A California biopharmaceutical company told the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday that a district court erred in letting its former chief financial officer move her discrimination claims out of arbitration and into federal court, saying she arbitrated too long before invoking the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act.
A California biopharmaceutical company told the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday that a district court erred in letting its former chief financial officer move her discrimination claims out of arbitration and into federal court, saying she arbitrated too long before invoking the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act.
A Fifth Circuit panel pressed Starbucks Corp. to explain how former CEO Howard Schultz's comments telling a pro-union employee they could find another job did not run afoul of labor law, saying Tuesday the comments could be seen as threatening retaliation.
A Fifth Circuit panel seemed skeptical of the National Labor Relations Board's claim that it can slap Starbucks Corp. with a labor law violation after it allegedly sent overbroad subpoenas to pro-union employees, saying Tuesday it seemed like the board created a "liability trap."
A former Marshalls worker told the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday that a district judge wrongly relied on the "mailbox rule" to send his employment suit to arbitration because Marshalls had mailed him an arbitration agreement, saying he never received it and California law requires that he actively agree to the deal.
Instacart on Tuesday asked a federal court to block New York City's new regulations for app-based delivery workers, claiming that the new minimum wage, consumer tipping options and disclosure requirements run afoul of limits to the city's authority and threaten Instacart's operations.
The Fourth Circuit declined Tuesday to reinstate an Indian professor's suit claiming his colleagues at North Carolina State University sabotaged his initial bid for tenure out of race discrimination, ruling that concerns about his teaching appeared to inform the tenure denial.
The University of Colorado's medical school will pay $10.3 million to a group of employees and students who claimed in federal court that their religious exemption requests to the university's COVID-19 vaccine mandate were unlawfully denied, according to the group's attorneys.
CSX Transportation Inc. can't escape a former employee's lawsuit alleging he was unlawfully fired for taking medical leave, with a Florida federal judge ruling that the dismissal of class claims in a similar case didn't start the clock ticking on the ex-worker's deadline to file suit.
Microsoft Corp. held up a blind employee as an example of its commitment to inclusive hiring, then canned his accessibility project for people with vision issues and laid him off, according to a recent suit in Washington state court accusing the company of illegal discrimination.
A former prison chaplain who was terminated by the Florida Department of Corrections for refusing to train a female minister brought a federal suit alleging religious discrimination, saying he was fired for upholding his Christian belief that a woman should not be allowed to preach to male inmates.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission failed to satisfy its conciliation obligations before filing an age discrimination lawsuit against a Colorado hospital, the facility told a federal court, arguing that the case should be paused for the parties to try to work out a deal.
A New Jersey state appellate panel on Tuesday rejected a bid to disqualify DeCotiis Fitzpatrick Cole & Giblin LLP from representing the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and two employees in a discrimination case filed by a medical facility and doctors who performed work for authority members.
Former assistant public defender Caryn Devins Strickland lost her bid to have the full Fourth Circuit rehear her sexual harassment suit against the federal judiciary, as judges ruled they didn't overlook her pro bono legal team's withdrawal on the eve of her bench trial.
An Illinois county nabbed a partial win in a wage suit by 911 dispatchers, a federal judge ruled, finding that the workers abandoned a challenge to a meal break deduction but holding that the county's collective bargaining agreement didn't qualify for a federal overtime exemption.
An Italian restaurant in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood that recently received a "recommended" rating from the Michelin Guide improperly pooled tips and stole wages from its servers, according to a proposed class action filed in state court.
A group of Ohio-based home care staffing agencies accused of shorting employees on overtime pay have settled a putative class action against them alleging violations of state and federal wage laws.
If the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette must restore its union-represented editorial staff's pre-2020 healthcare benefits, it will shut down, the newspaper's publisher claimed in a brief filed with the Third Circuit, requesting another shot at pausing an injunction that compelled the paper to restore the benefits.
Pennsylvania's Supreme Court will consider whether a 2021 voter referendum restricting the use of solitary confinement and pepper spray at the Allegheny County Jail infringed on the jail employee union's collective bargaining rights, the court announced Tuesday.
A New York federal court issued a preliminary injunction barring California-based insurance broker Alliant and two employees from soliciting and accepting the workers' former Marsh & McLennan Agency clients, yet refused to prevent their continued servicing of clients who have already moved their business to Alliant.
Amerant Bank has been hit with a suit in Florida state court accusing it of ousting a senior vice president for speaking out against alleged prohibited activity at the bank, including several violations the former executive says were carried out by the bank's trust department.
An attorney defending the Los Angeles Angels against negligence claims related to the overdose death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs confronted his widow on the stand Tuesday with his texts about drug use, including one message saying, "I'm a drug addict lol," but she maintained that she never observed any "red flags."
Florida's recent request to file a bill of complaint in the U.S. Supreme Court against California and Washington, asserting that the states' policies conflict with the federal English language proficiency standard for truck drivers, transforms a conventional wrongful death case into a high-stakes constitutional challenge, say attorneys at Farah & Farah.
McKool Smith is the latest BigLaw firm to announce extra cash for attorneys who went above and beyond with billable hours in 2025, according to an internal memo obtained by Law360 Pulse.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC announced plans for its first top leadership transition in more than a decade on Wednesday, tapping a Palo Alto, California-based litigator and a New York-based corporate lawyer to begin co-leading the firm at the start of next August.
A former Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP partner known for handling high-profile stockholder cases has led the launch of a boutique focused on corporate disputes and securities litigation after the firm says he was fired for misconduct.
A California state appeals court has ordered an attorney accused of including artificial intelligence "hallucinations" in a client's opening brief to pay $7,500 to the court, saying in a published opinion that the attorney is subject to sanctions for inaccuracies, regardless of whether they were the result of AI.
The Federal Trade Commission has endorsed a proposal from the Texas Supreme Court to abandon a rule requiring graduation from a law school approved by the American Bar Association for admittance to the state bar, saying the organization's "accreditation monopoly" hurts competition and consumers.
The Virginia State Bar has declined to investigate whether Lindsey Halligan should face discipline over her scandal-plagued tenure as the interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, just days after a federal judge ruled she was not properly appointed to that post.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, subpoenaed former counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday for a closed-door deposition, to which President Donald Trump said he would rather see a public testimony.
The First Circuit on Wednesday expressed misgivings about a former BigLaw attorney's argument that a jury that convicted him of a campaign finance scheme during a failed run for Congress should have been required to unanimously find that each specific transaction was illegal.
Archegos founder Bill Hwang, who is serving an 18-year sentence for defrauding banks out of billions of dollars in loans used to manipulate the market, asked to vacate his restitution order because the presiding judge's clerk accepted a job with Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, which represents victim-bank Morgan Stanley.
The Senate voted 57-41 on Wednesday to confirm Matthew Orso, a partner at Troutman Pepper Locke LLP, to the Western District of North Carolina as a federal district judge.
The Federal Circuit has urged the D.C. Circuit to ignore Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's request to rehear a decision upholding the dismissal of her suit against the colleagues who suspended her, saying the judiciary has the right to police its own internal matters.
