The Second Circuit declined Tuesday to revive an Avangrid Management Co. worker's suit claiming the utility business wouldn't promote her because of her age, ruling she lacked evidence that hiring managers knew how old she was when deciding what candidate was the best fit.
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2nd Circ. Backs Avangrid's Defeat Of Worker's Age Bias Suit

By Grace Elletson

The Second Circuit declined Tuesday to revive an Avangrid Management Co. worker's suit claiming the utility business wouldn't promote her because of her age, ruling she lacked evidence that hiring managers knew how old she was when deciding what candidate was the best fit.

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NLRB Judge Hits Amazon With Bargaining Order At SF Facility

By Braden Campbell

A National Labor Relations Board judge ordered Amazon to bargain with the Teamsters at a San Francisco delivery center in a decision that may give the board's Republican majority a chance to rethink the agency's reworked bargaining order standard.

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9th Circ. Allows Airport Cleaning Co. To Arbitrate Wage Claims

By Lauren Berg

A company that offers janitorial services to airports can compel arbitration in a former employee's wage and hour proposed class action, the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday, reversing a California district court's determination that the arbitration agreement was unconscionable.

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FCC's Carr Calls Policy Against DEI 'Right Thing To Do'

By Christopher Cole

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr has told Congress that tanking diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the telecom industry is not only justified but also a policy where Americans find more "common ground" than many lawmakers realize.

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11th Circ. Won't Reopen White Ex-Postmaster's Race Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

The Eleventh Circuit upheld the U.S. Postal Service's win over a white former Georgia postmaster's lawsuit alleging she was suspended for complaining that a Black mail carrier had threatened her, finding the bulk of her claims were filed too late.

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DISCRIMINATION

Mich. Appeals Court Backs Detroit In Ex-Officer's Bias Suit

By Melanie Dorsey

A former Detroit police officer failed to get his bias, retaliation and hostile work environment suit revived, as a Michigan appeals court found he had not shown that his firing was tied to his Nigerian national origin, race or sex. 

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6th Circ. Won't Disrupt Professor's Pregnancy Bias Verdict

By Patrick Hoff

The Sixth Circuit refused Tuesday to upend a $205,000 verdict in favor of a former Michigan Technological University accounting professor who said she was given a lower raise because she took maternity leave, saying a reasonable jury could conclude the dean improperly considered her pregnancy.

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WAGE & HOUR

Worker Accuses Outsourcing Co. Of Pay Errors

By MJ Koo

A former customer support worker has sued a business process outsourcing company in Massachusetts federal court, alleging the company shortchanged workers on overtime and paid them late because of its semimonthly pay system.

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Colo. Judge Says Mine Operator's FLSA Suit Can Proceed

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado federal judge declined to toss a proposed collective action that alleged a Colorado coal mining company failed to pay its hourly employees for overtime worked, ruling Tuesday that a mine operator alleged sufficient facts for the lawsuit to survive.

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LABOR

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US Bars Jordan Cos.' Imports Over Forced Labor Concerns

By Jack McLoone

U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday announced it would bar shipments of any garments produced by a pair of Jordanian companies due to indications that they are being produced with forced labor.

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BENEFITS

Class Certified In Konica Minolta Workers' Severance Dispute

By George Woolston

A New Jersey federal judge Tuesday agreed to certify a class of workers alleging Konica Minolta used an office relocation as a guise to conduct a mass layoff without having to pay severance.

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Pension Fund Trustees Partially Settle $1.8M Transit Co. Suit

By Benjamin Morse

Trustees of a Teamsters-affiliated pension fund have reached a partial settlement in a lawsuit over a more than $1.8 million reallocation liability assessment against a defunct transit company, asking a New York federal court to pause claims against the settling defendants while they secure financing and make payment.

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NY-Presbyterian Tees Bid To Ax Union Funds' Antitrust Row

By Emily Brill

Three union benefit funds lack standing in their lawsuit accusing New York-Presbyterian Hospital of using anticompetitive tactics when negotiating with health insurance companies, the hospital told a New York federal judge, saying the negotiations are between it and the insurers.

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WHISTLEBLOWER

BioNTech Accused Of Firing Nurse Over Drug Trial Concerns

By Abigail Harrison

A former senior clinical trial manager at BioNTech US Inc. told a North Carolina federal court Monday that she was wrongfully fired after complaining to higher-ups about an "epidemic of safety issues and protocol deviations" in clinical trials.

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BANKRUPTCY

Insurer Waited Too Long To Void Policies Over Alleged Fraud

By Hope Patti

An insurer's bid to revoke policies issued to a defunct employee leasing agency due to misrepresentations in its insurance applications is time-barred under New York law, a federal court ruled, finding that the insurer discovered the alleged fraud more than two years before filing suit.

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PEOPLE

Seyfarth Adds Labor Pro In Dallas From Pilots Union

By Madison Arnold

Seyfarth Shaw LLP has bolstered its labor and employment capabilities with a new partner in its Dallas office who served as labor relations counsel for the Air Line Pilots Association.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Defending Against Remote Work Risks During The World Cup

With World Cup matches underway, remote work policies and security measures can help employers manage the risks of employees working from sports arenas and other nontraditional locations, including hours-worked compliance, network security and data protection, says Lisa Burton at Ogletree.

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Drawing A Line Between Settlement Pressure And Extortion

U.S. v. Luo, pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, may force courts to address anew when settlement negotiations become criminal extortion, particularly in the age of easily fabricated digital evidence, says attorney Denis Kiely.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

The 2026 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey

Lawyers are generally happy being lawyers, but nonequity partners and associates told Law360 Pulse that several aspects of their job leave them feeling dissatisfied. Explore our analysis of these and other findings in the 2026 Law360 Lawyer Satisfaction survey.

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Bonus Spotlight

Axinn Giving $25K Bonuses As Glenn Agre Matches Milbank

By Tracey Read

Glenn Agre Bergman & Fuentes LLP will match the Milbank LLP base pay scale for associates, while Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP — which was already paying above-market salaries — will hand out special summer bonuses of up to $25,000, the boutiques told Law360 Pulse Tuesday.

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LA Superior Court Gains Prominence With 'Nuclear' Verdicts

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Los Angeles County Superior Court was among the country's top sites for awarding big civil damages in recent years, according to a Lex Machina report.

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NC Becomes First State To Ban Outside Funding Of Civil Suits

By Hayley Fowler

North Carolina has become the first state in the country to ban outside investors from funding civil litigation, after Democratic Gov. Josh Stein signed into law a bill that outlaws third parties from footing the bill for civil suits in exchange for a cut of the payout at the finish line.

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Calif. Judge Restores Immigration Courthouse Arrest Limits

By Hailey Konnath

A California federal judge Tuesday vacated the Trump administration's policies on civil arrests at immigration courthouses, restoring limits on those arrests and finding that the government didn't adequately explain its policy shift.

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NY Rule Rewrite Drops 30-Day Pause For Atty Soliciting

By Emily Sawicki

New York's Appellate Division has adopted new rules of professional conduct on attorney advertising and solicitation, deleting a ban on soliciting clients less than 30 days after an incident.

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Judicial Noms Still Say Biden Won In 2020 — Technically

By Courtney Bublé

A group of judicial nominees, who earlier this month were the first of the Trump administration's nominees to say President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, reiterated in follow-up statements that Biden won the election "as a matter of law" — doubling down on what critics say is an equivocation on the election's outcome.

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Judge Who Denied Goldstein Retrial Says It Wasn't Close Case

By Rachel Rippetoe

A Maryland federal judge has elaborated on her decision to deny SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein's bid for an acquittal or new trial, saying that the evidence presented at trial either supersedes or invalidates his claims of issues with jury instructions and insufficient or excluded evidence.

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Texas Judge Tosses Buzbee Firm's Jay-Z Conspiracy Suits

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas state court has handed a win to Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and a Mississippi law firm, which sought dismissal of claims that they conspired with Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter to retaliate against Houston personal injury firm The Buzbee Law Firm and two of its former clients.

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Ex-AT&T Counsel Charged Over Disclosing Privileged Info

By Sue Reisinger

A former in-house attorney for AT&T, accused of leaking privileged information to opposing counsel while seeking a share of financial gains from a lawsuit filed 18 years ago against the company, has been charged with violating attorney professional conduct rules.

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Judge Allows Brazil To Join Trump Suit Against Justice

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge on Tuesday allowed Brazil to intervene in a suit by President Donald Trump's media company and online video-sharing platform Rumble Inc. against a Brazilian Supreme Federal Court justice's gag orders but deferred ruling on Brazil's motion to dismiss the suit.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Axinn Veltrop

Beeson Tayer

Boies Schiller

Bradley Arant

Bruckner Burch

Buzbee Law Firm

Coblentz Patch

DLA Piper

DiCello Levitt

Dordick Law

FBT Gibbons

Faegre Drinker

Fair Work PC

Fairmark Partners LLP

Farella Braun

Fisher & Phillips

Foley Hoag

Garwin Gerstein

Gibson Dunn

Glenn Agre

Green Savits

Greenberg Gross

Hach Rose Schirripa

Josephson Dunlap

Kasowitz LLP

Keller Rohrback

Kirkland & Ellis

Labaton Keller

Lavi & Ebrahimian

Lieff Cabraser

Littler Mendelson

MJ Legal PA

Methfessel & Werbel

Milbank LLP

Munger Tolles

Ogletree Deakins

Parris Law Firm

Parry Law PLLC

Payne & Fears

Plunkett Cooney

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

Runyan Law Group

Savage Turner

Seyfarth Shaw

Sterling Employment Law

Stranch Jennings

Strianese Huckert

Susman Godfrey

Willinger Willinger

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AT&T Inc.

Ahern Rentals Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American Express Co.

American Tort Reform Association

Avangrid Inc.

Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V.

Chicago Cubs Baseball Club LLC

Claremont McKenna College

Fortress Investment Group LLC

Gawker Media LLC

Google LLC

Helix TCS Inc.

Johnson & Johnson

Konica Minolta Holdings

Lex Machina Inc.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LinkedIn Corp.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Michigan Technological University

Milwaukee Bucks

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

National Collegiate Athletic Association

New York City Bar Association

New York County Lawyers' Association

New York State Bar Association

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

Nike Inc.

North Carolina Justice Center

Pennzoil

RELX PLC

ROC Nation LLC

Starbucks Corp.

Teleperformance SA

The District of Columbia Bar

The New York Times Co.

Twitter Inc.

United Food & Commercial Workers International Union

University of Southern California

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Executive Office for Immigration Review

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Food and Drug Administration

Internal Revenue Service

Los Angeles Superior Court

National Labor Relations Board

New York State Unified Court System

North Carolina General Assembly

Texas Judicial Branch

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Georgia

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Government Accountability Office

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Postal Service

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado