Judge Temporarily Blocks TPS Holder Work Permit Cutoff

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a retroactive cap on work authorization for temporary protected status recipients and asylum-seekers that would have forced thousands of immigrant workers out of their jobs starting on Wednesday.

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DC Circ. Says NLRB 'Successor Bar' Conflicts With Labor Law

By Braden Campbell

A split D.C. Circuit panel said Tuesday that the National Labor Relations Board's practice of insulating unions from removal after businesses change hands defies federal labor law, applying a landmark 2024 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that scaled back courts' deference to federal agencies.

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7th Circ. Probes Offset Restitution In Hytera-Motorola Dispute

By Celeste Bott

Seventh Circuit judges appeared amenable Tuesday to Motorola's argument that an Illinois federal judge wrongly refused to order Hytera to pay restitution for stealing trade secrets and improperly treated Hytera's payments in parallel civil litigation as offsets in the criminal case, effectively nullifying Motorola's punitive damages award.

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EEOC Takes Key Step Toward Scrapping Workforce Data Reports

By Anne Cullen

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted Tuesday to publish a proposal to abandon decades-old requirements that employers report their workplace demographics, moving a step closer to rescinding the disclosure mandates. 

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Submarine Maker Sinks Disability Bias Suit Over Remote Work

By Patrick Hoff

General Dynamics' submarine subsidiary Electric Boat Corp. defeated a former employee's lawsuit alleging the company refused to let him work from home because of serious health conditions, with a Connecticut federal judge ruling Tuesday he hadn't shown he was able to work when he was let go.

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Sen. Warner Unveils 4-Part AI Guardrail Package

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., proposed legislation Tuesday that would create guardrails on artificial intelligence and impose disclosure requirements on data centers' demands on power and water infrastructure and effects on the environment.

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Lockheed Can't Use EEOC Charge To Narrow Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Lockheed Martin can't trim a lawsuit alleging it refused to give a worker the same opportunities offered to other employees because he is African and Muslim, a Texas federal judge ruled, concluding he wasn't required to use specific language in a pre-suit bias charge to preserve certain claims.

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Reed Smith Loses Bid To Pause Ex-Worker's Gender Bias Suit

By Carla Baranauckas

A New Jersey judge on Tuesday rejected Reed Smith LLP's motion to pause discovery in a gender discrimination lawsuit brought by a former employee, finding that the firm had not proved irreparable harm if the case advanced while an interlocutory appeal on the scope of damages proceeds.

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Plumbing Co. Illegally Fired Pregnant Worker, EEOC Alleges

By Grace Elletson

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued a Georgia plumbing company, claiming it unlawfully fired an employee for taking too much time off work for pregnancy-related symptoms and medical appointments.

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Building Products Co. Can't Shake Wage, Break Suit

By Benjamin Morse

A Washington federal judge on Tuesday said a building products company cannot escape a proposed class action claiming it denied workers wages and breaks, finding that the former employee behind the suit plausibly alleged unpaid work and that federal compensability rules do not apply to her state law wage claims.

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Nike Ad Crew Member Sues Over Wages, Missed Breaks

By MJ Koo

A production assistant who worked on a Nike Inc. commercial has sued the sportswear giant, its advertising agency and a production company, alleging the companies failed to pay overtime wages, denied meal and rest breaks and delayed wage payments to film crew members, according to a complaint filed in California federal court.

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Exec Threatened Immigrant Worker Over OT Claim, Suit Says

By MJ Koo

A financial services firm's executive sent a series of late-night messages threatening to report an Albanian immigrant worker for immigration fraud just three days after the worker's attorney sent a demand letter asserting unpaid overtime claims, a New York federal lawsuit alleged.

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Medical Pot Dispensary Can't Halt NLRB Union Firing Case

By Katherine Smith

A Utah federal judge has refused to block a National Labor Relations Board case accusing a medical marijuana dispensary of firing four union supporters, ruling that the dispensary's injunction request was barred since the case stemmed from a labor dispute.

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Bronx Public Defenders Set Strike Deadline

By Emily Sawicki

More than 300 unionized workers at legal aid organization The Bronx Defenders are set to walk out on July 27 if they cannot agree on a contract with the legal nonprofit's management, according to a Tuesday announcement.

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Atlanta 'Plane Train' Workers Score 18% Raise In 1st CBA

By Katherine Smith

A group of employees who operate and maintain the underground people mover system at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport have ratified their first collective bargaining agreement less than a year after voting to join an International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers affiliate, the union has announced.

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Janitorial Cos. Beat Supplemental Pension Claims, For Now

By Benjamin Morse

A D.C. federal judge trimmed claims that three airport janitorial contractors owe supplemental pension contributions, finding a pension fund failed to plausibly allege that the companies assumed a predecessor's contribution obligations or owed rehabilitation plan contributions under federal law.

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Thermo Fisher Says TRO Needed To Protect $8.9B Deal

By Jarek Rutz

A Delaware Chancery Court judge said Tuesday he is still weighing whether to temporarily block a former Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. executive from joining Fortrea Holdings Inc., signaling that the dispute turns on difficult questions about the scope of restrictive covenants while cautioning the parties not to assume how he will rule.

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Boehringer Alleges United Therapeutics Poached Staff, Secrets

By Jarek Rutz

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. is suing United Therapeutics Corp. in Delaware Chancery Court, alleging it recruited more than 20 members of Boehringer's specialized interstitial lung disease sales team to obtain confidential business information before launching a competing drug.

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Atty Immunity Should Cut Firm From Fee Suit, Judge Says

By Elliot Weld

A Texas federal judge has recommended letting California law firm Bartko Pavia out of a lawsuit brought by litigation boutique Williams Simons & Landis PC over alleged unpaid legal fees, saying attorney immunity shields the California firm.

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Pasco Bank Says It Fired Ex-CEO To Preserve Itself

By Sydney Price

The First National Bank of Pasco pushed back on a suit from its former CEO alleging he was wrongfully terminated for filing a whistleblower report with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, arguing that the bank was within its discretion to fire him for any reason, including to protect the bank from his management practices.

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Calif. Privacy Agency Targets Gig Economy In Inaugural Audit

By Allison Grande

The California Privacy Protection Agency on Tuesday kicked off its long anticipated series of sectoral privacy audits, announcing that its first focus would be on how transportation, delivery and other gig economy platforms are handling consumers' and workers' personal information. 

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7th Circ. Told To Keep Judge's MAGA Firing Fight In Fed. Court

By Celeste Bott

A retired judge looking to hold the Illinois Supreme Court liable for canceling his temporary reinstatement over a pro-MAGA opinion column told the Seventh Circuit Monday that his case belongs in federal court, saying he has no unbiased state court forum because his claims "would inevitably reach defendants themselves."

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Texas Appeals Court Revives Ex-CEO's Claims Against REIT

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday revived claims brought by the former CEO of Houston-based Whitestone REIT accusing his ex-employer of ousting him without cause, saying that the REIT failed to show it should win as a matter of law.

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Fisher Phillips Combines With Dallas Litigation Boutique

By Lynn LaRowe

International labor and employment law firm Fisher Phillips has added a four-attorney team through a combination with Dallas litigation boutique Stewart Law Group PLLC.

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Movers & Shakers

Clark Hill Adds Employment Atty From Seyfarth In Atlanta

By Emily Johnson

Clark Hill PLC has added a Seyfarth Shaw LLP partner in Atlanta, strengthening its labor and employment group.

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Yellow Corp. WARN Act Appeal Refines Layoff Guidance

A Delaware federal court's recent upholding of a bankruptcy court's disallowance of unions' federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act claims against Yellow underscores that fact-specific notices and thoughtful timing are essential for distressed companies implementing layoffs, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

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High Court Rulings Could Alter Agency Strategy For Cos.

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decisions in Trump v. Slaughter and Trump v. Cook mark major turning points in the law of independent agencies and in how regulated companies should think about federal enforcement, rulemaking and agency-facing strategy, say attorneys at Holtzman Vogel.

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Trade Secret Practice Tips From The 1st Half Of 2026

Intellectual property attorneys should consider what several significant developments in 2026 thus far mean for how they protect, litigate and value trade secrets, focusing on new state noncompete bans, cases scrutinizing how plaintiffs identify trade secrets and federal rulings on damages doctrines, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.

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Holland & Knight Hit With $1.2B Malpractice Suit

By Madison Arnold

A real estate firm is accusing Holland & Knight LLP and three attorneys of malpractice in a new complaint filed in Florida state court and is seeking up to $1.2 billion in damages after more than 30 states opened investigations into the company's practices.

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Co. Turned Away Simpson Thacher's Deal Meeting, Jury Told

By Cara Salvatore

A retired Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner who handled the fundraising round alleged to have destroyed Patriot National Inc. testified in a Florida state malpractice trial Wednesday that the insurance services company waved off his attempt to present details to the board.

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Pillsbury Data Breach Suit Voluntarily Dismissed

By Matt Perez

A proposed class action against Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP over a data breach last year has been voluntarily dismissed by the named plaintiffs, following a granted motion to stay in April to discuss mediation.

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DLA Piper Says Deception, Not Bias, Cost Palestinian Atty Job

By Grace Elletson

DLA Piper urged an Illinois federal judge to toss a Palestinian attorney's suit claiming the firm revoked a job offer out of discrimination, arguing it rescinded the offer because she concealed allegations that she assaulted someone at a protest.

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DC Bar Leaders Say DOJ Ethics Suit Encourages Misconduct

By Emily Sawicki

Washington, D.C., attorney regulators continue to garner support in their effort to toss a Justice Department lawsuit over alleged "weaponizing" of executive branch lawyer discipline, with D.C. bar organizations, scores of legal scholars and more than 500 former DOJ attorneys backing the disciplinary authorities.

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Mich. Gets Judge With Blue Slips In 1st For Trump Admin

By Courtney Bublé

The U.S. Senate voted 62-36 on Wednesday to confirm Michael Martin, a longtime federal prosecutor, to the Eastern District of Michigan and Benjamin Flowers, former solicitor general of Ohio, to the Sixth Circuit.

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DOL IG Says Info-Sharing Pacts Lacked Safeguards

By Irene Spezzamonte

U.S. Department of Labor Inspector General Anthony P. D'Esposito testified Wednesday before a U.S. House subcommittee that during the Biden administration, the department shared confidential information with plaintiffs' attorneys without notifying the Wage and Hour Division or the Employee Benefits Security Administration.

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Gov't Attys May Face Broader Duty To Report Misconduct

By Alison Knezevich

Attorneys representing the government could face "more demanding" obligations to disclose misconduct by people within their client organizations than attorneys representing private entities, according to an ethics opinion issued Wednesday by the American Bar Association.

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Retired Judges Rip Bid To Ban Foreign-Born Federal Judges

By Courtney Bublé

A group of 58 retired federal judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, on Wednesday came out strongly against recent proposals from Republican lawmakers that would require federal judges to be natural-born U.S. citizens and relinquish any citizenship that is not of the United States.

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US Marshals Can't Make Immigration Arrests In DC Court

By Rae Ann Varona

A D.C. federal judge Wednesday refused to toss a lawsuit from a certified class of immigrants challenging immigration arrests by U.S. marshals in D.C. Superior Court, declaring that the marshals lack authority and necessary training for the arrests.

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Securities Class Action Deals On Target To Hit 6-Year High

By Katryna Perera

The value of class action settlements is on track to reach a six-year high of $4.4 billion, fueled in part by a handful of "mega settlements" and other high-dollar deals, a Cornerstone Research report released Wednesday said. 

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