DOL Unveils Joint Employer Rule Proposal

By Max Kutner

The U.S. Department of Labor announced its proposed rule Wednesday for clarifying when multiple employers are jointly liable for wage and hour violations.

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Delta Pilots Fail To Get Military Bias Suit Off The Ground

By Hailey Konnath

The Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday affirmed a lower court's decision tossing former Delta Air Lines Inc. pilots' claims that they were forced out of their jobs for taking military leave, ruling the pilots would have been forced out anyway for abusing their sick leave.

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Workers Get 'One More Chance' In General Mills Bias Suit

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal judge Wednesday warned General Mills plant workers claiming they were subjected to racist harassment that they've got one last chance to bring their proposed class action up to his standard before he tosses it for good.

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EEOC 'Delayed Its Own' Antisemitism Probe, Penn Says

By Grace Elletson

The University of Pennsylvania has pushed back on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's implication that it is delaying the agency's probe into antisemitism on campus by seeking a pause of a subpoena's enforcement, saying the EEOC's previous lack of urgency in the case undermines its argument.

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Uber, DoorDash Can't Pause NYC Tip Prompt Laws On Appeal

By Benjamin Morse

Uber and DoorDash cannot temporarily block New York City laws regulating how they display gratuity options as an appeal moves forward, the Second Circuit ruled, finding the companies failed to show that an injunction is warranted.

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Hurricane Maria Aid Workers Can't Pursue FEMA For Wages

By Elaine Briseño

A First Circuit panel said Wednesday that workers for a nonprofit organization that received Federal Emergency Management Agency funds for Hurricane Maria relief efforts cannot sue the federal government for unpaid wages because the agency was not their employer.

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Mich. Firm Gets OK To Boost Sanctions Bid Against Ex-Worker

By Melanie Dorsey

A Michigan-based personal injury law firm can use newly unearthed evidence to bolster its bid to sanction an ex-employee and her former lawyer in her retaliation lawsuit, a federal judge ordered this week.

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MrBeast Executive Fired For Taking Maternity Leave, Suit Says

By Patrick Hoff

YouTuber MrBeast's companies demoted an executive for complaining that women were being sidelined and harassed by male colleagues and then fired her for taking leave after giving birth, the former employee said Wednesday in North Carolina federal court.

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Regional Airline Settles Ex-Pilot's Disability Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

A regional American Airlines subsidiary has resolved a former pilot's lawsuit claiming she was forced to resign because the company denied requests for time off to deal with depression and anxiety exacerbated by intense training exercises, according to Colorado federal court filings.

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NBA Says Court Should Toss Ex-Player's Discrimination Suit

By Elaine Briseño

The NBA on Wednesday urged a New York federal judge to toss the lawsuit of a former player, suing the league for allegedly not accommodating his mental health disability, after he failed to respond to the organization's motion to dismiss.

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Feds Must Give Records On Trans Military Ban, Judge Says

By Ganesh Setty

A Washington federal court has ordered the Trump administration to produce records underlying its decision to bar transgender individuals from serving in the U.S. military, rejecting a distinction the administration carved between trans individuals and individuals with gender dysphoria.

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Logistics Co. Strikes Deal To End Ex-Worker's Age Bias Suit

By Grace Elletson

A logistics company wrapped up a suit Wednesday from a worker who said he was forced to retire in his 70s after his managers refused to train him in a new computer system and ignored his medical accommodation requests, according to a filing in North Carolina federal court.

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NASCAR Claims No Duty To Defend In Sex Harassment Suit

By Susan Smiley

Counsel for NASCAR and Michigan International Speedway told a federal judge in a hearing Wednesday they are not obligated to defend or indemnify an MIS supervisor regarding a sexual harassment suit brought against them by a former security guard.

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Judge Lets Pharma Co. Seal Parts Of Ex-GC's Retaliation Suit

By José Luis Martínez

A Texas state judge on Wednesday granted Houston-based Empower Clinic Services LLC's bid to permanently and partially seal a petition by its former general counsel that alleges a smear campaign by the company after he confronted them about conduct he said was unlawful.

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Yelp Stiffed Calif. Workers On Boot-Up Time, Suit Says

By MJ Koo

Yelp failed to pay hourly workers for the minutes they spent waiting for their work computers to boot up before they could clock in for each shift, a former worker alleged in a proposed class action in California state court.

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Frontier Pays Flight Attendants Only While In Air, Suit Says

By MJ Koo

Frontier Airlines underpaid flight attendants by compensating them only for time spent in the air while requiring hours of unpaid work before and after each flight, according to a proposed class action filed in New Jersey federal court.

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LinkSquares Settles Sales Reps' OT Suit On 1st Day Of Trial

By Carolyn Muyskens

Legal tech company LinkSquares Inc. and inside sales representatives who claimed they were misclassified as overtime-exempt reached a settlement to avoid a jury trial that was set to begin in Boston federal court Tuesday.

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Va. Lawmakers Enact Updated Family Leave Program

By Grace Elletson

Virginia's Legislature greenlighted a law Wednesday that will allow workers to take paid family and medical leave through a statewide insurance program, approving Gov. Abigail Spanberger's proposed changes.

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NJ Co. Presses 3rd Circ. To Nix Hudson Tunnel Project PLA

By Tom Lotshaw

A New Jersey company has urged the Third Circuit to scrap a project labor agreement the Gateway Development Commission entered for the Hudson Tunnel Project, claiming the agreement unlawfully blocked it and its United Steelworkers employees from vying for a major segment of the project.

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4th Circ. Won't Rehear Spat Over DOGE's Agency Data Access

By Abigail Harrison

The Fourth Circuit has declined to reconsider a split panel's decision to vacate an injunction that blocked the Department of Government Efficiency's access to personal information held by three federal agencies.

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Feds Urge 9th Circ. To Lift Block On Calif. Border Patrol Sweeps

By Dorothy Atkins

The government urged the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday to lift an injunction barring Border Patrol from warrantless arrests and detentive stops without probable cause and reasonable suspicion, arguing that the plaintiffs lack standing, because they have "no good basis to believe they themselves will be subject to future unlawful stops."

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Commure Took Health Co.'s Software Trade Secrets, Suit Says

By Elliot Weld

A San Diego-based healthcare technology services company has accused Commure Inc. of stealing trade secrets to launch competing cloud-based software, framing the alleged conduct as an instance of a large company "backed by big money" breaking the rules to obtain a much smaller competitor's information.

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Entegris Says Ex-Engineer Used Its Tech To Start Rival Firm

By Julie Manganis

Tech company Entegris says a former lead engineer secretly founded his own competing firm by stealing trade secrets and has been soliciting its customers, including Intel, to bring their business to his startup, according to a suit in Massachusetts state court.

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Chancery Sends Masimo Ex-CEO Pay Fight To California

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court sided with former Masimo Corp. CEO Joe E. Kiani in his fight with the global medical technology company, dismissing the company's lawsuit over a disputed $450 million severance package and ruling that the case must proceed in California, not Delaware.

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High Court Revives Military Vet's Injury Claims

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Fluor Corp. can be held liable for a veteran's state-based injury claims stemming from a 2016 suicide bombing in Afghanistan, saying his claims are not preempted by the Federal Tort Claims Act.

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Insurer Freed From Roofing Contractor's Wrongful Death Suit

By Mark Payne

An insurer for a roofing company owes no coverage for a wrongful death suit brought by the estate of a contractor who suffered a fatal fall on the job, a Kentucky federal court ruled, saying that the contractor was technically an employee and excluded under the insurance policy.

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What Employers Should Know About Wash. Noncompete Ban

Washington state recently passed one of the most expansive prohibitions on noncompetes in the country, marking a significant shift in the state's approach to restrictive covenants and requiring employers to carefully assess how this change will affect their current and future agreements, say attorneys at Cozen.

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Cos. Must Update Protocols To Protect Trade Secrets From AI

A recent data exposure incident at Meta shows how artificial intelligence agents present a novel trade secret threat, which should be addressed by a proactive overhaul of companies' reasonable-measures framework, says Eric Ostroff at Meland Budwick.

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How College Sports EO Raises Stakes, Casts Uncertainty

The effectiveness of President Donald Trump's recent executive order urging national action to "save" college sports depends on NCAA implementation and judicial tolerance, neither of which is certain, so college athletics will remain governed by an unstable balance between executive pressure and judicial authority until Congress acts, say attorneys at Manatt.

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Law School's Missed Lessons: How To Draft Pleadings

Most law school graduates step into their first jobs without ever having drafted a complaint, answer, motion or other type of pleading, but that gap can be closed by understanding the strategy embedded in every filing, writing with clarity and purpose, and seeking feedback at every step, says Eric Yakaitis at Haug Barron.

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The 2026 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey: Where Do You Stand?

How is your work-life balance? Are you content with your compensation and opportunities for advancement at work? Take the 2026 Law360 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey and share your thoughts.

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Bar Complaint Calls Out EEOC Chair's Law Firm DEI Letters

By Grace Elletson

A legal advocacy group asked the Virginia State Bar to investigate whether U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Andrea Lucas violated ethics rules by declining to investigate LGBTQ bias complaints and sending letters demanding information from law firms on their diversity, equity and inclusion practices.

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'Cheap' Judge OKs $19.5M Snap Deal Fees But 'No Bentleys'

By Craig Clough

After warning counsel who negotiated a $65 million securities settlement with Snap that he is "notoriously cheap," and in a tentative order gave a "haircut" to their $19.5 million fee request, a California federal judge talked himself out of the trim at a hearing Thursday but quipped, "No Bentleys."

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Another 'Inventing Anna' Attorney Gets Disbarred

By Emily Sawicki

A New York state appeals court has accepted the resignation of a New York City attorney amid a misconduct investigation, reportedly leaving high-profile socialite scammer Anna Sorokin without legal counsel while facing fee claims from her former lawyer, according to a Thursday notice by opposing counsel.

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DOJ Watchdog To Review Handling Of Epstein Files

By Courtney Bublé

The U.S. Department of Justice watchdog announced Thursday that it will be reviewing the department's release of the Epstein files after much bipartisan pushback that it has been slow and error-ridden.

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Ex-DA's Defamation Claims Tied To Menendez Work Risk Toss

By Rae Ann Varona

A Los Angeles County prosecutor-turned-public defender fought uphill Thursday to pursue defamation claims against a former colleague who criticized her advocacy for the release of Erik and Lyle Menendez, with a California state court judge saying that alleged comments like calling the attorney a "quisling" — or traitor — were nonactionable opinions.

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ICE Courthouse Arrest Policy Faces New Stay Bid After Error

By Adrian Cruz

Civil rights groups suing the U.S. government to block immigration courthouse arrests asked a New York federal judge to stay the enforcement of the arrest policy, arguing that government attorneys have retracted their original position on the legality of the arrests.

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Immigration Board Says Judge Glossed Over Inconsistencies

By Tom Lotshaw

An immigration judge failed to address and explain inconsistencies before finding a Cameroonian man credible and granting him withholding of removal protection, the Board of Immigration Appeals said in a decision designated as precedential.

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