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  • August 20, 2026

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

    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."

  • August 20, 2026

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

    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.

  • August 20, 2026

    Smoke Shop Chain Misclassified Workers, Owes OT, Suit Says

    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.

  • August 20, 2026

    Colo. Lawyer Says Arbitration Bars Homebuilder's Theft Suit

    A lawyer told a Colorado federal judge Tuesday that the lawsuit from a homebuilding company accusing him of stealing tens of thousands of the company's files when he went to work for an adversarial law firm must be dismissed because the company already lost on identical claims in arbitration proceedings.

  • August 20, 2026

    LSU Gets Damages Sliced In Attys' Pay Bias Suit

    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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