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October 20, 2025
LA Angels Staffer Testifies He Didn't Suspect Drug Abuse
The Los Angeles Angels' traveling secretary testified Monday in a trial over the overdose death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs, saying he never suspected that the colleague who provided narcotics to Skaggs was abusing drugs, but instead thought his abnormal workplace behavior was due to mental health issues.
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October 20, 2025
9th Circ. Judges Doubt DOD's 'Broad' Transgender Troop Ban
Two Ninth Circuit judges hearing an appeal Monday expressed doubts about the Trump administration's bid to vacate a preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. Department of Defense from treating gender dysphoria as a disqualifying medical condition, saying the "broad" new policy sweeps in undiagnosed individuals.
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October 20, 2025
Judge Blocks Ohio Ban On NIL For High School Athletes
An Ohio judge on Monday opened the door to high school athletes in the state to begin receiving name, image and likeness compensation, granting a request by the mother of a star football player to immediately block a ban on such payments.
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October 20, 2025
DOT's Immigrant Truck Driver Rule Gets DC Circ. Challenge
Workers and unions on Monday petitioned the D.C. Circuit to review a new U.S. Department of Transportation rule that blocks certain immigrants from holding commercial driver's licenses despite having authorization to work in the U.S.
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October 20, 2025
Jack Nicklaus Wins $50M In Fla. Defamation Trial
A Florida jury on Monday awarded Jack Nicklaus $50 million in his defamation lawsuit against the company named after him, finding it made false statements in a 2022 New York lawsuit over the golf legend's interest in a Saudi Arabian league and disseminated those claims to news organizations.
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October 20, 2025
Security Guards Seek Trial Over Alleged OT Record Tampering
Two security guards asked a Colorado federal judge Monday to reject a security company's bid for a win in their proposed class action, claiming the company's representations about the security guards committing time fraud were false.
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October 20, 2025
RELX Escapes Ex-Employee's Greenwashing, Retaliation Suit
A Massachusetts federal judge has tossed a suit accusing RELX PLC of retaliating against a former employee and committing securities fraud by making business decisions that contradicted environmentally minded pledges made to investors, ruling that the employee missed the window to file a charge related to his termination.
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October 20, 2025
Bricklayer, Contractor End Suit Over Shuttling Time
A bricklayer and a refractory contractor told a Pennsylvania federal court Monday that they agreed to end a proposed class action claiming the company failed to pay workers for the time they spent shuttling to and from the construction of a petrochemical plant.
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October 20, 2025
NJ Panel Skeptical That Vacation Time Is Paid Sick Leave
A New Jersey appellate panel on Monday questioned a concrete supplier's assertion that it complied with the state's Earned Sick Leave Law even without differentiating between workers' vacation time and paid sick leave.
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October 20, 2025
Feds Warned Again Not To Search Immigration Atty's Phone
A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday again told the government it cannot look at data pulled off an immigration lawyer's phone that it seized at Logan International Airport last month, as the court weighs his request for an order to destroy the information.
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October 20, 2025
Ex-GC Says Honeywell Can't Boot Her Age Bias Suit To China
A former vice president and general counsel for a Honeywell subsidiary said the conglomerate can't skirt her age discrimination claims by punting the case to China — where she lived and worked during her employment — because she has no legal remedy under Chinese law.
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October 20, 2025
Tire-Maker Can't Thwart Asbestos Suits, NC Justices Are Told
More than a dozen plaintiffs locked in a long-running battle for workers' compensation tied to alleged asbestos exposure at a Continental Tire factory are urging North Carolina's top court to let stand a lower appeals court decision reviving their cases.
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October 20, 2025
Kirkland Rehires Esteemed NY Trial Lawyer From Latham
Kirkland & Ellis LLP announced Monday that it has rehired a prominent trial attorney from Latham & Watkins LLP, touting his record of securing 18 complete defense verdicts and more than $1.8 billion in damages for plaintiffs since 2017.
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October 20, 2025
LA Reid's Former Attys Face Sanctions Bid In Sex Assault Suit
Attorneys for a producer accusing music executive Antonio "L.A." Reid of sexual assault asked a New York federal judge to sanction his former lawyers for allegedly causing unreasonable delays to the proceedings, most recently preventing a trial from proceeding as scheduled in September.
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October 20, 2025
Seminary Settles Sex Bias Suit With Ex-Ministry Director
A Pittsburgh Presbyterian seminary has agreed to settle a former interim director's suit claiming she was fired out of gender bias and for raising complaints that the seminary pushed a racially discriminatory background check policy, according to federal court filings.
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October 20, 2025
Texas Firm Tries To Undo FLSA Ruling Just Before Trial
A Texas personal injury law firm argued that a federal judge was mistaken when he ruled that a paralegal was an independent contractor for only the first part of her tenure, urging the court to reconsider the decision days before a trial in the wage case.
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October 20, 2025
Feds Reduce Charge Against SEIU Official Over ICE Protest
Federal prosecutors in California have downgraded from a felony to a misdemeanor an obstruction charge against the Service Employees International Union's California head, who was arrested in June during a protest at an immigration raid.
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October 20, 2025
EEOC Says It Hasn't Issued Layoff Notices Amid Shutdown
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has not laid off workers during the government shutdown and will not do so per an order blocking the federal government from terminating employees during the lapse in funding, the agency told a California's federal court.
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October 20, 2025
Guam Fund Seeks OK To Appeal Loss Of Military Leave Suit
A retirement fund for Guam government employees asked a Guam federal judge to let it appeal an order finding the fund and the U.S. territory liable for shortchanging pension contributions for employees who take paid leave while serving in the military.
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October 20, 2025
More Fed. Workers Added To TRO Blocking Shutdown Layoffs
A California federal judge who blocked the Trump administration from laying off workers from two unions representing thousands of federal workers has expanded her temporary restraining order to include three more unions and also clarified that the order covered workers with union contracts that the administration is seeking to ditch.
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October 20, 2025
High Court Skips Male Ex-School Administrator's Bias Suit
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review a suit brought by a former private school administrator who said the Seventh Circuit ignored evidence that school leadership preferred women when it refused to revive his suit claiming he was pushed out in favor of a female employee.
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October 20, 2025
Union Asks 3rd Circ. To Rethink Toss Of $3.5M Pension Win
The Third Circuit conflicted with U.S. Supreme Court precedent when it scrapped a $3.5 million win for a pipe fitters and plumbers union that found a commercial real estate company failed to properly factor overtime in pension contributions, the union argued as it asked the Circuit Court to rethink its opinion.
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October 20, 2025
High Court Won't Hear Hospital Vax Mandate Case
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it won't review a decision backing a hospital's termination of a group of workers who refused to get COVID-19 vaccinations.
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October 20, 2025
Justices To Review Federal Arbitration Exemption Again
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up a worker misclassification suit that could further refine an exemption to the Federal Arbitration Act.
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October 17, 2025
Angels Couldn't Oversee Pitcher The Night He OD'd, Jury Told
A former Los Angeles Angels communications executive told a California state jury Friday that the team had no ability to control or oversee pitcher Tyler Skaggs and the staffer who supplied him with drugs on the night Skaggs overdosed because both employees were off duty at the time.
Expert Analysis
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Painting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Painting trains me to see both the fine detail and the whole composition at once, enabling me to identify friction points while keeping sight of a client's bigger vision, but the most significant lesson I've brought to my legal work has been the value of originality, says Jana Gouchev at Gouchev Law.
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H-2A Rule Rollback Sheds Light On 2 Policy Litigation Issues
The Trump administration’s recent refusal to defend an immigration regulation implemented by the Biden administration highlights a questionable process that both parties have used to bypass the Administrative Procedure Act’s rulemaking process, and points toward the next step in the fight over universal injunctions, says Mark Stevens at Clark Hill.
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What's At Stake At High Court For Presidential Removal Power
Two pending U.S. Supreme Court cases —Trump v. Slaughter and Trump v. Cook — raise fundamental questions about the constitutional separation of powers, threaten the 90-year-old precedent of Humphrey's Executor v. U.S. and will determine the president's authority to control independent federal agencies, says Kolya Glick at Arnold & Porter.
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Employer Considerations As Ill. Ends Mandatory Fact-Finding
Illinois recently eliminated mandatory fact-finding conferences, and while such meetings tend to benefit complainants, respondent employers should not dismiss them out of hand without conducting a thorough analysis of the risks and benefits, which will vary from case to case, says Kimberly Ross at FordHarrison.
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Calif. Justices Usher In Stricter Era For Wage Law Ignorance
In Iloff v. LaPaille, the California Supreme Court determined that neither an employer's ignorance of wage obligations nor a worker agreeing to an unconventional arrangement is sufficient to establish good faith, demonstrating that the era of casual wage arrangements without legal vetting is over, says Brandy Alonzo-Mayland at Michelman & Robinson.
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What The New Nondomiciled-Trucker Rule Means For Carriers
A new Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration interim final rule restricting states' issuance of commercial drivers licenses to nondomiciled drivers does not alter motor carriers' obligations to verify drivers' qualifications, but may create disruptions by reducing the number of eligible drivers, say attorneys at Benesch.
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Understanding And Managing Jurors' Hindsight Bias
Hindsight bias — wherein events seem more predictable after the fact than they were beforehand — presents a persistent cognitive distortion in jury decision-making, but attorneys can mitigate its effects at trial through awareness, repetition and framing, say consultants at Courtroom Sciences.
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Protecting Sensitive Court Filings After Recent Cyber Breach
In the wake of a recent cyberattack on federal courts' Case Management/Electronic Case Files system, civil litigants should consider seeking enhanced protections for sensitive materials filed under seal to mitigate the risk of unauthorized exposure, say attorneys at Redgrave.
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Minimizing AI Bias Risks Amid New Calif. Workplace Rules
In light of California implementing new regulations to protect job applicants and employees from discrimination linked to artificial intelligence tools, employers should take proactive steps to ensure compliance, both to minimize the risk of discrimination and to avoid liability, says Alexa Foley at Gordon Rees.
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Wash. Ruling Raises Pay Transparency Litigation Risk
Washington Supreme Court’s recent decision in Branson v. Washington Fine Wine and Spirits, affirming applicants standing to sue regardless of their intent in applying, broadens state employers' already broad exposure — even when compared to other states with pay transparency laws, say attorneys at Hunton.
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Navigating Employee Social Media Use Amid Political Violence
With concerns about employee social media use reaching a fever pitch in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, employers should analyze the legal framework, update company policies and maintain a clear mission to be prepared to manage complaints around employees' polarizing posts amid rising political division and violence, say attorneys at Seyfarth.
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Judging Figure Skating Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Judging figure skating competitions helps me hone the focus, decisiveness and ability to process complex real-time information I need in court, but more importantly, it makes me reengage with a community and my identity outside of law, which, paradoxically, always brings me back to work feeling restored, says Megan Raymond at Groombridge Wu.
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$100K H-1B Fee May Disrupt Rural Healthcare Needs
The Trump administration's newly imposed $100,000 supplemental fee on new H-1B petitions may disproportionately affect healthcare employers' ability to recruit international medical graduates, and the fee's national interest exceptions will not adequately solve ensuing problems for healthcare employers or medically underserved areas, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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Female Athletes' NIL Deal Challenge Could Be Game Changer
A challenge by eight female athletes to the NCAA’s $2.8 billion name, image and likeness settlement shows that women in sports are still fighting for their share — not just of money, but of respect, resources and representation, says Madilynne Lee at Anderson Kill.
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What Ethics Rules Say On Atty Discipline For Online Speech
Though law firms are free to discipline employees for their online commentary about Charlie Kirk or other social media activity, saying crude or insensitive things on the internet generally doesn’t subject attorneys to professional discipline under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, says Stacie H. Rosenzweig at Halling & Cayo.