Justices Seem Open To Colo. Catholic Schools' Bias Claims

By Vin Gurrieri

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared receptive Tuesday to a push by Catholic parishes to be exempted from a requirement under Colorado's universal preschool program that ties funding to the acceptance of a nondiscrimination mandate, with Justice Brett Kavanaugh saying the case poses a "clash" between religious and LGBTQ+ rights.

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Calif. Justices Unsure If 'Headless' PAGA Claims Are OK

By Max Kutner

The California Supreme Court did not appear to fully indicate which way it was leaning Tuesday in a case dealing with whether workers can bring what are known as headless claims under the state's Private Attorneys General Act, meaning claims only on behalf of other workers and not themselves.

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Lockheed To Pay $29.5M Over Alleged DEI Bias Practices

By Craig Clough

Lockheed Martin Corp. agreed to pay $29.5 million under two settlements announced Monday by the U.S. Department of Justice over allegations that the defense contractor considered race or sex in some pay, hiring and promotion decisions while certifying compliance with federal antidiscrimination requirements

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1st Circ. Won't Revive Sex Bias Suit Against Benefits Co.

By Patrick Hoff

The First Circuit refused to reinstate a lawsuit from a data architect who said a health benefits company fired her because she's a woman, saying she hadn't alleged that colleagues responsible for "stray" sexist comments played a role in her termination.

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Indiana Targeted Unionized Teachers' Speech, 7th Circ. Says

By Katherine Smith

The Seventh Circuit upheld a federal judge's decision to block two Indiana state laws changing how teachers authorize unions to receive a portion of their wages, finding that the laws violated the First Amendment by specifically targeting teachers who wanted to join a union and pay dues.

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4th Circ. Keeps CIA Officers' Appeal Rights In DEI Firing Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

All but one of the Fourth Circuit's judges voted to deny the federal government's request for an en banc rehearing of a panel's split decision that allowed CIA officers to appeal terminations that were allegedly due to their involvement with assignments related to DEI and accessibility, according to a Tuesday order.

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Calif. AG Rob Bonta Wins 2nd Term Over Michael Gates

By Bonnie Eslinger

California voters on Tuesday handed state Attorney General Rob Bonta a decisive reelection win over an Orange County city administrator who briefly served as a U.S. Department of Justice deputy assistant attorney general during the current Trump administration.

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Texas Firm Should Face Ex-Atty's Military Bias Suit, Court Told

By Rose Krebs

A former attorney for The Law Offices of Allen Rad PC is urging a Texas federal court to let his discrimination suit against the firm proceed, saying he has filed an amended complaint that plausibly pleads he was fired due to his Texas National Guard service.

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Md. Casino To Pay $150K To End EEOC Disability Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Caesars Entertainment and a Maryland subsidiary will pay $150,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it unlawfully fired a table dealer after he had a heart attack at work, according to a federal court filing.

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Ex-Hospital Worker Can't Get Out Of Bias Settlement

By Melanie Dorsey

A Michigan federal judge has ordered a former William Beaumont Hospital employee to honor a settlement resolving her pregnancy discrimination lawsuit, rejecting her attempts to narrow the agreement to exclude potential medical malpractice claims involving her minor child and allowing her attorneys to withdraw amid a breakdown in their relationship.

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Troops Urge Justices To Delay Review Of Military Trans Ban

By Katie Buehler

A group of transgender servicemembers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decline to review the Trump administration's ban on transgender individuals serving in the military for now, saying the government's current appeal of a narrow circuit court ruling against the policy is premature and incomplete.

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9th Circ. Told Apple Stock Awards Belong In OT Pay

By MJ Koo

Hourly Apple workers have asked the Ninth Circuit to revive their claims that the tech giant underpaid them for overtime by excluding the value of company stock they received, arguing that a lower court wrongly allowed Apple to exclude the stock awards from overtime calculations.

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Worker Says Eatery Co. At Denver Airport Owes Preshift Pay

By MJ Koo

A former food preparer at a Taco Bell location in Denver International Airport sued the restaurant's operator in Colorado state court, alleging the company failed to pay hourly employees for time spent undergoing security screenings and getting to their workstations before clocking in, and failed to provide paid rest breaks.

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En Banc 9th Circ. Kiboshes Election Threat Order Against DOJ

By Bonnie Eslinger

New litigation brought by unions and civil rights groups seeking to stop the U.S. Department of Justice from threatening election workers whipsawed through the Ninth Circuit at lightning speed Tuesday, with a split en banc Ninth Circuit panel eventually finding that the DOJ's actions don't merit a temporary restraining order.

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Mass. Voters Approve Public Defenders' Bid For Union Rights

By Julie Manganis

Attorneys and other employees of Massachusetts' public defender agency should have the opportunity to decide whether to form a union, voters said Tuesday in approving a ballot measure authorizing a change to state law.

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Financial Adviser Pleads Guilty To Impersonating DOL Official

By Grace Elletson

A Pittsburgh man pled guilty to falsely presenting himself as an employee from the U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration in order to take control of local businesses' retirement plans, according to a federal court filing.

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Ex-Employee Calls J&J Unit's Trade Secret Suit Retaliation

By George Woolston

A former associate director sued by a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary for allegedly misappropriating confidential information hit back with her own complaint, alleging the company's lawsuit is retaliation for reporting discriminatory and retaliatory conduct by her manager.

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Consistency Is Key In Pipeline Incident Investigations

A pipeline release that causes worker injury does not trigger one investigation, but five or more, running on different timetables, under different statutes, and new federal procedures may soon add more complexity — but companies must maintain one centralized record to ensure consistency throughout, say attorneys at Squire Patton.

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Former DOJ Officials See Mixed Results In Midterm Races

By Chris Villani

The 2026 midterm elections included bids for office by several former U.S. Department of Justice officials and nominees for the federal bench, with one race a dead heat and several others decided as of early Wednesday.

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Gibson Dunn Set To Bring On 120 Lawyers From Weil

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson and Marialuisa Taddia

Gibson Dunn is set to hire the U.S. and London-based private funds teams from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, bringing on 120 attorneys in the largest group move reported since Weil's management committee recommended last week that the firm wind down operations.

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Analysis

Attys Ensure Voters' 'Right To Be Heard' In Midterm Elections

By James Boyle and Lynn LaRowe

From BigLaw attorneys and solo practitioners to university professors, thousands of attorney volunteers turned out for Tuesday's midterm elections to ensure American voters' ballots would be counted.

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Analysis

Midterm Dem Wins To Scramble Lit Funding Legislative Efforts

By Ryan Boysen

Litigation funders can rest easy, for now, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will need to rethink its approach after last night's midterm elections saw Democrats rout Republicans, scrambling a yearslong effort for federal regulation of litigation finance that's so far relied on Republicans.

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State AG Race Wins Set To Give Dems Control Of Most Offices

By Madison Arnold

Democrats are poised to oversee a majority of state attorneys general offices around the country after Tuesday's elections saw the party hang on to all of its existing seats and flip control of five offices from the Republicans, according to unofficial election results.

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Vedder Will Move NYC Staff To New Manhattan Office

By Isaac Monterose

Vedder's New York City staff will move to a new downtown Manhattan office sometime in 2027 after the law firm signed a 49,000-square-foot lease in a 2.6-million-square-foot office tower, according to landlord Rockefeller Group.

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Ogletree Adds Ex-Amazon Employment Atty To Seattle Office

By Rachel Riley

A leading in-house employment attorney for Amazon has departed to join Ogletree Deakins' Seattle office, bringing expertise helping Fortune 50 companies navigate workforce challenges to the firm.

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DOJ Says Epshteyn Will Answer ABA Service Motion

By Jared Foretek

Trump advisor Boris Epshteyn will answer for himself why he has allegedly been evading subpoenas in the American Bar Association's legal challenge to the administration's law firm targeting campaign, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday.

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DOJ Accused Of Unlawfully Ending Crime Victim Agreement

By Tom Lotshaw

The National Crime Victim Law Institute has accused the U.S. Department of Justice in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims of unlawfully terminating a $500,000 cooperative agreement aimed at strengthening legal support for disabled crime victims in the wake of an executive order against diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

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Holland & Hart Cost Ex-Client $23M Stake In Co., Suit Says

By Zach Dupont

Holland & Hart LLP and two of its attorneys were accused of malpractice in Colorado state court Tuesday by a former client who claims the attorneys failed to inform her that a wealth transfer plan with her then-husband left her iced out of the couple's most valuable asset.

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Goldstein Ordered To Pay Trimmed $1M Forfeiture

By Nadia Dreid

Former SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein was hit with a $1 million forfeiture order Wednesday by a Maryland federal judge in the wake of his tax and mortgage fraud trial, where the appellate advocate was convicted on a dozen charges.

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