NLRB Ops Chief Details Streamlining Plan As Backlog Mounts

By Braden Campbell

The National Labor Relations Board is taking steps to clear through its more than 16,000 pending cases, including bolstering its staff and spreading the pile across its operation, the official who oversees the agency's regional offices told an American Bar Association conference Tuesday.

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Judge Says Accounts Of DOJ And FEMA 'Completely Different'

By Rachel Riley

A California federal judge overseeing a lawsuit by federal worker unions, local governments and nonprofits challenging Trump administration layoffs expressed deep frustration Tuesday after a U.S. Department of Justice attorney contradicted a senior Federal Emergency Management Agency official's sworn declaration in the case.

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Inova Defeats Nurses' COVID Vax Bias Suits At 4th Circ.

By Grace Elletson

The Fourth Circuit refused Tuesday to revive suits from nurse anesthetists who said they faced religious and disability discrimination when they were fired for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19, ruling that nonprofit healthcare provider Inova wasn't their employer.

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McDermott Must Trim 'Vastly Overbroad' Subpoena In Atty Suit

By Anne Cullen

A Black attorney who is suing McDermott Will & Schulte LLP for racial bias secured a court order Tuesday quashing the law firm's subpoena for some of her previous employment records, as a federal judge called the request "vastly overbroad" and directed the firm to narrow it.

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Ye's Ex-Worker 'Not Sure' Of Own Declaration In Wages Trial

By Rae Ann Varona

A construction project manager suing Ye for retaliation and unpaid wages after he was fired from working at the rapper's Malibu home testified in a Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday that he's "not sure" if someone else signed a declaration filed under his name in the case.

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6th Circ. Says Fired Opera Singer's UMich Suit Came Too Late

By Carolyn Muyskens

The Sixth Circuit declined Tuesday to revive a lawsuit against the University of Michigan claiming the school unfairly sacked a star opera singer after allegations surfaced that he and his husband had sexually assaulted another singer years before.

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Commanders Settle With DC AG Over Workplace Allegations

By Jared Foretek

The Washington Commanders will pay $1 million to settle a 2022 lawsuit from the Washington, D.C., attorney general alleging that the team violated the city's consumer protection laws when it misled residents about its internal investigation into sexual assault claims under former owner Dan Snyder.

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Cruz Fights Subpoena Review In Stone Hilton Employee's Suit

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has opposed the request of a former Stone Hilton PLLC staffer for a federal court to reconsider subpoenaing him in an ongoing employment lawsuit against two of the firm's partners.

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Housing Worker Blocked From Reinstating Claims After Trial

By Hayley Fowler

A former coordinator for Charlotte's public housing authority can't reinstate retaliation and punitive damages claims that were thrown out before her hostile work environment trial, a North Carolina federal judge ruled, saying that the motion was misguided and that she could have uncovered the supposedly new evidence beforehand.

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Texas Eatery's 'Fatal' Shortfall Advances Servers' Tip Case

By José Luis Martínez

A Texas federal judge ruled Tuesday that a Fort Worth restaurant illegally took a $1-per-shift fee directly from every server's tips and failed to show the tip pool was distributed solely among eligible employees, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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Kroger Misclassified E-Commerce Managers, Wash. Suit Says

By Benjamin Morse

Kroger misclassified e-commerce managers as executives exempt from overtime even though they did not meet the legal requirements under federal and state wage law, according to a proposed collective action filed in Washington federal court.

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NC Guards' Pay Starts At Prison Entry, Judge Says

By Benjamin Morse

North Carolina correctional officers are entitled to compensation under federal wage law for time spent inside prison facilities before and after their scheduled shifts, a federal judge ruled, granting a win to a class and collective accusing the state of violating said law.

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3rd Circ. Upholds Dismissal Of $800K Union Pension Suit

By Emily Brill

A split Third Circuit panel said Tuesday it won't revive allegations that two companies owe about $800,000 to a union pension fund, ruling that a New Jersey federal judge properly tossed the claim because the fund waited eight years to tell the companies they owed the money.

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Union Fund Drops Boston Globe Pension Dispute

By Katherine Smith

A union pension fund has dropped its lawsuit alleging that the Boston Globe failed to pay monthly contributions and provide records of the hours its employees worked, according to a filing in D.C. federal court.

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Ex-Raven Says NFL Players Union Abandoned His Injury Case

By David Steele

The NFL Players Association delayed and then dropped an injury grievance against the Baltimore Ravens without the permission of the player filing the grievance, according to a lawsuit against the union in Texas state court.

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Metrc Gets Partial Win In Ex-VP Termination Contract Suit

By Mike Curley

A Florida federal judge on Tuesday handed cannabis tracking company Metrc Inc. a win on two claims in its contract breach suit against a former executive vice president, saying there's no dispute that he violated the terms of his employment agreement after he was terminated.

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Payroll Co.'s Poaching Suit Can Proceed, Ga. Judge Says

By Chart Riggall

Enterprise software firm invenioLSI must face a suit from a rival company alleging it conspired to engineer a "mass defection" of workers in 2024, after a Georgia federal judge ruled that it "did not have a legal right" to aid in a plan that led to several high-level managers' defections.

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New Whistleblower Program Adds 'Bit More Stick,' DOJ Says

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division's new whistleblower rewards program partnership with the U.S. Postal Service doesn't displace the leniency program by which companies disclose potential price-fixing and other antitrust violations, a DOJ official said Tuesday in Washington, D.C., but it is an important complement.

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Philadelphia Nonprofit Sued Over Employee Info Hack

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The Philadelphia Corporation for Aging has been hit with privacy claims by a prospective class of employees alleging the nonprofit's failure to properly safeguard their confidential information might have led to it being stolen by cybercriminals during a data breach in July.

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NC Town Must Face Firefighter's Retaliation, Free Speech Suit

By Abigail Harrison

A former part-time fire chief who accused a North Carolina town of terminating him after he sought to improve firefighter pay and benefits can proceed with his retaliation lawsuit, as a North Carolina federal court said it's too early to know if his ex-employer is immune from the suit.

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What Employers Should Know About Calif. PAGA Proposal

Recently proposed regulations concerning the Private Attorneys General Act evidence an intent by California's Labor and Workforce Development Agency to play a greater role in the prosecution of PAGA actions, including more oversight over the exhaustion notices and settlement process, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.

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Aligning Microsoft Tools With NYC Bar AI Recording Guidance

The New York City Bar Association’s recently issued formal opinion, providing ethical guidance on artificial intelligence-assisted recording, transcription and summarization, raises immediate questions about data governance and e-discovery for companies that use Microsoft 365 and Copilot, say Staci Kaliner, Martin Tully and John Collins at Redgrave.

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Judge Questions DOJ Stance In ABA's Intimidation Suit

By Jared Foretek

A Susman Godfrey LLP attorney told a district judge that the Trump administration's recent double-reversal on its executive orders targeting law firms proved that attorneys fighting government action face a real and ongoing threat and urged the judge not to toss a suit from his client, the American Bar Association, to end the "Intimidation Policy."

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DOJ Seeks Power To Block State Bar Probes Of Agency Attys

By Jake Maher

The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to pause and review state-level ethics complaints against its attorneys to combat what the agency called "weaponization" of ethics processes, a proposal that drew concerns from ethics scholars for overstepping states' authorities.

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Analysis

Wheeling & Appealing: The Latest Must-Know Appellate Action

By Jeff Overley

If this month's circuit calendars were a March Madness bracket, we'd struggle to pick the top-seeded showdown. Big Pharma against the False Claims Act, or big business against President Donald Trump's visa fees? A big bank's view of "human life wagers," or en banc review in a State Farm class action?

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Bondi Subpoenaed To Testify On DOJ's Epstein Investigation

By Lauren Berg

The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday voted to subpoena U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify about the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation into deceased child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with five Republicans joining their Democratic colleagues to compel Bondi's testimony.

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Analysis

Trump's FCA Expansion Plan Heightens Compliance Risk

By Sarah Jarvis

In light of the Trump administration's record False Claims Act enforcement haul, companies should be especially mindful of a planned expansion in the scope of enforcement and the false compliance certification risks that may bring, attorneys say.

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SEC, PCAOB Auditor Enforcement Plummeted In 2025

By Sarah Jarvis

Both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board saw decreases in accounting and auditing enforcement activity in 2025, including sharp decreases in SEC settlements and PCAOB fines for auditing actions.

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Comey, James Urge 4th Circ. To Reject Indictment Revival Bid

By Emily Sawicki

Former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James have urged the Fourth Circuit not to revive criminal indictments filed against them last year in the Eastern District of Virginia, arguing they were fatally flawed because they were brought by a federal prosecutor who was not lawfully in that position.

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Appeals Panel Debates NJ's Duty In Prosecutor Ethics Case

By George Woolston

A New Jersey appellate panel on Wednesday weighed whether it was in the state's best interest to represent an assistant prosecutor in an ethics proceeding, questioning how a prosecutor is different from any other attorney called before the disciplinary board.

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