7th Circ. Says Ill. BIPA Amendment Applies Retroactively

By Hailey Konnath

The Seventh Circuit held Wednesday that a liability-limiting amendment to Illinois' biometric privacy law applies to every lawsuit pending at the time the amendment took effect, ruling that the amendment is only a procedural change to the law and, therefore, must be applied retroactively.

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DOL, HHS Must Face Unions' Claims In DOGE Data Suit

By Emily Brill

The U.S. Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services must continue facing claims that they illegally gave Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency access to employee records, as a D.C. federal judge denied the agencies' bid to escape the union-brought allegations before the trial phase.

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U. Of Chicago Grad Union Gets Antisemitism Suit Tossed

By Katherine Smith

An Illinois federal judge tossed a nonprofit's lawsuit claiming that University of Chicago graduate students were forced to pay fees to a union that the organization said was antisemitic, finding the disputed fee arrangement isn't considered a state action that falls within the scope of the First Amendment.

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Attys Suing NBA's Suns Sanctioned For Fake Case Citations

By Alex Lawson

An Arizona federal judge has sanctioned two attorneys mounting a workplace harassment and discrimination suit against the NBA's Phoenix Suns, slamming the lawyers for using artificial intelligence to cite fake cases to strengthen their arguments.

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Amazon Beats NY Warehouse Workers' Screening Time Suit

By MJ Koo

A New York federal court has tossed wage claims brought by Amazon warehouse workers who alleged they were not paid for time spent undergoing mandatory security screenings before and after their shifts, finding the state's labor law mirrors federal standards that exempt such activities from compensation.

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Emory, Falcons Escape Ex-Team Doc's Race Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Emory Healthcare and the Atlanta Falcons defeated a Black doctor's lawsuit claiming he was denied leadership opportunities and then abruptly fired as the NFL team's head doctor, with a Georgia federal judge ruling his allegations were too flimsy to stay in court.

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9th Circ. Revives Aya Health Arbitrations In Nurses' Wage Suit

By Ben Adlin

A Ninth Circuit panel Wednesday reversed a district court ruling that voided arbitration agreements between Aya Healthcare Services Inc. and more than 250 employees, ruling that the lower court erred when it used the individual findings of two arbitrators to nix the agreements entirely.

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Analysis

Wheeling & Appealing: April's Most Notable Oral Arguments

By Jeff Overley

April is the coolest month, at least for appellate aficionados, featuring numerous important arguments with famous litigants, including U.S. senators, delivery apps Grubhub and Uber Eats, impresario Sean "Diddy" Combs, prediction platforms Kalshi and Robinhood, and a political giant known as the Velvet Hammer.

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Novo Nordisk Unit Says Ex-Exec's Poor Work Dooms Bias Suit

By Abigail Harrison

By the time she was fired, a finance director of Novo Nordisk unit NNE Inc. had been falling short of company expectations while the pharmaceutical giant was preparing to get a multibillion-dollar drug facility off the ground, NNE's counsel told a North Carolina federal court Wednesday.

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Dunkin' Stores Kept Disabled Staff Off Job, EEOC Says

By Carolyn Muyskens

Fifteen Dunkin' franchisees and their management company have been hit with a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint claiming employees with medical conditions or disabilities are forced to take unpaid leave until they can work without accommodations.

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DHL Axed Worker Over Sickle Cell Disease, EEOC Says

By Patrick Hoff

DHL violated federal disability bias law by firing an employee who asked for a work assignment that wouldn't exacerbate her sickle cell disease, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a Georgia federal court.

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Salvation Army Enrollees Not Employees, Ill. Court Says

By Benjamin Morse

A Salvation Army rehabilitation program's participants are not employees despite working at least 40 hours per week supporting its thrift stores, an Illinois federal judge ruled, finding they did not expect to be paid and were not economically dependent on the nonprofit.

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Defunct Pizza Shop Beats Driver's OT Suit

By Irene Spezzamonte

A Connecticut federal judge has tossed a former pizza delivery driver's suit claiming he worked 100-hour workweeks without overtime, saying the worker didn't show that the now-defunct pizzeria he worked for was a covered enterprise under federal law or that he regularly made interstate deliveries.

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NJ Hospital Workers Win Collective Cert. In OT, Break Suit

By Irene Spezzamonte

A New Jersey healthcare network must face overtime claims on a collective basis, a federal judge ruled, saying a former employee adequately backed up allegations that the network had companywide policies under which it automatically deducted time for meal breaks that weren't taken and left bonuses out of overtime calculations.

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Wage Class Attys Get $254K Fee For Post, Smucker's Deal

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Pennsylvania federal judge has signed off on a just over $254,000 fee request for Winebrake & Santillo LLC attorneys representing employees of Post Consumer Brands LLC and The J.M. Smucker Co. who alleged they were stiffed on overtime wages at a Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, manufacturing facility.

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CFPB Seeks Green Light To Shed Half Of Staff In New Plan

By Jon Hill

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has asked the D.C. Circuit to let it proceed with a new plan to lay off roughly half of its remaining staff, arguing this latest downsizing proposal moots concerns that led to a lower-court injunction freezing efforts to slash its workforce.

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Union, Employer Group Beat NJ Contractor's Benefits Suit

By Emily Brill

A union and a contractors association have beaten back allegations that they coerce employers into making excessive contributions to a union benefit fund, with a New Jersey federal judge tossing a proposed class action filed by a contractor last year.

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Timber Co., State Street Win Initial Toss Of $1.5B Pension Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

A timber company and its independent fiduciary won dismissal of a proposed class action from pensioners who said the companies' choice of annuity provider for a $1.5 billion pension transfer put their retirements at unnecessary risk, after a Washington federal judge ruled that allegations failed to state a claim.

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Brief

CFO Scores $867K Win In Health Device Co. Wage Suit

By Benjamin Morse

A wearable health device company must pay its former chief financial officer nearly $867,000 after a Connecticut federal jury determined it stiffed him on his full wages and benefits, according to court filings.

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Brief

3rd Ex-Staples Employee Sues Over Alleged Data Hack

By Carolyn Muyskens

Staples Inc. was hit Tuesday with its third lawsuit in two weeks over a reported cyberattack by ransomware group CoinbaseCartel that may have exposed employee data.

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Berkshire Must Defend Trulieve In Worker Death Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

An insurance company that is a unit of Berkshire Hathaway had an obligation to defend Trulieve Inc. against a Massachusetts wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a cannabis worker, a Florida federal judge has ruled, rejecting arguments that the worker wasn't an employee.

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Ex-Chick-Fil-A Workers Say Taco Eatery Owes Them Jobs

By Matthew Santoni

Three former Chick-fil-A employees at Philadelphia International Airport say in a proposed class action in Pennsylvania state court that the airport's food services operator and the restaurant that replaced theirs failed to follow a local ordinance requiring that they be offered employment at the new establishment.

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Fisher Phillips Adds Ogletree Employment Ace In Houston

By Lynn LaRowe

Employment law firm Fisher Phillips has boosted its workplace safety and health offerings with a partner in Houston who came aboard from Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC.

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Motorola Case Shows Reach Of NLRA Dishonesty Protections

A recent National Labor Relations Board case, involving a Motorola employee who was terminated for lying about discussing wages, illustrates the broad reach of National Labor Relations Act protections for concerted activity, which may take on new significance as the agency shifts toward more restrained enforcement, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.

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ABA Suit Over Trump's Crackdown On Firms Moves Forward

By Emily Sawicki

A D.C. federal judge has ruled the American Bar Association may pursue a challenge to the Trump administration's series of executive orders targeting law firms, finding the organization plausibly alleged the orders posed a "realistic threat" to its members.

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Khalil Seeks Bove's 3rd Circ. Recusal Over Ex-DOJ Roles

By Lauren Berg

Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful permanent resident targeted for deportation, asked a Third Circuit judge, U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove, to recuse himself from en banc review of a decision allowing for Khalil's detention, saying Wednesday the judge was likely involved in decisions related to the case while at the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Arbitration Association Must Face Suit Over Consumer Monopoly

By Caroline Simson

An Arizona federal judge ruled Tuesday that the American Arbitration Association must face a proposed class action accusing it of monopolizing the consumer arbitration services market, saying the suit provided sufficient allegations to "plausibly infer" that the institution engages in anticompetitive conduct.

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Sidley Beats Malpractice Suit Over Ex-Atty's Tax Scheme

By Chart Riggall

Sidley Austin LLP defeated a suit from a family of business magnates who said they were duped into a tax sheltering scheme by an ex-attorney, after a Georgia federal judge ruled the family should have suspected they were in legal trouble long before they filed their suit.

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Why Trump's Pursuit Of NY AG Is More Than Just 'Awkward'

By Phillip Bantz

Through its relentless pursuit of criminal charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James, the Trump administration has further opened itself up to allegations of vindictive and selective prosecution — with potentially far-reaching implications for a grand jury system that has traditionally given the government the benefit of the doubt, experts say.

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Judiciary Seeks More Security Funding Amid Threat Surge

By Courtney Bublé

Court security is a top concern for the federal judiciary in its recently released budget request for fiscal 2027.

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Trump Announces Texas, Ohio, Florida Judicial Picks

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced four judicial nominees for Texas, Ohio and Florida. 

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Roundup

The Top In-House Hires Of March

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires during the third month of 2026 included high-profile appointments at the NAACP, Walmart and Marriott Vacations. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from March.

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Hub Hires: Reed Smith, Manatt, MoFo, Foley Hoag

By Chris Villani

March provided some madness in the Boston legal scene. Reed Smith launched its first-ever office in the Hub, Manatt hired a former Microsoft executive and Federal Trade Commission member, and Foley Hoag snagged a longtime K&L Gates insurance attorney.

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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

By Bryan Koenig

The Justice Department allowed Live Nation to keep Ticketmaster while state attorneys general continue to sue, a $14 billion Boston Scientific deal drew Federal Trade Commission scrutiny, state enforcers challenged Nexstar's purchase of Tegna, and a threatened FTC challenge forced the abandonment of a laser eye surgery deal.

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