'You're Not Ready': Judge Warns Tesla, Agency Of Sanctions
By Dorothy Atkins
A California state judge presiding over the California Civil Rights Department's lawsuit alleging Tesla fostered racism at its Fremont factory admonished both parties Friday for violating orders and being unprepared for an upcoming bench trial, telling counsel, "Frankly I'm ready to start lobbing sanctions against every person in this room."
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Employment Authority: NLRB Poised For Precedent Shift
Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with coverage on how the Senate's confirmation of a third Republican member gives the National Labor Relations Board a cemented majority poised to move quickly on overturning President Joe Biden-era precedent, and how a year after the California Supreme Court's Hohenshelt ruling, employers still face uncertainty over what counts as a willful or grossly negligent late arbitration fee payment.
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DISCRIMINATION
Disney Beats Ex-ESPN Worker's COVID Vaccine Suit, For Now
By Aaron Keller
A Connecticut federal judge on Friday dismissed a former ESPN remote video operator's lawsuit claiming the company's COVID-19 booster requirement violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and breached his employment contract, determining the worker failed to plausibly allege ESPN or its majority owner, Disney, were entangled with the government.
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BENEFITS
WORKER SAFETY
WRONGFUL TERMINATION
EXPERT ANALYSIS
LEGAL INDUSTRY
NYCBA Cautions Against Recording Nonclient Calls
By Emily Sawicki
New York City attorneys who have been granted permission may ethically use artificial intelligence to record, transcribe and summarize conversations with nonclients, according to the latest ethics guidance by the New York City Bar Association Monday, which added that just because they can doesn't mean they should.
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