High Court Won't Wade Into Fight Over CBA Leave Provision

By Kellie Mejdrich

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned down a Minnesota teachers union local's bid for review of an Eighth Circuit decision that revived a taxpayer challenge to a collective bargaining agreement's policy letting workers take paid time off to work for their union.

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Can Unread Emails Trigger Arbitration? 9th Circ. Airs Doubts

By Jeff Overley

Medical supplies giant Thermo Fisher Scientific pressed a Ninth Circuit panel Monday to agree that the company's repeated emails about litigation waivers should send an ex-employee's proposed class action to arbitration, but the judges repeatedly questioned why no one simply asked if the worker saw the emails.

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Workday Can't Knock Calif. Law Claims Out Of AI Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Workday can't cut California law claims from a proposed class action alleging its artificial intelligence tools discriminated against job applicants, as a federal judge ruled Monday that the company's Golden State headquarters provided a solid enough foundation for the state-based allegations.

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EEOC Escapes Miami Supervisor's Retaliation Lawsuit

By Patrick Hoff

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission defeated a supervisor's lawsuit alleging her performance rating was unlawfully lowered because she refused to alter evaluations of other workers and complained about a district director, with a Florida federal judge finding her actions weren't protected by civil rights law.

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Uber Must Produce Docs In Cal/OSHA Probe Of Driver's Death

By Y. Peter Kang

A California appeals court has ordered Uber to comply with a state workplace safety agency's request for information regarding an Uber Eats driver's fatal fall, ruling the agency was acting within its authority and can demand records regarding whether the worker could be considered an employee.

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10th Circ. Says Fire Chief Immune From Termination Suit

By Katherine Smith

A district court erred in denying a Colorado fire chief qualified immunity in a former union president's lawsuit alleging he was unlawfully terminated, the Tenth Circuit ruled Monday, finding that the former president failed to show the chief's actions violated "clearly established law."

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EV Charging Co. Ends Fired Worker's Religious Bias Suit

By Grace Elletson

An electric vehicle charging station company and a former employee have agreed to end his religious discrimination suit filed in Georgia federal court claiming the business fired him for leaving work early so that he could observe the Jewish Sabbath.

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NJ Prosecutor Improperly Shared Meeting Video, Cop Says

By George Woolston

The Hunterdon County Prosecutor's Office improperly shared a video of a meeting with its investigators about a now-suspended police officer's gender discrimination and internal affairs complaints against her department, according to a lawsuit filed in New Jersey state court.

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Ex-NJ Judge's Femininity Bias Fight Ends After Settlement

By Carla Baranauckas

A former New Jersey state judge who alleged that court administrators discriminated against her because of her upscale clothing and accessories has settled her federal civil rights lawsuit against court officials.

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Airline Trade Group Beats Bid To End Mich. Sick Leave Suit

By MJ Koo

A federal judge allowed a national airline trade group's challenge to Michigan's earned sick leave law to move forward Monday in a Michigan federal court, finding the group plausibly alleged the law is preempted by a federal aviation deregulation statute.

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Energy Co., Worker Settle Overtime Misclassification Suit

By MJ Koo

A Georgia energy company and a former technician reached a settlement Monday in a Georgia federal court in a proposed collective action alleging the company misclassified maintenance workers as independent contractors to avoid paying overtime.

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Stop & Shop Accused Of Flouting Mass. Pay Rule

By Julie Manganis

A former Stop & Shop employee says the supermarket chain is violating the Massachusetts Wage Act by failing to give terminated workers all owed pay on their final day of employment, according to a proposed class action filed in state court.

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Ex-CEO Says Credit Union Can't Seek $80K For Business Unit

By Aaron Keller

The ex-CEO of Sound Federal Credit Union asked a Connecticut state judge on Monday to dismiss portions of the credit union's two counterclaims asking him to return $80,000 for services he didn't perform because he was fired, saying it was not the correct party to bring such counterclaims.

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Fire Chiefs Must Face Union President's Retaliation Claims

By Emily Brill

Two men who served as fire chief in the city of High Point, North Carolina, must face a firefighter's claims that they retaliated against him for speaking up about workplace issues in his capacity as union president, a North Carolina federal judge ruled, denying the men's motion for summary judgment.

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Mich. Appeals Court Affirms $3M Award In Equity Dispute

By Susan Smiley

The Michigan Court of Appeals upheld a $3 million award to a former employee of a wealth management company, saying Monday that enough evidence supported a jury's finding that CIG Capital Advisors deliberately misled the plaintiff about his ownership status and diverted revenue to hide profits.

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Home Depot Worker Seeks Class Of 21K In Moonlighting Suit

By Ben Adlin

A Home Depot employee called on a Seattle federal judge to certify a class of more than 21,000 current and former low-income workers whom the home improvement store chain allegedly barred from working additional jobs in violation of Washington state law.

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Boston Beer Settles With 2 Ex-Workers Over Noncompete

By Julie Manganis

Two former Boston Beer Co. sales representatives who sued the company over noncompete agreements have reached a settlement with the Sam Adams brewer, according to a Monday order.

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Contractor Says Ex-VP Used Secrets To Divert FAA Work

By Elaine Briseño

An information technology contractor accused its former vice president and his new company of scheming to recruit employees, steal trade secrets and withhold critical information to sabotage the company's Federal Aviation Administration data analytics contract.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled disputes involving executive compensation, take-private transactions, books and records demands, tender offers and alleged insider misconduct.

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Fluor Says Trafficking Claims Were Public Before FCA Action

By Ganesh Setty

Fluor Corp. is urging a D.C. federal court to not let a former federal prosecutor pursue a newly amended False Claims Act lawsuit accusing it of labor trafficking under a military logistics contract in Afghanistan, arguing his lawsuit alleges nothing new.

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Atty's Bid To Void Wrongful Firing Award Revived

By David Minsky

A Florida appellate court revived an attorney's attempt to invalidate a nearly $353,000 award handed to a former employee in her wrongful termination case, ruling that the lawyer was entitled to challenge the judgment without satisfying the stay requirements under the state's Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act. 

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California Antitrust Bill Raises New Risks For Dealmakers

A pending California bill would turn the state attorney general's office into a more powerful antitrust enforcer, introducing a host of implications for dealmakers beyond whether deals close, such as deal certainty and risk allocation, say attorneys at Baker Botts.

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LA Superior Court Gains Prominence With 'Nuclear' Verdicts

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Los Angeles County Superior Court was among the country's top sites for awarding big civil damages in recent years, according to a Lex Machina report.

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Office Snapshot: Summer Brings Move For Lathrop GPM In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Lathrop GPM LLP is set to move its office in the nation's capital this summer, leaving the Watergate complex near George Washington University for a smaller space in a building just blocks from the White House.

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The 2026 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey

Lawyers are generally happy being lawyers, but nonequity partners and associates told Law360 Pulse that several aspects of their job leave them feeling dissatisfied. Explore our analysis of these and other findings in the 2026 Law360 Lawyer Satisfaction survey.

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Texas, DOJ Get Judge To End Biden Immigration Rule In 1 Day

By Ganesh Setty

A Texas federal court has approved a deal between Texas and the Trump administration to vacate a Biden-era rule allowing immigration courts to temporarily close cases, the same day Texas filed a lawsuit alleging the policy had created a "de facto amnesty program."

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Clifford Chance Adds Ex-V&E Debt Finance Atty In Houston

By Matt Perez

Clifford Chance LLP announced on Monday the hiring of a former Vinson & Elkins LLP attorney as a finance and derivatives partner in its Houston office.

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NY Rule Rewrite Drops 30-Day Pause For Atty Soliciting

By Emily Sawicki

New York's Appellate Division has adopted new rules of professional conduct on attorney advertising and solicitation, deleting a ban on soliciting clients less than 30 days after an incident.

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NC Becomes First State To Ban Outside Funding Of Civil Suits

By Hayley Fowler

North Carolina has become the first state in the country to ban outside investors from funding civil litigation, after Democratic Gov. Josh Stein signed into law a bill that outlaws third parties from footing the bill for civil suits in exchange for a cut of the payout at the finish line.

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Judge Who Denied Goldstein Retrial Says It Wasn't Close Case

By Rachel Rippetoe

A Maryland federal judge has elaborated on her decision to deny SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein's bid for an acquittal or new trial, saying that the evidence presented at trial either supersedes or invalidates his claims of issues with jury instructions and insufficient or excluded evidence.

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Judicial Noms Still Say Biden Won In 2020 — Technically

By Courtney Bublé

A group of judicial nominees, who earlier this month were the first of the Trump administration's nominees to say President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, reiterated in follow-up statements that Biden won the election "as a matter of law" — doubling down on what critics say is an equivocation on the election's outcome.

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Judge Allows Brazil To Join Trump Suit Against Justice

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge on Tuesday allowed Brazil to intervene in a suit by President Donald Trump's media company and online video-sharing platform Rumble Inc. against a Brazilian Supreme Federal Court justice's gag orders but deferred ruling on Brazil's motion to dismiss the suit.

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