The full Ninth Circuit Thursday backed the National Labor Relations Board's decision in a union battle for work on a Seattle marine cargo terminal, ruling the International Longshore and Warehouse Union can't use the "work-preservation defense" to defeat accusations that it illegally pressured an employer for disputed work.
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9th Circ. Sides With NLRB In Wash. Terminal Union Work Fight

By Rachel Riley

The full Ninth Circuit Thursday backed the National Labor Relations Board's decision in a union battle for work on a Seattle marine cargo terminal, ruling the International Longshore and Warehouse Union can't use the "work-preservation defense" to defeat accusations that it illegally pressured an employer for disputed work.

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United Gets Flight Attendant's Sex Harassment Suit Narrowed

By Patrick Hoff

A Colorado federal judge trimmed but refused to completely toss a flight attendant's lawsuit claiming United Airlines failed to prevent a former pilot from stalking and distributing intimate images of her without her consent, saying she plausibly alleged the airline was slow to act after being contacted by the police.

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LSU Gets Damages Sliced In Attys' Pay Bias Suit

By MJ Koo

A Louisiana federal judge has slashed the damages awarded to two former in-house attorneys who won a retaliation verdict against their university employer over gender pay equity complaints, cutting each award from $750,000 to $280,000 while rejecting bids for a new trial or outright dismissal.

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Facebook Whistleblower Fights For Right To Promote Memoir

By Bonnie Eslinger

An ex-Facebook executive who wrote a whistleblower memoir urged a California federal judge Thursday to toss a preliminary arbitration decision blocking her from promoting the book or disparaging Meta, while the company countered that she agreed to resolve such disputes by arbitration when she accepted a $780,000 payout.

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Jay-Z Appeals Buzbee Win In Rapper's Defamation Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Music mogul Jay-Z's counsel fought uphill Thursday to convince a California state appeals court to revive claims that Texas attorney Tony Buzbee defamed and extorted him by roping him into a sexual abuse suit against Sean "Diddy" Combs, arguing in court that a trial court erroneously read evidence in Buzbee's favor.

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DISCRIMINATION

TikTok's Ex-Legal Head Made Racist Comments, Suit Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

TikTok and its former head of global legal operations have been accused in a California state court lawsuit of harassment and discrimination based on race and sex by a former legal department employee who claims the executive subjected her and other nonwhite colleagues to an "unrelenting campaign of harassment."

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Johns Hopkins Hit With Sex Discrimination, Retaliation Suit

By Gianna Ferrarin

Johns Hopkins University was hit with a complaint in California federal court alleging it impaired a graduate student's educational access and retaliated against her after she returned from a pregnancy-related leave and accused her former adviser of sexual misconduct.

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NJ Town CFO Says Retaliation Followed Cancer Disclosure

By George Woolston

The chief financial officer for a Garden State municipality alleged in New Jersey state court that her job duties were diminished in retaliation for her reporting improper cash handling and requesting time off to undergo cancer treatment.

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WAGE & HOUR

Brief

Elevance Health Gets Final OK On $14.75M Nurse OT Deal

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Virginia federal court granted final approval Thursday to a $14.75 million global settlement resolving five related suits against Elevance Health by nurses who accused the insurer of misclassifying them as exempt from overtime pay.

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Sephora Denied Wash. Workers Breaks, Class Action Says

By Rachel Riley

Sephora is facing a proposed class action from a former employee who claims the beauty retailer deprived Washington state workers of legally required meal and rest periods and failed to compensate them for missed breaks.

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Wash. Judge Trims Claims In Construction Wage Suit

By Katherine Smith

A Washington federal judge has narrowed a carpenter apprentice's amended complaint alleging that a Seattle construction company shorted employees on wages for off-the-clock work, ruling that the claims involving missed rest and meal breaks were preempted by federal law.

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Cannabis Co. Fights Class Status In Tipped Wages Suit

By Celeste Bott

Cannabis dispensary company Curaleaf Holdings urged an Illinois federal court Tuesday not to allow workers to proceed as a class and collective with their tipped wages claims, saying its tip practices didn't stem from a common corporate policy but rather a patchwork of "legacy practices inherited through serial acquisitions, varying by state, store, manager, and time."

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Smoke Shop Chain Misclassified Workers, Owes OT, Suit Says

By Jonathan Capriel

A chain of Houston-area smokeshops and their owners allegedly misclassified their employees as independent contractors to avoid paying overtime, according to a worker-led lawsuit filed in Texas federal court seeking unpaid wages for similar employees.

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Guard Says Security Co. Denies Pay For Preshift Work

By MJ Koo

A Colorado security guard has sued his employer in federal court, alleging the company denies him and hundreds of other guards pay for preshift work, interrupts meal and rest breaks and contacts workers off the clock.

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LABOR

Colo. County's Union-Law Suit Tossed Over Lack Of Standing

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado federal judge dismissed a county board of commissioners' complaint Thursday for lack of standing after finding that the county sought prospective relief only from a state law expanding county employees' right to unionize and that the county failed to allege any potential injury.

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Brief

Ex-Immigration Officer To Admit Embezzling $60K From Union

By Julie Manganis

The former treasurer of a federal workers' union local has agreed to plead guilty to embezzling more than $60,000 to pay for expenses ranging from food and utility bills to dance lessons, the U.S. attorney's office in Massachusetts announced Thursday.

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BENEFITS

Coal Co. Loses 4th Circ. Challenge To Black Lung Benefits

By Carla Baranauckas

The Fourth Circuit on Thursday upheld a Black Lung Benefits Act award to a former underground electrician, finding that an administrative law judge reasonably relied on two medical experts who linked his chronic lung problems to nearly 12 years of coal mine work.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Managing OSHA Mental Illness Logs After 5th Circ. Vacatur

Employers with facilities in multiple states need to carefully weigh their recordkeeping procedures following the Fifth Circuit’s recent decision that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration cannot require employers to log work-related mental illness, as inconsistent logs across facilities may raise other issues, say attorneys at Haynes Boone.

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Monitor Exposure, Stay Flexible Amid Tariff Uncertainty

To navigate an unstable trade environment, businesses must evaluate their exposure to new tariffs invoked under a patchwork of statutory authorities and be prepared to adapt to further changes that may be on the horizon, says Bhargav Prajapati at Capital Trade.

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Mitigating The Risk Of Antiestablishment Jurors

The legal battles currently embroiling social media companies underscore that jurors with anti-corporate bias and conspiratorial thinking patterns pose myriad risks to corporate defendants, and defense counsel should adapt their trial strategies accordingly, say consultants at Persuasion Strategies.

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Series

Being In A Band Made Me A Better Lawyer

Playing shows in storied New York City venues and rehearsing with my bandmates in poorly ventilated rooms helped develop the professional qualities I rely on as a litigator, including an ability to collaborate with strong-minded equals and the determination to treat each client with singular focus, says Eliad Shapiro at Herrick Feinstein.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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Analysis

The Race Is On To Confirm Trump's Judges By Year-End

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump nominated 11 judges this past week, meaning 19 nominees are now in the pipeline. But how many can the Senate confirm before the end of the year, given that it will mostly be absent and consumed by the midterm election? 

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Trump Admin Moves Toward Nixing ABA's Accreditor Status

By Emma Cueto

The Department of Education has made a preliminary finding that the American Bar Association is not in compliance with the department's regulations and standards as an accreditor of law schools, a move that comes as the ABA seeks to modify or repeal standards related to diversity, equity and inclusion in an attempt to preserve its accreditor status.

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Law Schools Flooded With Applicants For 3rd Straight Year

By Tracey Read

This year's U.S. law school applicant pool is up nearly 8% over 2025, with significant growth in Asian and Black prospective attorneys, according to new data from the Law School Admission Council.

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Divided 2nd Circ. Backs DQ Of Acting NDNY US Attorney

By Stewart Bishop

The Second Circuit on Friday upheld a lower court's decision that found the acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York, John Sarcone III, was unlawfully serving in his position when he obtained grand jury subpoenas of the New York attorney general's office.

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Fla. Attorney Fined, Referred To Bar For Unapologetic AI Use

By Madison Arnold

A Florida attorney is the latest to be sanctioned for his use of artificial intelligence, after a Florida state appeals court found Friday that his filings contained at least 46 hallucinations.

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Wiley Data Breach Class Action Dropped As 2 Sides Confer

By Emily Sawicki

A Florida resident pursuing negligence and unjust-enrichment claims against Wiley Rein LLP over a data breach voluntarily dismissed his proposed class action on Friday while leaving the door open to refile, one day after the firm told the D.C. federal court that the two sides were "conferring" on next steps.

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Gov't To Take 9th Circ.'s Bar Of Nev. US Atty To High Court

By Madison Arnold

The U.S. government asked the Ninth Circuit to stay its ruling disqualifying Nevada's top prosecutor from assuming that role without Senate confirmation, saying it plans to take the issue to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Trump Says Pardon Atty Ed Martin Leaving For Midterms

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. pardon attorney Ed Martin will be leaving the administration to work on the midterm elections, President Donald Trump announced on Friday.

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Judge's Job Bid Sinks Conn. Atty's Homicide Conviction

By Brian Steele

Former Cramer & Anderson LLP partner Robert L. Fisher Jr. is entitled to a new manslaughter trial because the presiding judge at his original trial "created an appearance of a lack of impartiality" when he did not disclose to the parties that he had applied for an oversight job with the state prosecutor's office, an appeals court ruled Friday.

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Roundup

Balancing The Scales: Diminished Capacity, Sentencing Rules

By Orlando Lorenzo

The Michigan Supreme Court has overturned 25 years of state precedent by reviving the diminished capacity defense, and the justices in Pennsylvania said the Legislature is out of time to craft new sentencing guidelines for second-degree murder. Here, Law360 highlights access to justice stories arising from litigation, verdicts and judgments you may have missed.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen former Liberal Democrat MP Mark Oaten sue a fur auction house, private equity and pensions magnate Edmund Truell hit by a commercial fraud claim and Charles Russell Speechlys file a contract claim against two of its previous clients in the Middle East.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

A California federal judge told Meta that its in-house attorney was absolutely wrong about what constitutes attorney-client privilege and should take an ethics course. And a bipartisan group of 128 ex-judges have asked the Florida Bar to investigate Homeland Security's general counsel for his attacks on sitting judges. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.​

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Eversheds Sutherland, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and McDermott Will & Schulte lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after Maryland's tax court held that the state's first-in-the-nation digital advertising tax violates the federal Internet Tax Freedom Act.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Ashurst Perkins

Baker & Hostetler

Ballard Spahr

Barnard Iglitzin

Barnes & Thornburg

Beale & Co. Solicitors

Buenker Law Firm

Burges Salmon

Bush Gottlieb

Butler Curwood

Buzbee Law Firm

CJ Jones Solicitors

Charles Russell Speechlys

Cleary Gottlieb

Clifford Chance

Clyde & Co

Conti Levy

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cramer & Anderson

DAC Beachcroft

DLA Piper

DWF LLP

Davis Wright Tremaine

Devonshires Solicitors

Emery Reddy

Eversheds Sutherland

Farrell & Fuller

Fenwick & West

Ferraro Vega

Fieldfisher

Finnegan

Freshfields

Garfinkel Group

Gibson Dunn

Goodwin Procter

Greenberg Traurig

Harman Claytor

Haynes Boone

Hedin LLP

Herrick Feinstein

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Horvitz & Levy

Howard Kennedy LLP

Ionno & Higbee

Jon L. Schoenhorn & Associates

Jones Day

Kennedys Law LLP

Keoghs LLP

Keystone Law

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Law Offices of James L. Arrasmith

Lawson & Weitzen

Leonard Carder LLP

Lewis Silkin

McDermott Will & Schulte

McGuireWoods

Meritz Reddy

Meyer Darragh

Mills & Reeve

Morgan Lewis

Motley Rice

Munger Tolles

Nichols Kaster

Norton Rose

Orrick Herrington

Peters & Peters Solicitors

Phelps Dunbar

Pillsbury Winthrop

Reed Smith

Reynolds Porter

Robinson & McElwee

Ropes & Gray

Schneider Wallace

Sebris Busto

Selendy Gay

Seyfarth Shaw

Sheppard Mullin

Sidley Austin

Squire Patton

Stephensons Solicitors LLP

Stevens & Bolton

Troutman

Weightmans LLP

Weinberg Roger

Wiley Rein

Wolfe Williams

Womble Bond

Zimmer Citron

gunnercooke LLP

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AT&T Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American Federation of Government Employees

American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees

Apple Inc.

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.

Arthrex Inc.

Audi AG

Barclays PLC

Becton Dickinson & Co.

Boyer Co.

ByteDance Ltd.

Caesars Entertainment Inc.

Corinthian Colleges, Inc.

Cottrell Inc.

Curaleaf Holdings Inc.

Cushman & Wakefield Inc.

Dropbox Inc.

Dubai International Financial Centre

Early Warning Services LLC

Elevance Health Inc.

Exxon Mobil Corp.

Faiveley Transport SA

Ferrari SpA

Friedman LLP

George Washington University

Google LLC

Hanscom Federal Credit Union

Instagram Inc.

International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers

International Longshore & Warehouse Union

Johns Hopkins University

Kinder Morgan Inc.

Kohl's Corp.

Law School Admission Council Inc.

Learning Resources Inc.

Lease Crutcher Lewis

LinkedIn Corp.

Lockheed Martin Corp.

Los Angeles Lakers

Medtronic PLC

Meta Platforms Inc.

Network Rail Ltd.

Pacific Maritime Association

Peacock TV

Peel Ports Ltd.

Persuasion Strategies

ProQuest LLC

Quince

Sephora SA

Smith & Nephew plc

Solicitors Regulation Authority Ltd.

Stena Line Group

Tesla Inc.

The Florida Bar

The Walt Disney Co.

TikTok Inc.

TripAdvisor Inc.

Trump Organization Inc.

U.S. Bancorp

United Airlines Holdings Inc.

United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America

Venus Aerospace Corp.

Vodafone Group PLC

Volkswagen AG

Zumba Fitness LLC

easyJet plc

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Labor Statistics

California Civil Rights Department

Colorado Department of Labor and Employment

Companies House

Congressional Research Service

European Union

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

Florida Supreme Court

HMRC

Los Angeles Superior Court

Michigan Supreme Court

National Labor Relations Board

New Jersey Supreme Court

New York Attorney General's Office

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Port of Seattle

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Nevada

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of State

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

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

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

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

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

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the District of Nevada