The Second Circuit declined Tuesday to revive an Avangrid Management Co. worker's suit claiming the utility business wouldn't promote her because of her age, ruling she lacked evidence that hiring managers knew how old she was when deciding what candidate was the best fit.
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2nd Circ. Backs Avangrid's Defeat Of Worker's Age Bias Suit

By Grace Elletson

The Second Circuit declined Tuesday to revive an Avangrid Management Co. worker's suit claiming the utility business wouldn't promote her because of her age, ruling she lacked evidence that hiring managers knew how old she was when deciding what candidate was the best fit.

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NLRB Judge Hits Amazon With Bargaining Order At SF Facility

By Braden Campbell

A National Labor Relations Board judge ordered Amazon to bargain with the Teamsters at a San Francisco delivery center in a decision that may give the board's Republican majority a chance to rethink the agency's reworked bargaining order standard.

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9th Circ. Allows Airport Cleaning Co. To Arbitrate Wage Claims

By Lauren Berg

A company that offers janitorial services to airports can compel arbitration in a former employee's wage and hour proposed class action, the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday, reversing a California district court's determination that the arbitration agreement was unconscionable.

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FCC's Carr Calls Policy Against DEI 'Right Thing To Do'

By Christopher Cole

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr has told Congress that tanking diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the telecom industry is not only justified but also a policy where Americans find more "common ground" than many lawmakers realize.

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11th Circ. Won't Reopen White Ex-Postmaster's Race Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

The Eleventh Circuit upheld the U.S. Postal Service's win over a white former Georgia postmaster's lawsuit alleging she was suspended for complaining that a Black mail carrier had threatened her, finding the bulk of her claims were filed too late.

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DISCRIMINATION

Mich. Appeals Court Backs Detroit In Ex-Officer's Bias Suit

By Melanie Dorsey

A former Detroit police officer failed to get his bias, retaliation and hostile work environment suit revived, as a Michigan appeals court found he had not shown that his firing was tied to his Nigerian national origin, race or sex. 

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6th Circ. Won't Disrupt Professor's Pregnancy Bias Verdict

By Patrick Hoff

The Sixth Circuit refused Tuesday to upend a $205,000 verdict in favor of a former Michigan Technological University accounting professor who said she was given a lower raise because she took maternity leave, saying a reasonable jury could conclude the dean improperly considered her pregnancy.

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WAGE & HOUR

Worker Accuses Outsourcing Co. Of Pay Errors

By MJ Koo

A former customer support worker has sued a business process outsourcing company in Massachusetts federal court, alleging the company shortchanged workers on overtime and paid them late because of its semimonthly pay system.

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Colo. Judge Says Mine Operator's FLSA Suit Can Proceed

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado federal judge declined to toss a proposed collective action that alleged a Colorado coal mining company failed to pay its hourly employees for overtime worked, ruling Tuesday that a mine operator alleged sufficient facts for the lawsuit to survive.

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LABOR

Brief

US Bars Jordan Cos.' Imports Over Forced Labor Concerns

By Jack McLoone

U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday announced it would bar shipments of any garments produced by a pair of Jordanian companies due to indications that they are being produced with forced labor.

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BENEFITS

Class Certified In Konica Minolta Workers' Severance Dispute

By George Woolston

A New Jersey federal judge Tuesday agreed to certify a class of workers alleging Konica Minolta used an office relocation as a guise to conduct a mass layoff without having to pay severance.

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Pension Fund Trustees Partially Settle $1.8M Transit Co. Suit

By Benjamin Morse

Trustees of a Teamsters-affiliated pension fund have reached a partial settlement in a lawsuit over a more than $1.8 million reallocation liability assessment against a defunct transit company, asking a New York federal court to pause claims against the settling defendants while they secure financing and make payment.

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NY-Presbyterian Tees Bid To Ax Union Funds' Antitrust Row

By Emily Brill

Three union benefit funds lack standing in their lawsuit accusing New York-Presbyterian Hospital of using anticompetitive tactics when negotiating with health insurance companies, the hospital told a New York federal judge, saying the negotiations are between it and the insurers.

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WHISTLEBLOWER

BioNTech Accused Of Firing Nurse Over Drug Trial Concerns

By Abigail Harrison

A former senior clinical trial manager at BioNTech US Inc. told a North Carolina federal court Monday that she was wrongfully fired after complaining to higher-ups about an "epidemic of safety issues and protocol deviations" in clinical trials.

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BANKRUPTCY

Insurer Waited Too Long To Void Policies Over Alleged Fraud

By Hope Patti

An insurer's bid to revoke policies issued to a defunct employee leasing agency due to misrepresentations in its insurance applications is time-barred under New York law, a federal court ruled, finding that the insurer discovered the alleged fraud more than two years before filing suit.

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PEOPLE

Seyfarth Adds Labor Pro In Dallas From Pilots Union

By Madison Arnold

Seyfarth Shaw LLP has bolstered its labor and employment capabilities with a new partner in its Dallas office who served as labor relations counsel for the Air Line Pilots Association.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Defending Against Remote Work Risks During The World Cup

With World Cup matches underway, remote work policies and security measures can help employers manage the risks of employees working from sports arenas and other nontraditional locations, including hours-worked compliance, network security and data protection, says Lisa Burton at Ogletree.

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Drawing A Line Between Settlement Pressure And Extortion

U.S. v. Luo, pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, may force courts to address anew when settlement negotiations become criminal extortion, particularly in the age of easily fabricated digital evidence, says attorney Denis Kiely.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

How 3 Courts Are Approaching AI Adoption

By Emily Sawicki

The rules surrounding artificial intelligence experimentation in courts run the gamut from court systems offering proprietary tools and training to unwritten policies that essentially amount to don't ask, don't tell.

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Analysis

With Data And AI, Whistleblowers Set Off An FCA Tidal Wave

By Phillip Bantz

Whistleblowers are increasingly using artificial intelligence to comb through public data in search of potential False Claims Act cases, unleashing a flood of new complaints that are shaking up white collar defense and government enforcement efforts while subjecting more companies to potentially false allegations, experts say.

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Conn. Justices Threaten Sanctions For AI Errors

By Andrea Keckley

The Connecticut Supreme Court has threatened to sanction GLG Law LLC and one of its attorneys for submitting documents in two cases "that misrepresented the law through the use of generative artificial intelligence," according to a Tuesday order that summoned them to appear in court next month.

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Atty DQ Over Inadvertent Doc Disclosure Overturned

By Y. Peter Kang

A California state appeals court has upended the disqualification of defense counsel in a sexual battery suit, saying documents undermining the case that were accidentally produced via a Dropbox link were not privileged.

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DOJ Nominee Questioned About Deleted Social Media Posts

By Courtney Bublé

A nominee for a top U.S. Department of Justice position, who is a real estate attorney turned tech entrepreneur, came under fire on Wednesday for past social media posts that he's now deleted.

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Booker, Cassidy Press DOJ On Trump Immunity Deal

By Courtney Bublé

Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., wrote to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday expressing "serious concerns" about the alleged immunity for President Donald Trump, his family and businesses in the controversial settlement he reached with the IRS.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Beeson Tayer

Bruckner Burch

Callahan & Blaine

Crowell & Moring

DiCello Levitt

FBT Gibbons

Fair Work PC

Fairmark Partners LLP

Farella Braun

Fisher & Phillips

Garwin Gerstein

Green Savits

Hach Rose Schirripa

Hogan Lovells

Josephson Dunlap

K&L Law Group

Keller Rohrback

Labaton Keller

Lavi & Ebrahimian

Lieff Cabraser

Littler Mendelson

Methfessel & Werbel

Morgan Lewis

Ogletree Deakins

Paul Weiss

Payne & Fears

Plunkett Cooney

Proskauer Rose

Reed Smith

Runyan Law Group

Savage Turner

Seyfarth Shaw

Sterling Employment Law

Stranch Jennings

Strianese Huckert

Susman Godfrey

Willinger Willinger

Womble Bond

Woods Rogers

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Amazon.com Inc.

American Express Co.

Avangrid Inc.

Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V.

Chicago Bar Association

Chicago Cubs Baseball Club LLC

Connecticut Legal Services

Fortress Investment Group LLC

Gawker Media LLC

Gerson Lehrman Group Inc.

Google LLC

Helix TCS Inc.

Konica Minolta Holdings

Michigan Technological University

Milwaukee Bucks

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

National Collegiate Athletic Association

New Jersey State Bar Association

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

Nike Inc.

Pennzoil

Teleperformance SA

The New York Times Co.

United Food & Commercial Workers International Union

University of Southern California

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Food and Drug Administration

Internal Revenue Service

Los Angeles Superior Court

National Labor Relations Board

Office of Justice Programs

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Georgia

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. Postal Service

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio