Oncor Wins Long-Running Union Firing Fight At DC Circ.

By Emily Brill

A major Texas electric company was allowed to fire a union-represented worker for testifying that the company's smart meters were damaging people's homes, a D.C. Circuit panel ruled Tuesday, finding the worker's 2012 testimony at a Texas Senate committee hearing wasn't protected by the National Labor Relations Act.

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10th Circ. Backs Hospital In Ex-Worker's Disability Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

The Tenth Circuit refused to upend a Kansas hospital's defeat of a former maintenance worker's lawsuit claiming he was fired for taking time off to manage his anxiety, ruling the three-month gap between his leave request and his termination was too long for the events to be connected.

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ADT Blasts 'Speculative' Bid To DQ Ogletree From Bias Case

By Gina Kim

ADT LLC urged a Georgia federal judge on Monday to reject an attorney's motion to disqualify Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC from defending it against discrimination claims while concurrently defending Microsoft Corp. in the attorney's own pregnancy bias suit, arguing the two matters are wholly separate and unrelated so there's no conflict. 

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NJ County Prosecutor's Office Hit With Pregnancy Bias Suit

By Jake Maher

A detective from a New Jersey county prosecutor's office has sued the office and several officers for pregnancy discrimination, alleging they mocked her, took away her gun and ignored her complaints.

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Uber, Drivers Drop Appeal In Yearslong Misclassification Fight

By Benjamin Morse

A group of Uber Black drivers and the ride-hailing company agreed Tuesday to dismiss the drivers' appeal before the Third Circuit in a protracted worker classification dispute that has spanned a decade, according to a federal court filing.

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Maurene Comey Can Sue DOJ Over Firing, Judge Rules

By Phillip Bantz

Former Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey can move forward with her lawsuit alleging that President Donald Trump's administration fired her because she is the daughter of ex-FBI director and Trump's perceived enemy James B. Comey, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

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BU Flouted Student's Brain Injury Accommodations, Suit Says

By Julie Manganis

A former student and instructor at Boston University says she was forced out of her doctoral program after a faculty adviser and an administrator interfered with previously approved disability accommodations following a traumatic brain injury.

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Mich. Atty Seeks Devices, Privilege Logs In Discovery Fight

By Melanie Dorsey

A law firm managing partner accused of sexually harassing an attorney when she worked at his firm has asked a Michigan federal court to force the woman to hand over allegedly withheld communications and forensic imaging of electronic devices.

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DOJ Accuses Cloudera Of Favoring Temporary Visa Workers

By Gina Kim

The federal government on Tuesday sued data company Cloudera Inc. for allegedly discriminating against U.S.-based job candidates by earmarking specific positions for employees on temporary visas.

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Nurses Fight 'Deceptive' Opt-Out Push In $14M Wage Deal

By Benjamin Morse

Nurses involved in a $14 million wage-and-hour class settlement are urging a Colorado federal judge to block what they call a misleading opt-out campaign by a named plaintiff in a related action in state court, saying mass texts promising unsubstantiated recoveries threaten to undermine the deal.

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Judge OKs $375K Wage Deal For Dispensary Workers

By Jonathan Capriel

A group of cannabis dispensaries operated by MMD Inc. has agreed to pay $375,000 to end a lawsuit by workers who accused them of cheating employees out of minimum wage, overtime, tips, meal and rest breaks, and expense reimbursements.

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Ex-PR Director Seeks Early Win In Vacation Pay Delay Suit

By Benjamin Morse

A former director of public relations and marketing for an automotive company urged a North Carolina federal court to grant her an early win on her remaining wage claim, saying the company failed to timely pay accrued vacation after her termination.

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NFL Players Union Wants Out Of Ex-Raven's Grievance Suit

By Katherine Smith

The National Football League Players Association and its attorney have urged a Texas federal court to toss allegations that they delayed and then dropped a former linebacker's knee injury dispute with the Baltimore Ravens without consulting him, arguing the ex-player failed to adequately support his claims of the union's misconduct.

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Union Urges Toss Of Tobacco Co.'s Retiree Health Fight

By Emily Brill

A North Carolina federal judge should let a tobacco workers' union keep its win in a retiree healthcare fight with the company that makes Winston and Salem cigarettes, the union argued, saying the company's challenge to a November arbitration award can't proceed because it wasn't properly filed.

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Hartford HealthCare Misused Privilege, Teamsters Plan Says

By Aaron Keller

Hartford HealthCare should be forced to produce 182 documents withheld under the attorney-client privilege from an antitrust lawsuit, say a Teamsters health plan and a transit district that claim the hospital group is exercising monopoly power over regional health services markets within Connecticut.

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Attys Want To See Examples In New Mental Health Parity Rule

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Trump administration's plans to promulgate new regulations governing mental health parity requirements for employee health plans are currently causing headaches for benefits attorneys, but a rule that includes specific examples could ultimately ease compliance burdens for retirement plan sponsors.

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Lobbyist Can Keep Space Co. Job Amid Noncompete Suit

By José Luis Martínez

A Texas federal judge allowed Axiom Space Inc.'s former policy adviser to continue working for rival commercial space infrastructure firm Vast Inc. and scheduled a fast-track trial on the dispute, denying Axiom's bid for a temporary restraining order.

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Citigroup Escapes Ex-Employee's Trade Secret Suit, For Now

By Adam Lidgett

A New Jersey federal judge has thrown out a former Citigroup employee's trade secret suit claiming the bank wrongly used an investment banking presentation he made to a former colleague, but gave him a chance to amend the case.

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Allergan Seeks Sanctions Over Discovery In Botox Fight

By Elliot Weld

Botox manufacturer Allergan has asked a Tennessee federal judge to sanction Revance Therapeutics, claiming its attorneys made misrepresentations to run out the clock on discovery and prevent Allergan from obtaining essential information in a case alleging theft of trade secrets.

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Duracell Loses Bid To Ax BASF's Lithium Battery Secrets Suit

By Lauren Berg

Battery-maker Duracell cannot escape chemical company BASF Corp.'s lawsuit accusing it of stealing trade secrets about its lithium battery technology after gaining access to the information through a cooperation agreement, a Delaware federal judge ruled Tuesday.

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Wells Fargo Says DEI Whistleblower's Suit Belongs In Fla.

By Craig Clough

Wells Fargo told a California federal court a former employee's suit alleging he was retaliated against for challenging what he described as the bank's fake commitment to diverse hiring should be tossed or transferred to Florida because it is "a plain and obvious case of disfavored forum shopping."

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Booz Allen Should Defeat Retaliation Suit, Judge Says

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal judge has recommended granting Booz Allen Hamilton's bid to toss a whistleblower suit from a Black former senior executive after finding that his suit failed to allege his bosses knew about his complaints of time fraud before he was fired two years ago.

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Conn. Mom Drops Wine Tasting Crash Suit After $375K Offer

By Brian Steele

The mother of a Connecticut restaurant worker who died in a drunken driving crash after an allegedly mandatory wine tasting event has dropped a lawsuit against an alcohol distributor and its employee, weeks after offering to settle for $375,000.

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Illinois Panel Limits BIPA Exemption For Gov't Contractors

By Lauraann Wood

The Biometric Information Privacy Act's government contractor exclusion is not a categorical exemption and applies only to violations that occur within the scope of a vendor's government-contracted work, an Illinois state appellate panel said Tuesday.

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Federal 401(k) Plan Would Create Fiduciary Litigation Risks

President Donald Trump recently previewed an initiative to make a public 401(k)-style plan option available to all American workers who lack access to an employer-sponsored retirement plan, raising novel and complex litigation issues that merit careful attention, say attorneys at Willkie.

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Initial Virginia AG Actions Signal Focus On Multistate Efforts

Now that Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones has reached the 100-day mark in office, his first set of actions reveals a clear preference for coalition with regional and national counterparts, which means the primary risk for businesses is no longer just the fact of enforcement, but the speed at which investigations can escalate, says Lauren Cooper at Hogan Lovells.

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GrayRobinson Sued Over 'Reckless' Data Security Measures

By Adrian Cruz

GrayRobinson PA has been hit with a proposed class action accusing the Florida-based firm of negligence following the revelation of a March 2025 data breach that exposed the personal data of around 65,000 people.

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Judge Publicly Scolds 'Disgraced' Ex-Prosecutor For AI Errors

By Hayley Fowler

A North Carolina federal judge has eviscerated a former federal prosecutor in a public reprimand for his use of artificial intelligence to draft a response brief that was riddled with hallucinations, calling out the prosecutor's "lack of candor" and saying he "disgraced not only himself, but also the entire office he formerly served."

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Comey Indicted Again As Feds Call Seashell Message 'Threat'

By Phillip Bantz

Former FBI director James Comey was again indicted Tuesday by the Trump administration, this time over a social media post last year of an image of seashells arranged on a North Carolina beach to form the message "86 47," which prosecutors characterized as a threat of violence against the president.

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Nadine Menendez Says Feds Need To 'Look Into The Mirror'

By George Woolston

Nadine Menendez dug into her bid for bail while she appeals her conviction on a bribery scheme carried out with her ex-politician husband, telling a New York federal court that prosecutors refuse to own up to their handling of the "forced withdrawal" of her counsel.

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Teleflex Settles Catheter Patent Case Against Medtronic

By Elliot Weld

Medical device company Teleflex and Medtronic have reached a settlement to end a catheter patent dispute from which a judge recused himself after explaining he was "at a loss" on how to proceed.

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