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June 29, 2026
A Seventh Circuit panel on Monday affirmed the dismissal of a former nanny's suit accusing "Sandman" author Neil Gaiman of sexually assaulting her while in New Zealand, finding the dispute should be heard in that country rather than Wisconsin where he currently lives as a lawful permanent resident.
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June 29, 2026
A Michigan woman filed a proposed class action in federal court Saturday alleging that automotive supplier Challenge Manufacturing failed to protect employees' and customers' private information, allowing cybercriminals to access it in a data breach last month.
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June 29, 2026
A former employee of a Fortive medical equipment subsidiary urged a Colorado federal judge to reject the unit's and its parent's bid for an early win in her retaliation suit, saying evidence shows a restructuring masked her firing after she challenged government pricing violations.
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June 29, 2026
A Georgia federal judge has greenlighted a $99,000 deal JCPenney reached with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to wrap up a suit claiming the department store chain fired a worker for taking time off for chemotherapy sessions, the agency announced Monday.
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June 29, 2026
Florida's motor vehicle agency asked a federal court to deny foreign truckers' motion for anonymity in their lawsuit challenging the agency's decision to stop issuing commercial driver's licenses to certain noncitizens, arguing their fear of reprisal by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement doesn't justify that request.
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June 29, 2026
Yellow Corp. suffered a major loss in its bankruptcy proceedings Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court preserved a finding that it owes billions in retirement payments, but the defunct trucking company notched a small win in Delaware federal court by skirting liability for a WARN Act violation.
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June 29, 2026
"Fortnite"-maker Epic Games Inc. and an ex-contractor have settled the former's claims that the latter leaked secrets on social media, according to a motion Epic filed seeking a court order memorializing the parties' deal barring the ex-contractor from possessing or using its confidential information and trade secrets.
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June 29, 2026
An Eastern Michigan University interior design professor has sued the university and its board of regents in Michigan federal court, alleging the school systematically paid female faculty less than similarly situated male professors and then refused to correct the disparity after she sought a salary adjustment.
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June 29, 2026
The city of Baltimore and two academic groups have dropped their constitutional challenge to two Trump administration executive orders that sought to cancel diversity, equity and inclusion-related government grants, stating they were content with a Fourth Circuit ruling that clarified the "narrow scope" of the president's directives.
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June 29, 2026
The rapper formerly known as Kanye West has reached a settlement-in-principle with a former assistant who accused him of sexually harassing her by sending her inappropriate and profane texts and by forcing her to watch him masturbate, attorneys for the parties told a Los Angeles judge Monday.
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June 29, 2026
A Colorado federal judge remanded a former linebacker's discrimination suit alleging that the NFL and the Denver Broncos punished him for requesting a therapeutic-use exemption for synthetic THC, finding that both failed to show the claims were preempted by the league's collective bargaining agreement.
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June 29, 2026
A New Jersey appeals court ruled Monday that workers can pursue representative wage actions under state law without meeting the requirements for a formal class action, while partly scaling back the time period for which back wages can be sought.
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June 29, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up an appeal by voting rights advocates who claim a Texas law banning so-called vote harvesting violates the First Amendment.
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June 29, 2026
Paul Hastings LLP has hired a former White & Case LLP partner to join the firm in New York, who focuses her practice on compensation and benefits issues and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the firm announced Monday.
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June 29, 2026
The First Circuit declined a request by three federal worker unions to formally order a Massachusetts district judge to pick up the pace in ruling on their challenge to a Trump administration policy asking job applicants for their views on the president's agenda, something the plaintiffs are calling an unlawful "loyalty" question.
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June 29, 2026
The president has unlimited authority to fire members of independent agencies, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in a major win for President Donald Trump's campaign against officials at the Federal Trade Commission and beyond.
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June 29, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook cannot be immediately removed from her post, a setback for President Donald Trump as he seeks to further remake the central bank's leadership.
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June 29, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up a University of Texas at Austin professor's appeal alleging the university punished him for his conservative speech and criticism of university leadership.
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June 29, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected defunct trucking giant Yellow Corp.'s appeal of a bankruptcy court decision that it owes billions of dollars in retirement fund withdrawal liability, despite a pandemic-era pension fund stimulus package.
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June 29, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a lawsuit accusing a New York healthcare system of unlawfully firing dozens of employees who requested religious exemptions from its COVID-19 vaccination policy, despite the workers' argument that the Second Circuit gave more credence to state law than their religious rights.
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June 29, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to take up religious healthcare workers' challenge to a pandemic-era New York state policy requiring healthcare providers to make their employees get vaccinated against COVID-19, drawing a dissent from Justices Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
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June 29, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to wade into a former Michigan Department of Corrections officer's lawsuit claiming he was fired for requesting lighter duties following a hip injury, leaving in place the Sixth Circuit's decision that a law barring disability bias in federally funded programs doesn't prohibit retaliation.
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June 26, 2026
Coming in as lead counsel for OneTaste's former sales director four months ahead of the high-profile trial after previous lawyers were conflicted out, Celia Cohen and her Ballard Spahr LLP team were tasked with building a defense against a first-of-its-kind forced labor conspiracy case against top leaders of the "orgasmic meditation" organization.
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June 26, 2026
A cannabis dispensary is seeking an early win in its challenge to a New York state requirement compelling cannabis operators to sign labor peace agreements with unions to secure a license, telling a federal court Friday that the state's argument alleging the company has "unclean hands" is meritless.
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June 26, 2026
The federal judiciary announced Friday it will temporarily increase the fees for electronic access to court records to pay for a potential $800 million upgrade that will modernize and strengthen court records systems PACER and CM/ECF, an upgrade it previously said is needed to respond to escalating cyberattacks.