New Jersey Lt. Gov. Resigns After Sex Harassment Claims

By George Woolston

New Jersey Lt. Gov. Dale G. Caldwell has stepped down following an independent investigation conducted by Lowenstein Sandler LLP that determined he sexually harassed a staffer's friend and sent inappropriate text messages, Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced Friday.

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Unions, Feds Settle Suit Over Gov't Shutdown Layoffs

By Katherine Smith

A coalition of labor unions and the U.S. Department of Justice have agreed to settle claims in a dispute challenging the layoffs of federal employees that occurred during the 2025 government shutdown, according to an agreement filed by the parties.

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AI Software Co. Beats Fired Worker's Sex Harassment Suit

By Grace Elletson

A Connecticut federal judge has thrown out a sexual harassment and retaliation suit from an AI healthcare software company ex-worker who said she was sexually assaulted by a colleague at a work event, ruling that an essential filing in the case came too late.

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Mayo Clinic Strikes $50K Deal To End EEOC Vax Bias Suit

By Grace Elletson

The Mayo Clinic will pay $50,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it threatened to fire a Pentecostal Christian security guard if he didn't get vaccinated against COVID-19 despite his religious objections.

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Employment Authority: Justices To Weigh Scrapping Bias Test

By MJ Koo

Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with coverage on two petitions asking the U.S. Supreme Court to scrap the McDonnell Douglas test for evaluating workplace discrimination cases, the end of a nearly 40-year court monitorship of the Teamsters and a new Connecticut law barring cannabis employers from counting tips toward the minimum wage.

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EEOC Says Hyundai Hindering National Origin Bias Probe

By Patrick Hoff

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asked a Georgia federal judge to force a Hyundai subsidiary to fully comply with an agency subpoena related to its probe into allegations that the company showed unlawful preference to Korean workers, arguing the company's incomplete responses have hamstrung the investigation.

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EEOC Says Mich. Logistics Co. Allowed Sexual Harassment

By Melanie Dorsey

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued a Michigan logistics company Friday, alleging that a company executive sexually harassed female employees for years and the company failed to stop his conduct, despite an earlier complaint to human resources.

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EEOC Says Shipbuilder Rejected Veteran Over Disability

By Grace Elletson

A shipbuilding company yanked back an employment offer extended to a veteran job applicant after learning that he is disabled, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims in a suit filed in Florida federal court.

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Electronics Firm, Vax Objector Settle Religious Bias Battle

By Anne Cullen

Colorado-based Arrow Electronics has agreed to pay $200,000 to settle a former employee's claim that the company refused to grant her a religious accommodation for its COVID-19 vaccination policy, the worker's attorneys announced Friday.

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McDonald's Beats Most Of Black Franchisees' Bias Claims

By Dorothy Atkins

An Illinois federal judge on Friday tossed all but a single claim in litigation by former McDonald's franchisees who allege the fast-food giant systematically discriminated against Black operators, while warning plaintiffs that they "pushed — if not crossed" — boundaries by filing a complaint containing "more paragraphs than the Gettysburg Address contained words."

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Dems Press DOD Over Delayed Pay For Trans Troops

By Courtney Bublé

A group of House Democrats is calling on the U.S. Department of Defense to ensure that transgender service members ousted from the military under the Trump administration receive their separation payment.

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Colo. Benihana Operator Hit With Rest-Break Wage Suit

By Benjamin Morse

A Benihana operator in Colorado denied workers required rest breaks and failed to pay them for time spent working through those breaks, according to a proposed class action filed in state court.

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Unpaid Harvard Residence Hall Workers File Wage Action

By Carolyn Muyskens

Residence hall workers at Harvard University launched a proposed class action Friday claiming the university's "bargain" of free housing for unpaid labor violates Massachusetts wage law.

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Apple Hit With Garnishment Order For $1.69M Wage Judgment

By Hayley Fowler

Apple was ordered Friday by a North Carolina federal judge to cease contract payments to an affiliated repair company that has allegedly failed to pony up a $1.69 million judgment in a wage and hour class action.

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NextEra's $9.5M Deal In Wage-Fixing Case Gets Initial OK

By Tom Lotshaw

A Maryland federal judge gave preliminary approval to a settlement agreement that would see NextEra Energy pay $9.5 million to resolve class action allegations it conspired with other nuclear energy producers to fix worker wages.

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Unions Urge 2nd Circ. To Back Reviving Uber, Lyft Driver Law

By Katherine Smith

A group of unions and workers' rights advocates has asked the Second Circuit to lift the block on a municipal ordinance banning Uber and Lyft from kicking drivers out of the app without a formal notice or an investigation, claiming the district court was wrong to stop the law.

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Dems Revive Resolution To Boost Support For Working Moms

By Benjamin Morse

Democratic lawmakers announced Friday that they have reintroduced a resolution calling for expanded paid leave, child care support and other federal policies aimed at helping mothers remain in the workforce and addressing economic disparities facing working moms.

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Aramark Faces Wash. Class Claims Over Noncompete Terms

By Rachel Riley

Aramark has been hit with a proposed class action in Washington state court accusing the food service giant of failing to provide advanced notice to Evergreen State workers of its noncompete terms and restricting them from taking second jobs, in violation of state law.

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Oura Can't Force Ex-CEO's Stock Option Suit To Arbitration

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge Friday refused to make Oura's former CEO arbitrate his claims that the smart-ring maker ousted him and reneged on stock benefits, but tossed his claims that the company breached an employment agreement and an implied covenant to carry out the agreement in good faith.

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Texas Judge Says Perot's VC Firm Can't Be Held To Handshake

By Spencer Brewer

The Texas Business Court threw out a lawsuit brought by a Dallas businessman accusing billionaire Ross Perot Jr. of stiffing him out of his rightful equity interest in a healthcare company that sold for $2 billion, saying the businessman signed an agreement waiving his interest in the company.

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Cold Storage Co. To Pay $5.25M To Settle Data Breach Lawsuit

By Kelcey Caulder

Americold Logistics LLC agreed to pay $5.25 million to settle a pair of proposed class actions alleging that lax cybersecurity at the cold storage giant led to two separate data breaches that impacted nearly 225,000 workers.

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Astrana Health Reveals Spoofing Attack Targeting Private Data

By Allison Grande

An Astrana Health unit was the target of a "series" of social engineering cyberattacks in which hackers impersonated the company's employees to gain access to systems that contained private and confidential information about patients and others, the healthcare provider disclosed in a recent regulatory filing. 

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How To Improve Hiring Transparency Amid Ghost Job Scrutiny

Recent regulatory and state law scrutiny of ghost job postings for roles that don't exist or aren't being filled signals a shift toward hiring transparency, and employers that fail to adapt risk enforcement actions, consumer protection claims and financial penalties, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.

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Senior Lawyers Survey: Tell Us About Your Career

How are senior lawyers adapting to evolving career paths and emerging technologies? Share your perspective in this five-minute survey.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

O'Melveny & Myers LLP and Reed Smith LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit overturned a $140 million class verdict against CenturyLink, holding that the company had a reasonable interpretation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

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Arkansas Firm 5th To Seal PE Deal With Uplift Investors

By Tracey Read

Arkansas' largest personal injury law firm is the latest legal entity to ink a deal to take private equity investment using Uplift Investors' associated management services organization.

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AI Mishap Has Judge Questioning 'Our Collective Character'

By Julie Manganis

A California attorney was barred from representing the plaintiffs in a Massachusetts insurance coverage dispute and ordered to pay legal costs of up to $10,000 to opposing counsel, after a federal judge found he relied on "inaccurate and fictitious" case cites and holdings in three filings.

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Tarter Krinsky Faces Suit After Disclosing Data Breach

By Andrea Keckley

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP maintained "intentional opacity" about a recently disclosed cybersecurity attack last year that may have compromised protected health information, a proposed class action alleged in New York federal court.

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A2J At The High Court: Gun Bans, Voting And Civil Remedies

By Marco Poggio

From the right to own semiautomatic rifles to the rules governing voter registration, the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court term will see the justices tackle a broad swath of constitutional and access to justice issues.

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Domino Foods Fights Paul Weiss DQ Bid In Price-Fixing MDL

By Madison Arnold

Domino Foods is pushing back on an attempt to disqualify its counsel from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP in a sugar price-fixing multidistrict litigation, arguing Hershey, J.M. Smucker and other food makers filed the motion as a "strategic attempt to gain tactical advantage" at a critical point in the dispute.

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Duane Morris To Settle Employee's Tax Withholding Claim

By Asha Glover

Duane Morris LLP has agreed to private mediation to settle a proposed class action by an employee who alleged that the firm failed to withhold taxes for workers who were misclassified as partners, according to a notice.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen Glencore Energy sue a refinery for allegedly defrauding it out of more than $236 million worth of crude oil, the former CEO of ankle-tag maker Big Technologies file a defamation claim against the company, and property investment group Hunter Jones hit by a claim from the Financial Conduct Authority. 

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Wilson Sonsini topped a list of law firms that have alumni attorneys working at six of the country's most prominent tech companies. And general counsel at most large companies expect to increase their litigation budgets next year.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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