Judge Favors Arbitration Of Ex-Jackson Lewis Atty's Bias Suit

By Grace Elletson

A California federal judge appears poised to back Jackson Lewis' bid to force a disability bias suit from one of its former attorneys into arbitration, according to a tentative Thursday order which said he's not persuaded that a law barring mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment disputes covered her case.

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Ex-Kean Law Prof Can't Challenge NJ Policy, 3rd Circ. Says

By Lauren Berg

A former Kean University adjunct law professor doesn't have standing to challenge the constitutionality of a workplace discrimination policy for New Jersey employees, the Third Circuit ruled Thursday, saying she hasn't shown what actual or imminent harm she faces now that she is no longer subject to the policy.

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GM To Depose Ex-FCA Exec Again After Judge Flags Gaps

By Susan Smiley

Former Fiat Chrysler Automobiles executive Alphons Iacobelli can be deposed a second time by counsel for General Motors LLC, a Michigan state judge ruled Thursday, emphasizing that Iacobelli must turn over all documents requested by GM and that omitting pertinent information from his testimony is not an option.

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Adidas Complaint Response Was Wanting, Ex-Worker Testifies

By Cara Salvatore

A former senior Adidas employee staffed on a Beyoncé partnership testified Thursday in her Oregon retaliation trial that she was not regularly updated by human resources as to the status of her complaints regarding another employee who allegedly called her a racial slur.

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Ex-NJ US Atty Hit With Ethics Charges Over Trump Club Case

By Rose Krebs

New Jersey's former acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba Mildon has been hit with an ethics complaint over an alleged conflict of interest when she advised a former Trump Organization golf club server in connection with a sexual harassment suit.

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11th Circ. Backs Emory Healthcare In Ex-Prof's ADA Suit

By David Aaro

The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday declined to reinstate a lawsuit from a former professor at Emory University's healthcare arm who claimed she faced "unrelenting" retaliation for taking time off after a knee injury, saying she hadn't shown that her alleged mistreatment stemmed from a desire to punish her.

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Bus Driver Accuses NYC Transit Authority, Union Of Bias

By Emily Brill

A New York City bus driver has hit the city's transit authority and his union with a religious discrimination suit, accusing them of retaliating against him for complaining after he learned that a union leader had mocked his Rastafarian head covering.

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NY Contractor Gets Final OK For $162M Caregiver Wage Deal

By Katherine Smith

A New York federal magistrate judge has signed off on final approval of a $162 million settlement in a proposed class and collective action against a contractor that helps administer a state Medicaid program, ending claims that the company failed to pay personal care assistants accurately or on time.

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FEMA Subcontractor Defends No-Poach, Wage-Fixing Suit

By Matthew Perlman

A disaster response worker is defending a proposed class action accusing Fluor Federal Services Inc. and several subcontractors of fixing wages and agreeing not to hire each other's workers, arguing that one of the companies identified members of the conspiracy in writing.

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Philly Four Points Hotel Sued Over Irregular Scheduling

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A group of hotel housekeepers have filed putative class claims against the Four Points by Sheraton in Philadelphia, saying it violated a city employment law by failing to provide workers with predictable, regular scheduling.

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Temp Worker Says Waste Hauler Owes Pay For Waiting Time

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Massachusetts man who temporarily worked for a trash hauler while Teamsters-affiliated sanitation workers were on strike says he was not paid for time he was required to wait at a staging area to be transported to and from his assigned routes.

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NLRB Rejects Stanford's Student Union Challenge

By Braden Campbell

The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday denied Stanford University's call to rethink precedent empowering certain college student workers to unionize, noting a group of resident assistants withdrew the representation petition the challenge was based on.

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3rd Circ. Backs Union In Utility Co. Doctor's Note Dispute

By Katherine Smith

An electric utility must reimburse a lineman for a doctor's note he was asked to provide after calling out sick, the Third Circuit has ruled, finding that a lower court erred by rejecting an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local's bid to enforce an award ordering the reimbursement.

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Coldwell Banker's Trade Secrets Win In Calif. Reversed

By Craig Clough

A split California state appeals court panel has reversed a directed verdict win for Coldwell Banker and some employees accused of stealing trade secrets from a rival real estate company, finding a lower court judge imposed an unreasonable trial time limit and forced the rival to rest before it could finish presenting its case.

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Ex-Wine Co. Exec Had 'Unusual' Distributions Deal, Jury Told

By Aaron Keller

The former president of a company that controls Josh Cellars wines was warned his employment and operating agreements could require a "very long" wait for possible distributions from a trademark holding entity, the executive's personal lawyer testified Thursday during a breach of contract trial in Connecticut state court.

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Religious Employer Bias Ruling Lands In Unsettled Landscape

Despite the Fourth Circuit's recent ruling in Doe v. Catholic Relief Services that a religious nonprofit violated federal and state antidiscrimination law by terminating health insurance coverage for a nonministerial employee's same-sex spouse, the boundary between religious autonomy and antidiscrimination law remains unsettled for lay employees, say attorneys at Ogletree.

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Ex-Cravath Staffer Charged With Insider Trading

By Stewart Bishop

A former employee at Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP on Thursday was arrested and charged with insider trading for allegedly exploiting nonpublic information about major deals involving the firm's clients, including Paramount Skydance Corp.'s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

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Posner Remembered For Wide Influence, Pragmatic Approach

By Ryan Boysen

The iconoclastic, prolific and hugely influential U.S. Circuit Court Judge Richard A. Posner is being remembered for a lifetime of relentless advocacy for a more pragmatic approach to the law and a legacy that will ripple through American jurisprudence for decades to come.

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Remembering Richard Posner: A Prolific Jurist

Judge Richard Posner died Tuesday at age 87, leaving a legacy as one of the most influential members of the judiciary who never served on the U.S. Supreme Court. Here, Law360 revisits its coverage over the years of the prolific retired Seventh Circuit judge, including interviews with him about his pragmatic approach to the law, his belief that the courts mistreat pro se litigants and his love of felines.

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Foley Revamps Associate Pay, Advancement Structure

By James Boyle

Foley & Lardner LLP is the latest law firm to alter the way it handles associate compensation and advancement to keep in line with Milbank LLP's update of its own associate pay scale in July.

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Weil's 1,000 Staff Face 'Absorption' Issue In Hunt For Roles

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

As the approximately 1,000 professional staff members at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP look for new roles, they're likely to encounter a more difficult job market than the firm's attorneys, recruiters told Law360 Pulse.

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DOJ Exodus Leaves Trump Facing Confirmation Crunch

By Courtney Bublé

Since the Democrats' sweeping victories on Election Day, there has been an exodus of top officials at the U.S. Department of Justice and prospects for confirming permanent replacement are slim.

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The Go-To Firms For Insurance Litigation In 2026

By Hope Patti

A Florida-based law firm filed the most insurance coverage actions in the first half of 2026, primarily representing policyholders in property damage disputes, while BigLaw firm Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani was the most frequent choice among insurer defendants.

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Senate Confirms First Judge Of Lame-Duck Period

By Courtney Bublé

The U.S. Senate confirmed Alabama Supreme Court Justice Gregory Cook to the Northern District of Alabama on Thursday, marking the first judicial confirmation of the lame-duck period.

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Proskauer Won't Rep Perplexity In Reddit Data-Scraping Suit

By Matthew Perlman

Perplexity AI Inc. has abandoned its effort to have Proskauer Rose LLP defend against a data-scraping lawsuit from Reddit Inc. after Reddit raised concerns about the law firm's past representation of the social media company.

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Arbitration Assoc. Wants Consumers' Monopoly Suit Tossed

By Rae Ann Varona

The American Arbitration Association urged an Arizona federal court Thursday to toss a proposed class action that accuses the organization of monopolizing the consumer arbitration services market, saying the plaintiff consumers are trying to hold it liable for contracts it never entered into.

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