9th Circ. Says Initial Arbitration No Obstacle To EFAA

By Grace Elletson

A split Ninth Circuit panel ruled Wednesday that a fired biopharmaceutical executive could quit arbitration and file a suit claiming her boss subjected her to gender-based harassment, finding the pivot was fair game under a law that shields sex misconduct disputes from out-of-court resolutions.

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4th Circ. Ends Immigration Judges' Free Speech Suit

By Britain Eakin

The Fourth Circuit on Wednesday affirmed that a district court lacked authority to hear a suit from an immigration judges' union challenging a policy barring judges from speaking publicly about immigration without prior approval.

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Deloitte Can't Shake Leave Bias Suit From Ex-Manager

By MJ Koo

A California federal court has refused to dismiss a proposed class action accusing Deloitte Consulting LLP of penalizing employees through a performance evaluation system that shortchanges the compensation of workers who take parental or pregnancy leave.

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Scribd To Pay $3M To End Wash. Wage Scale Class Action

By Ben Adlin

Document hosting service Scribd Inc. will pay $3 million to resolve a class action accusing the tech company of violating Washington state law by failing to include pay information on job postings, according to a settlement agreement given preliminary approval by a King County Superior Court judge.

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Bloomberg Campaign, Workers Defend $6M Settlement Notice

By Benjamin Morse

Attorneys for workers and Mike Bloomberg's 2020 presidential campaign urged a New York federal judge to let notice of a proposed $6 million overtime settlement move forward, saying another attorney's challenge rests on "significant factual inaccuracies."

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Asurion Fired Manager Over Bias Report, Anxiety, Suit Says

By Kia Fatahi

A technology insurance company fired a Black manager whom it had recognized as "one of the strongest salespeople in the country" after she took medical leave to deal with anxiety exacerbated by alleged retaliation she received for raising concerns about a manager's sexually and racially offensive behavior, according to a complaint filed in Tennessee federal court Wednesday.

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Atty, Ex-Mentor Settle After Harassment, Bias Suit Dismissed

By Melanie Dorsey

An attorney whose sexual harassment and employment discrimination suit against her former mentor was thrown out last month for repeated discovery violations has reached a settlement resolving the remaining claims and counterclaims in the case.

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Delivery Driver Loses Class Cert. Bid In Misclassification Suit

By MJ Koo

A delivery driver who accused a logistics company of misclassifying him and thousands of other California workers as independent contractors cannot get his proposed class certified, a federal court found, finding the variation in the drivers' operations prevents them from resolving their claims on a classwide basis.

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Rutgers RAs Sue University Over Unpaid Minimum, OT Wages

By MJ Koo

A former Rutgers University resident assistant sued the school in New Jersey federal court Wednesday, alleging the university treats dormitory supervisors as free labor, compensating them primarily with housing and meal benefits while failing to pay minimum wages or overtime for hours worked.

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Prison Phone Co. Says Techs Aren't Owed Public Works Pay

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A prison phone service provider told a New York federal judge that three field service technicians who installed and maintained telecommunications systems in hospitals and prisons did not agree to a "public works" contract and aren't guaranteed higher pay under state labor laws.

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Burlington Accused Of Requiring Work During Unpaid Breaks

By Carla Baranauckas

Three Burlington Coat Factory current and former employees hit the off-price retailer with proposed nationwide collective and class claims alleging workers were routinely required to perform unpaid work on purported meal breaks.

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Spirit Flight Attendants Object To Google Data Sale

By Rick Archer

The union representing Spirit Aviation's flight attendants has asked a New York bankruptcy judge to reject the bankrupt airline's request to sell its internal data to Google for artificial intelligence training unless the privacy of its members is protected.

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NLRB Accused Of Botching Analysis In Unlawful Firing Case

By Emily Brill

A Detroit water infrastructure company has asked the National Labor Relations Board to reconsider its July decision that the company unlawfully fired a striker, saying the board didn't explain why a violation was still found after it discarded certain evidence of anti-union animus that an agency judge had relied on.

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Feds Urge Wash. Court To Back Axing Dam Workers' CBA

By Katherine Smith

The Trump administration urged a Washington federal court to deny a labor union's bid to block the government from terminating a collective bargaining agreement covering hydropower dam workers, arguing that appellate courts have rejected similar injunction requests from other unions.

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OpenAI Opposes Early Discovery In Apple Trade Secret Suit

By Ivan Moreno

OpenAI and two of its employees have asked a California federal court to reject Apple's bid for expedited discovery in its trade secret lawsuit accusing OpenAI of using former Apple employees to obtain confidential information, arguing that discovery will begin soon enough.

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Medtronic, Former Exec Settle Whistleblower Retaliation Suit

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado state judge tossed a whistleblower lawsuit against Medtronic Inc., granting a dismissal bid from the company and a former executive after they reached an undisclosed settlement.

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11th Circ. Won't Revive Ex-Deputy's Suit Over Affair Fallout

By Kelcey Caulder

A former Georgia deputy and his wife cannot revive their lawsuit accusing county officials of violating their constitutional rights after it was revealed that the deputy was having an extramarital affair with an official's wife while on duty, the Eleventh Circuit said Wednesday.

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Ex-Sheriff's Workers Urge Court Not To Toss Retaliation Suit

By Rachel Konieczny

Former employees of a Colorado county's sheriff's office urged a federal judge not to toss their lawsuit claiming the county fired and criminally prosecuted them for raising concerns about misconduct by the sheriff and former undersheriff, saying they faced "a repeated pattern of retaliation" for exercising their First Amendment rights.

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Rethinking Corporate Travel Rules After Device Search Cases

A recent New York federal court decision approving a warrantless seizure and search of company laptops and a pending Georgia federal court criminal case over a phone's data deletion underscore how little protection corporate personnel have at the border, necessitating a review of corporate travel programs, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.

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The Divergent Approaches In US, EU Forced Labor Standards

Forced labor guidance documents recently issued by the U.S. and the European Union have meaningful differences, with the U.S. taking a documentary approach to compliance and the EU emphasizing human rights risks as a governance challenge, but one model will likely exert greater influence, say attorneys at Steptoe.

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Law School's Missed Lessons: Surviving A Long Trial

Most of law school trial advocacy is geared toward the sprint of trying a short case, but beyond managing a cross-examination or closing argument, effectively handling the marathon of a lengthy trial requires the ability to maintain composure, organization and credibility with the jury, says Mihir Elchuri at Hirschler.

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How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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Trump Taps DOJ Official, ND Solicitor General For Judgeships

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced Thursday he's tapping Jesus Osete, a top U.S. Department of Justice official, to serve on the Western District of Missouri and Philip Axt, solicitor general of North Dakota, for the District of North Dakota.

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McGuireWoods Hires Womble Bond Commercial Attys In DC

By Jack Rodgers

McGuireWoods LLP has hired two attorneys from Womble Bond Dickinson who focus their practice on postacquisition disputes, construction litigation and government contract matters, the firm announced Thursday.

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Eastman Among 16 Calif. Attys Disbarred In Q2 2026

By Emily Sawicki

The State Bar of California removed the licenses of 16 attorneys between April and June of this year over a broad spectrum of ethical breaches ranging from the high-profile case of John Eastman attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, to a lawyer found to be in possession of child sex abuse images.

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Mich. Panel Rejects $2.5M Malpractice Suit Over Bank Debt

By Melanie Dorsey

An attorney failed to show a law firm and two lawyers derailed his efforts to settle a PNC Bank debt and caused him to ultimately pay more than $2.5 million, a Michigan appellate court has ruled, upholding the dismissal of his malpractice suit. 

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Man Accused Of Threatening Judge In Mass Shooting Case

By Jack Karp

A Texas man is accused of threatening the state judge and district attorney in a Georgia school shooting case, as well as a federal judge in Alabama, according to an announcement from federal prosecutors.

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CREXi Drops 9th Circ. Challenge To Quinn Emanuel DQ

By Isaac Monterose

Property listing company Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc. has moved to dismiss its own Ninth Circuit mandamus petition, which challenged a lower court's disqualification of CREXi's counsel, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, from a legal battle against rival CoStar.

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Harris Beach Adds Environmental Atty From Nixon Peabody

By Isaac Monterose

Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC has hired former Nixon Peabody LLP attorney Aaron B. Goldman as a senior counsel on its commercial real estate and environmental teams in New York.

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