11th Circ. Doubts Amazon's Appeal Of Captive Audience Ban

By Braden Campbell

Amazon appeared likely Monday to lose its challenge to the National Labor Relations Board's ban on mandatory anti-union meetings after an Eleventh Circuit panel doubted the company's standing to fight the policy, which the board announced but did not apply in a decision involving the company.

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1st Circ. Keeps Union's Contract With VA Intact During Appeal

By Carolyn Muyskens

The First Circuit denied a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs request to shelve its contract with a union representing government workers during an appeal, while also pausing a lower court's order that the VA must abide by grievance procedures in the contract. 

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High Court To Examine Title IX Protections For Coaches, Profs

By Alex Lawson

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case arguing that Title IX sex discrimination safeguards should be extended to college coaches and professors, tackling a persistent split on the question among circuit courts.

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Justices Seek SG's Input In GEO Group Immunity Case

By Irene Spezzamonte

The U.S. Supreme Court asked for the U.S. solicitor general's input Monday in a case that questions whether the GEO Group is covered by intergovernmental immunity and therefore able to pay immigrant detainees $1 a day for their work.

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NY Times Editor Wants To Expand EEOC Race Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

The white New York Times editor at the center of a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sex and race discrimination case asked a federal court to let him enter the lawsuit, saying he wants to add state and local claims that can't be leveled by the bias watchdog.

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Gibson Dunn Ex-Client Development Manager Alleges Bias

By Lauren Berg

A former senior manager of client development at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP says she was overlooked for promotions by less experienced white colleagues and endured a supervisor who mocked her accent before she was ultimately fired, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in Texas federal court.

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Justices Won't Revive LA Schools COVID Vaccine Policy Suit

By Lauren Berg

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review whether the Los Angeles Unified School District's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees passes constitutional muster, keeping in place the Ninth Circuit's ruling that relied on a 121-year-old high court precedent upholding a city's smallpox vaccine policy.

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Seattle YMCA Biased Against Workers Of Color, Suit Claims

By Ben Adlin

Three former YMCA of Greater Seattle employees sued the nonprofit in Washington state court Friday, claiming the organization's leadership "treated workers of color differently and more harshly than white employees with respect to discipline, leave use, scrutiny, and termination."

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Ex-Honeywell Director's Religious Bias Suit Cleared For Trial

By Hayley Fowler

A former Honeywell director may bring his religious, age and race discrimination suit to trial after a North Carolina federal judge on Monday denied the conglomerate summary judgment, citing evidence of an HR director's email recommending termination that expressly mentions the director's religious beliefs.

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Judge Lauds Wells Fargo Settlement In 'Fake' Diversity Suit

By Sydney Price

A California federal judge has given final approval to a deal between Wells Fargo investors and executives in a derivative suit claiming the bank's leadership failed to address the company's discriminatory lending practices and engaged in "fake" interviews with diverse candidates, calling the assistance fund resulting from the settlement "significant."

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Justices Pass On Bakery Distributors' FAA Arbitration Fight

By Benjamin Morse

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to review whether a Federal Arbitration Act exemption applies to agreements between two business entities when neither is a worker, leaving intact a Second Circuit decision that sided with two delivery drivers seeking to pursue their claims in court rather than arbitration.

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Judge Severs FedEx Wage Suits Affecting 14K Drivers

By Benjamin Morse

A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday severed three wage suits against FedEx affecting more than 14,000 delivery drivers, saying their claims were improperly joined and represented an attempt to sidestep failed collective and class action efforts.

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Brief

Celebrity-Owned NY Entertainment Venue Settles Wage Suit

By MJ Koo

Tiger Woods and Justin Timberlake's New York sports bar told a federal judge on Monday that it has agreed to settle a wage and hour lawsuit brought by two bartenders who alleged the celebrity-owned venue stole their tips and shorted them on overtime pay.

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Aetna Denied A Freeze On Trans Facial Surgery Order

By Kellie Mejdrich

A Connecticut federal judge ordered Aetna to comply with a preliminary injunction requiring it to reconsider coverage denials affecting two transgender health plan participants who sought gender-affirming facial surgery, refusing to stay the insurer's compliance obligations during its pending appeal in the proposed class action.  

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Justices Turn Down PBGC's Bid To Hear Pension Bailout Suit

By Patrick Hoff

The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to take up the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.'s challenge to a Second Circuit decision that said the agency erred by rejecting the union pension fund's application for a $132 million bailout.

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Health Co. Wants Kirkland Off IP Case For 'Cardinal Sin'

By Elliot Weld

A healthcare company suing medical technology company Commure Inc. over alleged trade secret theft has said Kirkland & Ellis LLP should be disqualified from representing Commure because the healthcare company had tried to retain Kirkland prior to filing the suit and shared confidential information before anyone asked who the defendant was going to be.

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CACI Says Army Contract Partner Broke Deals, Poached Staff

By Tom Lotshaw

A CACI Inc. unit has accused Maryland-based T2S LLC of breaching a series of contract agreements between the companies and unlawfully poaching at least 20 of its employees for a U.S. Army cybersecurity initiative.

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Justices Deny Eli Lilly's Qui Tam Constitutional Challenge

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review Eli Lilly's $183 million trial loss to a whistleblower who claimed the drugmaker knowingly defrauded the government by underpaying Medicaid drug rebates.

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Revised Suit Against Healthcare Data Co. Still Fails, Court Told

By MJ Koo

A former healthcare data platform chief strategy officer's amended complaint against the employer failed again to justify bringing three out-of-state individuals into the litigation, the company told a North Carolina federal court, adding that several key claims remain flawed.

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Boeing Owed Duty To Worker's Future Kid, Wash. Panel Says

By Rachel Riley

Boeing must face claims that a factory worker's on-the-job chemical exposure caused birth defects in his child, a Washington Court of Appeals panel said in a published ruling Monday, finding that an employer "may be liable for negligence towards an employee's not-yet-conceived offspring."

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Reel Justice: 'Project Hail Mary' Can Aid Cross-Examination

In the new science fiction film, "Project Hail Mary," a character understood that survival depended on eliminating ambiguity — a useful lesson that trial lawyers can implement by asking statements that are delivered in the form of a question during cross-examination, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University.

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Series

Judges On AI: How Courts Can Survive The Tech Revolution

Colorado Supreme Court Justice Maria Berkenkotter and Colorado Court of Appeals Judge Lino Lipinsky de Orlov discuss how artificial intelligence has already fundamentally altered the legal system and offer tips for courts navigating deepfakes, hallucinations and a gap in access to AI tools.

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The 2026 Summer Associates Survey

By Daniela Porat

Law students hoping to land summer associate roles at their dream firms have to start applying earlier and earlier, forcing students to strike a difficult balance between focusing on academics and completing applications. Find out how students navigated the ever-competitive process and which firms topped students’ wish lists in the latest survey from Law360 Pulse.

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Cooley Adds Privacy Duo From Perkins Coie In DC, Denver

By Andrea Keckley

Cooley LLP announced on Tuesday that it has welcomed two attorneys to its cyber, data and privacy practice from Perkins Coie LLP, one of whom had co-chaired that firm's privacy and security practice.

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Brother May Pay Ex-BigLaw Atty's Legal Fees In Insider Case

By Julie Manganis

A former BigLaw associate charged with orchestrating a sweeping insider trading scheme can have his legal expenses covered by his co-defendant brother if the two waive potential conflicts, a Massachusetts federal magistrate judge said Tuesday.

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Ex-Trader Says Crypto Co.'s Bid For Sanctions Is 'Unfounded'

By Hayley Fowler

A former trader said a cryptocurrency company is using an "unfounded" characterization of his deposition conduct to seek sanctions and lend credence to facts it hasn't otherwise been able to prove in its suit accusing him of usurping $8.1 million in digital assets.

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Akerman Goes All In With AI At Orlando Retreat

By Matt Perez

When planning Akerman LLP's employee retreat held once every two years, chief executive Scott Meyers quickly honed in on artificial intelligence and how he wanted the firm to think about the technology.

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Seeborg's Term As Calif. Northern District Chief Judge To End

By Bonnie Eslinger

Chief District Judge Richard Seeborg is expected to conclude his time as the top judge for the Northern District of California in July, according to a spokesperson for the judiciary, to be succeeded by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.

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Nelson Mullins Partner Confirmed To SC Federal Bench

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 52-38 on Tuesday to confirm Sheria Clarke, a partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, as a judge for the District of South Carolina.

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$1.8B IRS Deal Fund 'Not Slush Fund,' Blanche Tells Senators

By Courtney Bublé

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche argued before a Senate committee on Tuesday that the nearly $1.8 billion settlement fund announced on Monday as part of the president's settlement with the Internal Revenue Service over his leaked tax documents "is not a slush fund."

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