A California fast-food industry bill at Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk and poised to replace a 2022 law would establish a standards council and increase the minimum wage for workers, while letting companies avoid liability for franchisees’ violations. Here, Law360 explores what each side gave up to reach a deal.
A religious rights group defending a Catholic school in a gay teacher's bias case saw a Fourth Circuit panel sidestep their arguments and zero in on a theory with more legal precedent, a pivot experts said signals the judges' disinterest in further expanding religious employers' rights to discriminate.
North Carolina and West Virginia defended their health care funding bans on treatments for gender dysphoria Thursday, arguing before the full Fourth Circuit that the prohibitions don't discriminate against transgender people because the laws prohibit everyone on government plans from receiving certain treatments.