9th Circ. Sides With NLRB In Wash. Terminal Union Work Fight

By Rachel Riley

The full Ninth Circuit Thursday backed the National Labor Relations Board's decision in a union battle for work on a Seattle marine cargo terminal, ruling the International Longshore and Warehouse Union can't use the "work-preservation defense" to defeat accusations that it illegally pressured an employer for disputed work.

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United Gets Flight Attendant's Sex Harassment Suit Narrowed

By Patrick Hoff

A Colorado federal judge trimmed but refused to completely toss a flight attendant's lawsuit claiming United Airlines failed to prevent a former pilot from stalking and distributing intimate images of her without her consent, saying she plausibly alleged the airline was slow to act after being contacted by the police.

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LSU Gets Damages Sliced In Attys' Pay Bias Suit

By MJ Koo

A Louisiana federal judge has slashed the damages awarded to two former in-house attorneys who won a retaliation verdict against their university employer over gender pay equity complaints, cutting each award from $750,000 to $280,000 while rejecting bids for a new trial or outright dismissal.

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Facebook Whistleblower Fights For Right To Promote Memoir

By Bonnie Eslinger

An ex-Facebook executive who wrote a whistleblower memoir urged a California federal judge Thursday to toss a preliminary arbitration decision blocking her from promoting the book or disparaging Meta, while the company countered that she agreed to resolve such disputes by arbitration when she accepted a $780,000 payout.

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Jay-Z Appeals Buzbee Win In Rapper's Defamation Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Music mogul Jay-Z's counsel fought uphill Thursday to convince a California state appeals court to revive claims that Texas attorney Tony Buzbee defamed and extorted him by roping him into a sexual abuse suit against Sean "Diddy" Combs, arguing in court that a trial court erroneously read evidence in Buzbee's favor.

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TikTok's Ex-Legal Head Made Racist Comments, Suit Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

TikTok and its former head of global legal operations have been accused in a California state court lawsuit of harassment and discrimination based on race and sex by a former legal department employee who claims the executive subjected her and other nonwhite colleagues to an "unrelenting campaign of harassment."

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Johns Hopkins Hit With Sex Discrimination, Retaliation Suit

By Gianna Ferrarin

Johns Hopkins University was hit with a complaint in California federal court alleging it impaired a graduate student's educational access and retaliated against her after she returned from a pregnancy-related leave and accused her former adviser of sexual misconduct.

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NJ Town CFO Says Retaliation Followed Cancer Disclosure

By George Woolston

The chief financial officer for a Garden State municipality alleged in New Jersey state court that her job duties were diminished in retaliation for her reporting improper cash handling and requesting time off to undergo cancer treatment.

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Elevance Health Gets Final OK On $14.75M Nurse OT Deal

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Virginia federal court granted final approval Thursday to a $14.75 million global settlement resolving five related suits against Elevance Health by nurses who accused the insurer of misclassifying them as exempt from overtime pay.

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Sephora Denied Wash. Workers Breaks, Class Action Says

By Rachel Riley

Sephora is facing a proposed class action from a former employee who claims the beauty retailer deprived Washington state workers of legally required meal and rest periods and failed to compensate them for missed breaks.

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Wash. Judge Trims Claims In Construction Wage Suit

By Katherine Smith

A Washington federal judge has narrowed a carpenter apprentice's amended complaint alleging that a Seattle construction company shorted employees on wages for off-the-clock work, ruling that the claims involving missed rest and meal breaks were preempted by federal law.

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Cannabis Co. Fights Class Status In Tipped Wages Suit

By Celeste Bott

Cannabis dispensary company Curaleaf Holdings urged an Illinois federal court Tuesday not to allow workers to proceed as a class and collective with their tipped wages claims, saying its tip practices didn't stem from a common corporate policy but rather a patchwork of "legacy practices inherited through serial acquisitions, varying by state, store, manager, and time."

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Smoke Shop Chain Misclassified Workers, Owes OT, Suit Says

By Jonathan Capriel

A chain of Houston-area smokeshops and their owners allegedly misclassified their employees as independent contractors to avoid paying overtime, according to a worker-led lawsuit filed in Texas federal court seeking unpaid wages for similar employees.

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Guard Says Security Co. Denies Pay For Preshift Work

By MJ Koo

A Colorado security guard has sued his employer in federal court, alleging the company denies him and hundreds of other guards pay for preshift work, interrupts meal and rest breaks and contacts workers off the clock.

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Colo. County's Union-Law Suit Tossed Over Lack Of Standing

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado federal judge dismissed a county board of commissioners' complaint Thursday for lack of standing after finding that the county sought prospective relief only from a state law expanding county employees' right to unionize and that the county failed to allege any potential injury.

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Ex-Immigration Officer To Admit Embezzling $60K From Union

By Julie Manganis

The former treasurer of a federal workers' union local has agreed to plead guilty to embezzling more than $60,000 to pay for expenses ranging from food and utility bills to dance lessons, the U.S. attorney's office in Massachusetts announced Thursday.

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Coal Co. Loses 4th Circ. Challenge To Black Lung Benefits

By Carla Baranauckas

The Fourth Circuit on Thursday upheld a Black Lung Benefits Act award to a former underground electrician, finding that an administrative law judge reasonably relied on two medical experts who linked his chronic lung problems to nearly 12 years of coal mine work.

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Managing OSHA Mental Illness Logs After 5th Circ. Vacatur

Employers with facilities in multiple states need to carefully weigh their recordkeeping procedures following the Fifth Circuit’s recent decision that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration cannot require employers to log work-related mental illness, as inconsistent logs across facilities may raise other issues, say attorneys at Haynes Boone.

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Monitor Exposure, Stay Flexible Amid Tariff Uncertainty

To navigate an unstable trade environment, businesses must evaluate their exposure to new tariffs invoked under a patchwork of statutory authorities and be prepared to adapt to further changes that may be on the horizon, says Bhargav Prajapati at Capital Trade.

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Mitigating The Risk Of Antiestablishment Jurors

The legal battles currently embroiling social media companies underscore that jurors with anti-corporate bias and conspiratorial thinking patterns pose myriad risks to corporate defendants, and defense counsel should adapt their trial strategies accordingly, say consultants at Persuasion Strategies.

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Being In A Band Made Me A Better Lawyer

Playing shows in storied New York City venues and rehearsing with my bandmates in poorly ventilated rooms helped develop the professional qualities I rely on as a litigator, including an ability to collaborate with strong-minded equals and the determination to treat each client with singular focus, says Eliad Shapiro at Herrick Feinstein.

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How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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Meta Atty 'Absolutely Wrong' On Client Privilege, Judge Warns

By Dorothy Atkins

With trial dark Thursday due to juror illness, a California judge overseeing states' claims that Meta Platforms Inc. hid social media's harms heard arguments over evidence, at one point criticizing Meta's efforts to assert attorney-client privilege and calling the company's in-house lawyer "absolutely wrong" about the appropriate standard.

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Uber Gets Greenlight On Most Fraud Claims Against LA Firms

By Hailey Konnath

A California federal judge Wednesday largely rejected two Los Angeles personal injury firms' attempts to ditch Uber's suit claiming it's being targeted by a scheme involving fraudulent personal injury claims, finding Uber has plausibly alleged that the firms schemed with a surgeon to rack up medical costs.

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Trump Taps DOJ Official, ND Solicitor General For Judgeships

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced Thursday he's tapping Jesus Osete, a top U.S. Department of Justice official, to serve on the Western District of Missouri and Philip Axt, solicitor general of North Dakota, for the District of North Dakota.

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CREXi Drops 9th Circ. Challenge To Quinn Emanuel DQ

By Isaac Monterose

Property listing company Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc. has moved to dismiss its own Ninth Circuit mandamus petition, which challenged a lower court's disqualification of CREXi's counsel, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, from a legal battle against rival CoStar.

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Eastman Among 16 Calif. Attys Disbarred In Q2 2026

By Emily Sawicki

The State Bar of California removed the licenses of 16 attorneys between April and June of this year over a broad spectrum of ethical breaches ranging from the high-profile case of John Eastman attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, to a lawyer found to be in possession of child sex abuse images.

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