'Law, Not Liturgy'?: 9th Circ. Split Over Faith Bias COVID Suit

By Lauren Berg

Eight judges dissented Wednesday from the denial of an en banc Ninth Circuit rehearing of a panel's decision not to revive a Christian hospital worker's religious bias lawsuit alleging she was fired for refusing COVID-19 nasal testing, with one dissenting judge saying "courts are unwelcome guests" when deciding the veracity of an individual's belief.

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9th Circ. Skeptical About Erasing Rail Workers' $7.8M Vax Win

By Vin Gurrieri

The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday appeared likely to uphold a $7.8 million verdict for former San Francisco public rail employees who were ousted after refusing the COVID-19 vaccine on faith-based grounds, with one judge saying the transit system's argument would mean public health guidance effectively cancels out religious rights.  

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Doctor's Coaching Mandate Didn't Violate ADA, 11th Circ. Says

By Grace Elletson

The Eleventh Circuit backed the dismissal Wednesday of a urologist's suit claiming Emory University fired him for refusing to undergo a mental health probe, ruling the professional coaching sessions he was asked to attend did not amount to medical exams.

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Counsel In Ex-Chartwell Atty Firing Suit Told To Ease Off

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge said Wednesday she wanted more information about a sanctions motion allegedly filed with hallucinated AI citations and urged attorneys to "bring the temperature down" in an ex-Chartwell Law Offices LLP attorney's suit claiming she was fired for posting social media statements criticizing military action in Gaza.

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Penn Wants EEOC Subpoena Order Stayed For 3rd Circ. Look

By Grace Elletson

The University of Pennsylvania urged a federal judge to freeze an order requiring it to fork over the contact information of Jewish employees for a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission probe into alleged antisemitism, saying the Third Circuit could find the decision violates the U.S. Constitution.

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8th Circ. Rejects Title IX Bid To Bar Trans Athlete From Playing

By Ganesh Setty

A nonprofit founded for "defending women's sports" cannot use Title IX to block a Minnesota high school athletics bylaw allowing a trans girl to compete in girls softball, the Eighth Circuit ruled Wednesday, finding there were no claims of intentional discrimination.

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Aluminum Co. Settles Trans Worker's Suit Over Health Plan

By Patrick Hoff

A subsidiary of Kaiser Aluminum has agreed to resolve a lawsuit claiming it discriminated against transgender employees by excluding coverage for medical treatments related to gender-affirming care from its health plan, according to a filing in Washington federal court.

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NCAA Changes Prize Money Rule, Puts Eligibility Fix On Hold

By David Steele

The NCAA on Wednesday adopted new rules that allow incoming athletes to keep prize money and still be able to compete in college, and lets prospects enter their sports' pro draft without costing them their eligibility.

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Ocean Spray Settles OT Suit After Most Claims Fall Away

By MJ Koo

A proposed wage lawsuit settlement against juice manufacturer Ocean Spray would compensate only a small portion of the workers in the case after their lawyers determined the company correctly calculated overtime and the claims of the other workers likely wouldn't succeed, according to a filing in Massachusetts federal court.

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Target Says Workers' Walking Time Not Compensable

By Benjamin Morse

Target urged a Washington federal judge to dismiss a proposed class action alleging workers were not paid for time spent walking inside a distribution center before and after their shifts, arguing the activity is part of a normal commute and not compensable work under state law.

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Personal Injury Firm, Paralegals Settle Overtime Suit

By Benjamin Morse

A Houston personal injury firm reached a deal to end a proposed collective action lodged by several paralegals alleging it failed to pay overtime and delayed back pay, according to a notice filed Wednesday in Texas federal court. 

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Collective Expanded In OT Suit Against Land Management Co.

By Irene Spezzamonte

New affidavits workers provided in their overtime suit against a land management company support their bid to expand their collective on a nationwide basis, a Maryland federal judge ruled Wednesday, rejecting the company's argument that the request was a "second bite at the apple."

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Denver Seeks To End Strip Clubs' Wage Theft Suit

By MJ Koo

Strip club operators that repeatedly failed to halt Denver's $14 million wage theft investigation in state court cannot relitigate those same challenges in federal court, the city told a Colorado federal court Wednesday.

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Oilfield Co. Required Worker LLCs, Denied OT, Suit Says

By Benjamin Morse

An oilfield services company misclassified workers as independent contractors and required them to create their own limited liability companies to continue working there, according to a proposed collective and class action filed in Colorado federal court.

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Avis Misclassified Managers, Withheld OT, Suit Claims

By Taylor Bowie

Avis Car Rental misclassified salaried managers as exempt to avoid paying the proper overtime rate, even though their duties consisted of routine tasks typical for unionized staff who qualify for extra pay, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in Virginia federal court Tuesday.

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Firings Over Vax Refusals Arbitrable, Police Union Tells Court

By Julie Manganis

The union representing Massachusetts state police troopers told an intermediate appellate court Wednesday that disagreement over the meaning of "just cause" triggers a right to arbitrate disciplinary actions, including the firings of 13 officers over their refusal to receive COVID-19 vaccinations.

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Pa. Justices Hint Union Row Hinges On Arbitrator's Power

By Matthew Santoni

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday considered if an arbitrator had the authority to waive deadlines in a dispute involving union-represented Allegheny County Jail employees, with one justice suggesting that deadlines are a procedural matter within her control, rather than a contract provision that she couldn't ignore.

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GM Not Privy To Ex-Chrysler Exec's Spousal Talks, Panel Told

By Melanie Dorsey

A former Fiat Chrysler labor executive convicted for his role in a union bribery scheme could risk incriminating himself if he gives General Motors privileged information, including communications with his wife, as part of the latter automaker's civil lawsuit over alleged corruption, his attorney argued before a Michigan appeals court Wednesday.

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Union Slams Hegseth Bid To Scrap DOD Union Contracts

By Elaine Briseño

The American Federation of Government Employees issued a statement on Wednesday expressing outrage and saying that U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had issued a memo directing DOD agencies to terminate all collective bargaining agreements with the union.

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Pest Control Co. Ends Noncompetes After FTC Pressure

By Matthew Perlman

Pest control company Rollins Inc. agreed with the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to stop enforcing noncompete agreements that could prevent more than 18,000 workers from taking a job at a competitor.

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Antitrust Suit Targets CoStar Noncompetes, Cross-Post Limits

By Nate Beck

CoStar Group faces a lawsuit in Virginia federal court alleging that the real estate information service has for years sought to prevent cross-listings by customers and shut out would-be competitors through acquisitions and noncompete deals with large brokerages, in what plaintiffs' counsel claims is the first such antitrust class action against the company. 

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Judge Doubts C4, Bloom Ex-Execs Should Lose New Jobs

By José Luis Martínez

A Texas federal judge was skeptical Wednesday of approving injunctive relief that would bar executives from working at a relaxation beverage company months after leaving the maker of C4 and Bloom energy drinks.

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Judge Limits Evidence In Revived Deloitte Trade Secret Case

By Ivan Moreno

A West Virginia federal judge has narrowed the evidence prosecutors can present at trial in a revived trade secret case against two former Deloitte employees, curtailing use of an internal investigative report from the company they joined and restricting how "trade secrets" may be used to describe allegedly confidential materials.

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Biopharma Co. Says Ex-Worker Used Files To Build AI Rival

By Mark Payne

A biopharmaceutical consulting firm's ex-contractor illegally downloaded thousands of proprietary internal files and emails that he then used to launch a rival company powered by artificial intelligence, the firm claimed in a lawsuit, alleging that the former contractor violated federal trade secrets law.

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Ex-Defense Contractor Execs Call Arbitration Pact 'One-Sided'

By Rachel Konieczny

Two former executives for a defense contractor asked a Colorado federal judge Wednesday for an early win in their lawsuit alleging the contractor fired them for reporting a $1.9 million fraud scheme on a classified government contract.

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The 2026 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey: Where Do You Stand?

How is your work-life balance? Are you content with your compensation and opportunities for advancement at work? Take the 2026 Law360 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey and share your thoughts.

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What To Know About NY's Employment Credit Check Ban

An amendment to the New York state Fair Credit Reporting Act prohibiting applicants' or employees' consumer credit history from being used in employment-related decisions statewide will take effect in a few days, so employers should update policies, train teams and audit positions for narrow exemptions, say attorneys at Reed Smith.

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5 Key Questions Attys Should Ask About Statistical Analyses

Even attorneys without a background in statistics can effectively vet the general concepts of a statistical analysis by asking targeted questions and can thereby reinforce the credibility and relevance of expert testimony — or expose its weaknesses, say Katrina Schydlower and Christopher Cunio at Hunton and Kevin Cahill at FTI Consulting.

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Sotomayor Apologizes For 'Hurtful' Comments About Kavanaugh

By Katie Buehler

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor publicly apologized Wednesday for comments she made at a University of Kansas appearance earlier this month criticizing Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

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Justice Jackson Slams Court's 'Oblivious' Emergency Orders

By Lauren Berg

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson this week slammed her conservative colleagues' use of the court's emergency docket, which has repeatedly benefited the Trump administration, saying that such "scratch-paper" orders don't acknowledge the harms that can follow such decisions, making the orders "seem oblivious and thus ring hollow."

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Consumer Cases Drive Class Action Spike, Report Says

By Y. Peter Kang

Federal class action filings spiked in 2025 after nearly a decade of relative stability, fueled by a surge in consumer protection lawsuits tied to data breaches, digital commerce and online accessibility claims, according to a new report from Lex Machina.

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Hogan, Cadwalader Partners Vote To Forge Ahead With Merger

By Marialuisa Taddia

Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader said Wednesday that their partners have voted in favor of their merger ahead of the scheduled launch of the combined law firm on July 1.

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Winston & Strawn Must Face $1.7B GloriFi Malpractice Suit

By Vince Sullivan

A Chapter 7 malpractice suit brought by the trustee of fintech company GloriFi asserting $1.7 billion in damages from a failed initial public offering mostly survived a motion to dismiss late Tuesday, with a Texas bankruptcy judge saying the trustee sufficiently pled breach claims against law firm Winston & Strawn.

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Trump's 8th Circ. Pick Pressed On Leonard Leo Ties

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's nominee for the Eighth Circuit, who represented Trump in the two cases brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, came under scrutiny Wednesday for his affiliation with groups linked to longtime Federalist Society executive and Republican fundraiser Leonard Leo.

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Jones Day DQ'd From Vanderbilt Case Over Pre-Ch. 11 Work

By Vince Sullivan

A New York bankruptcy judge disqualified law firm Jones Day from representing talc producer Vanderbilt Minerals in its Chapter 11 case Wednesday, saying the firm's prior work for the larger Vanderbilt corporate family raises questions about its disinterestedness.

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John Eastman Disbarred Over Bid To Overturn 2020 Election

By Rae Ann Varona

California's highest court on Wednesday ordered the disbarment of California attorney John Charles Eastman, who a state bar court found had helped plan and promote President Donald Trump's strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

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ICE Arrest Memo Switch Looks 'Specious,' Judge Says

By Pete Brush

A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday revived an effort by civil rights groups to block immigration courthouse arrests, citing what he called an apparently deceptive Trump administration move to disclaim its earlier litigation position.

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Historical Groups Fight To Save White House Records

By Jared Foretek

Historians are asking a D.C. federal judge for an injunction that would force the Trump White House to preserve official records after administration attorneys declared the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional.

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Trump Defends DOJ Investigation Of 'Incompetent' Fed Chair

By Jon Hill

President Donald Trump expressed support Wednesday for the U.S. Department of Justice continuing to investigate Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over the Fed's headquarters renovation, saying the government must "find out what happened" with the project's $2.5 billion price tag.

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DOJ Atty Slapped With $250 Sanction For Missed Deadlines

By Tom Lotshaw

A California federal judge hit a U.S. Department of Justice attorney with a $250 sanction for repeatedly missing deadlines in a noncitizen's habeas corpus case, rejecting his assertions that his need to juggle tasks under a 300-plus caseload should excuse him.

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Former Judge To Head New NJ Attorney Readmission Board

By Jake Maher

The New Jersey Supreme Court announced this week the lineup of a new committee that will consider disbarred attorneys' applications for readmission, with a former state court judge of over 20 years at the head of the board.

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