer Looks To Knock Out Expert In Employment Trial

By Cara Salvatore

An annuity salesperson whose hostile work environment claim against Jackson National Life Insurance Co. was revived by the Tenth Circuit urged a Colorado federal judge Monday not to bar from trial a damages expert the company says the plaintiff denounced.

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Atlanta History Center Sued Over Post-Surgery Firing

By Kelcey Caulder

Atlanta History Center's former director of children's experience alleged in a new federal lawsuit that she was put on unpaid administrative leave and ultimately fired after a surgical procedure required her to request light or remote work accommodations.

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Firing Range Exec Axed Over Support For Veterans, Suit Says

By Patrick Hoff

A firearms training provider unlawfully fired an executive because he opposed the CEO's disparagement of military veteran employees as "lazy and unmotivated," according to a lawsuit filed in Georgia federal court.

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NM School Board Says EEOC Bias Probe Seeks Private Data

By Crystal Owens

A New Mexico school board has said the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission doesn't hold any authority to enforce subpoenas seeking seven years of applicant and employment data to investigate an alleged race discrimination charge against the board, telling a district court its suit against the federal agency must be first resolved.

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Contractor Says Former Exec's Gender Bias Claim Belongs In Va.

By Patrick Hoff

A defense contractor urged a Colorado federal court to toss a female former executive's gender bias claim alleging she was fired for reporting a male manager's $1.9 million fraud scheme, arguing the claim belongs in Virginia because her employment stemmed from that state and the company is based there.

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NJ Bank Defeats Ex-Manager's Bias Suit Tied To Security Lapse

By MJ Koo

A New Jersey appeals court ruled Monday that a bank was justified in firing a longtime branch manager who failed to ensure employees followed security protocols, rejecting her claims that the termination was motivated by age discrimination or retaliation.

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Ex-Rehab CEO Says Smear Campaign Forced His Ouster

By Brian Steele

Numerous directors and executives of a high-end residential addiction rehab center in Connecticut engaged in a concerted pattern of spying, lying and character assassination that forced the facility's president and CEO to quit, according to a sprawling new lawsuit in state court.

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Paralegal Says NC Law Firm Fired Her Out Of Disability Bias

By Grace Elletson

North Carolina law firm Whitaker & Hamer PLLC fired a paralegal after she asked to bring her service dog to work and for additional time off to manage flare-ups of her disability, according to a Monday lawsuit the former employee filed in federal court.

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Kim Kardashian's Skims Accused Of Systematic 'Wage Abuse'

By Gina Kim

Kim Kardashian's Skims retail company executed a "scheme of wage abuse" to increase its profits by failing to pay overtime wages to hourly employees and denying them legally required meal and rest breaks, alleges a Private Attorneys General Act representative action lodged Monday in California state court. 

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CSX Must Face Workers' Retaliation Claims In FMLA Suit

By Grace Elletson

A Maryland federal judge trimmed but declined to completely toss a suit from a trio of CSX Transportation Inc. workers who said they were suspended or fired for taking medical leave during holidays, saying a jury needs to probe whether a crackdown on dishonesty drove the discipline or retaliation.

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ConEd Partners Exploit Foreign Workers, Suit Claims

By Holly DeMuth

Two companies partnered with Con Edison targeted immigrants from the country of Georgia and required them to work 50- to 90-hour weeks under conditions "tantamount to human trafficking" for far less than minimum wage, according to a proposed class action filed in New York federal court Monday.

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Insurance Co. Shorted Auditors On OT, Suit Says

By MJ Koo

A workers' compensation insurance company has been sued by a premium audit consultant who claims it failed to pay overtime wages to workers who regularly clocked far more than 40 hours a week, a North Carolina federal lawsuit alleges.

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Ex-Student Can't Sue Rutgers Unions Over Faculty Strike

By George Woolston

A New Jersey state judge tossed a proposed class action brought by a former Rutgers student against several teachers unions over the university's 2023 faculty strike, ruling that the state's law aimed at preventing abusive lawsuits seeking to silence free speech applies.

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DoD Memo Illegally Axed Union Rights, Union Affiliates Say

By Katherine Smith

More than 20 union affiliates have filed a lawsuit in Maryland federal court challenging a memorandum directing agencies in the U.S. Department of Defense to cancel hundreds of union contracts throughout the country, claiming that the memo and the following contract terminations were unlawful, arbitrary and capricious.

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Analysis

4 Benefits And Exec Comp Policy Moves From 2026's 1st Half

By Kellie Mejdrich

The U.S. Department of Labor's proposal for a 401(k) fund safe harbor and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's proposal to change the reporting framework for public companies are among the top policy developments from the first half of 2026 that drew benefits and executive compensation attorneys' attention. Here, Law360 looks at four recent developments that attorneys may want to know about.

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Former NCR Execs' $48M Lifetime Benefits Deal Gets 1st OK

By Gina Kim

Approximately 189 former NCR Corp. executives received a Georgia federal court's preliminary approval to their $47.7 million class action settlement resolving allegations the software company broke its commitment to periodically make annuity payments for life post-retirement, bringing the decade-long litigation closer to its end. 

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Employment Litigator Rejoins Ogletree In Calif. From Boutique

By Lynn LaRowe

Ogletree announced Monday the management-side labor and employment law firm has added to its roster of attorneys in Orange County, California, a new shareholder who is returning to the firm following a short time at employment boutique GBG LLP and several years practicing at Constangy.

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Lessons From EEOC Suit Over Coca-Cola Women-Only Event

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's recent lawsuit alleging that Coca-Cola Northeast violated federal law by having a professional development retreat for female employees demonstrates that the EEOC is scrutinizing DEI-related practices with unprecedented intensity, so even the most well-intentioned programs may be challenged, say attorneys at Venable.

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High Court's FCC Fine Ruling Reframes Agency Enforcement

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T sweeps aside uncertainty about what kinds of regulatory enforcement trigger a Seventh Amendment right, say attorneys at Squire Patton.

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How Montgomery Ruling Will Affect Cos. Across Supply Chain

Since the U.S. Supreme Court's May 14 decision in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, the immediate focus has been on freight brokers and negligent carrier-selection claims, but the ripple effects may extend to shippers, logistics providers, insurers, transportation managers and other participants in the supply chain, say attorneys at Quintairos Prieto.

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Blank Rome Sued Over Breach Allegedly Affecting 57K People

By Steven Lerner

An attorney with Blank Rome LLP was tricked into uploading sensitive files to an external Google Drive account, allegedly exposing private information belonging to more than 57,000 individuals, according to a proposed class action accusing the law firm of inadequate cybersecurity safeguards and delayed breach notification.

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Richards Layton Faces Possible Sanctions Over AI Errors

By Rose Krebs

Richards Layton & Finger PA and one of its attorneys have been directed by the Delaware Court of Chancery to show why they should not be sanctioned for a brief submitted with "hallucinated legal propositions" generated by artificial intelligence and for not taking steps to remediate those errors.

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Partnership Docs Sealed In Clifford Chance Clawback Spat

By Ryan Boysen

A federal judge has sealed the partnership agreements that two ex-Clifford Chance LLP practice group heads who jumped to Sidley Austin LLP included in their lawsuit challenging a nearly $6 million clawback demand, after Clifford Chance claimed the tactics put it at a competitive disadvantage. 

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Murdaugh Fights Clerk's Bid To Ax Jury-Tampering Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A former court clerk found to have interfered in Alex Murdaugh's murder trial cannot escape civil claims over the tampering, the disgraced attorney told a South Carolina federal court, stating in an opposition that the clerk cannot argue her way out of the state Supreme Court's finding that she tampered with the jury.

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DOJ Looks To Block ABA's Trump Adviser Subpoenas

By Jack Karp

The American Bar Association cannot demand documents and deposition testimony from a Trump adviser in its lawsuit over the Trump administration's executive orders targeting law firms, since any communication between a presidential adviser and the chief executive is privileged, the government has told a New York federal court.

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Roc Nation Calls Out Alleged AI Citations In Fat Joe Case Brief

By Andrea Keckley

Roc Nation LLC has told a New York federal judge that plaintiff Terrance Dixon's opposition brief filed in a pending Rule 11 sanctions fight should be struck down in part because it includes what the company alleges are fabricated quotations attributed to real judicial decisions.

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Split 5th Circ. Backs Bond Hearings For Immigrant Detainees

By Ganesh Setty

The Fifth Circuit has limited its recent decision permitting the federal government to subject unauthorized immigrants to mandatory detention without bond, finding such individuals are still entitled to an eventual bond hearing under their Fifth Amendment due process rights.

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GOP Bill Would Cement DOJ Fraud Division In Federal Law

By Courtney Bublé

A pair of House Republicans are looking to put a congressional stamp of approval on the new fraud division in the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Judge Says No To Amicus On Attorney Privilege In FTC Case

By Nadia Dreid

A defense bar advocacy group will not get a chance to weigh in on the FTC's antitrust case against Amazon over allegations the e-commerce behemoth used attorney-client privilege to hide evidence from discovery after a Washington federal judge declined to hear from the group.

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Nadine Menendez's Attys Rebuked For Medical Disclosures

By Carla Baranauckas

A New York federal judge rebuked Nadine Menendez's attorneys on Monday for publicly filing a request to delay her surrender date that included "extensive intimate details" of her medical condition, calling the disclosure "astonishing" and ordering the parties to refile a redacted version by Wednesday.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week handled disputes involving arbitration, corporate control, advancement rights, freeze-out mergers and insolvent company wind-downs.

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