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October 09, 2025
Hemp Co. Asks Del. Court To Defer Ex-Exec's Suit To Australia
An Australian hemp manufacturer and its U.S. subsidiaries asked a Delaware federal judge Thursday to dismiss or pause a lawsuit filed by a former executive-turned-whistleblower, arguing the case should be deferred under international comity principles.
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October 09, 2025
BeFrugal Marketing Firm Says Exec Steered Clients To Rival
Affiliate marketing firm BeFrugal said in a lawsuit this week in Massachusetts state court that a senior vice president secretly co-founded a competing company, then steered major clients, including DirecTV and Samsung, to the new business.
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October 09, 2025
NASA Union Files Suit Challenging End Of Bargaining Rights
An engineers' union representing NASA employees has challenged President Donald Trump's executive order limiting workers' bargaining rights at certain federal agencies, arguing in D.C. federal court that he violated the union's rights under the First and Fifth Amendments by ending its longstanding presence at the agency.
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October 09, 2025
UNC Ex-Provost Asks Court To Halt Alleged Evidence Deletion
A former provost of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suing the university in state court warned that without speeding up discovery, the public's right to transparency will suffer from the university's trustees deleting text messages and other evidence.
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October 09, 2025
Fired Jets Executive Fights Team's Use Of 'Privileged' Texts
A former finance executive suing the New York Jets for an alleged retaliatory firing after her husband reported sexual harassment by the team's president now seeks an injunction to stop the organization from publicly disclosing or discussing certain text messages between her and her spouse.
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October 09, 2025
Tire-Maker Takes 13 Revived Asbestos Suits To NC High Court
Continental Tire is asking North Carolina's top court to review whether more than a dozen workers' compensation cases linked to alleged asbestos exposure at one of its factories should carry on, saying the claimants cannot skirt the results of a bellwether trial.
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October 09, 2025
'Moonlighting' Atty Must Arbitrate Wage Claims, Ga. Firm Says
John Foy & Associates PC told a Georgia federal court that a former firm attorney breached her employment agreement by "moonlighting" with another firm during her employment and then filing a wage suit against John Foy & Associates instead of pursuing her claims in confidential arbitration.
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October 09, 2025
Retailer Faces Class Action Over Excluding Bonuses From OT Pay
A Colorado retail supplier was hit with a proposed collective action in federal court Thursday from a former employee who said it failed to properly calculate overtime premiums.
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October 09, 2025
Anti-Union Firm Joins Fight Against Calif. Cannabis Labor Law
An anti-union group has thrown its weight behind a cannabis retailer's challenge to a California law that requires marijuana businesses to sign labor peace agreements with unions, arguing before the Ninth Circuit that the law is preempted by the National Labor Relations Act.
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October 09, 2025
Biotech Wins $367K From Ex-CEO In Conn. Conversion Suit
A Connecticut jury has ordered the fired CEO of a flavoring and aroma firm, who is also a tax attorney, to pay the company more than $367,000 plus punitive damages after agreeing that he improperly sent himself money around the time of his termination and breached his fiduciary duties.
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October 09, 2025
Calif. Enacts Law To Boost Pay Parity Protections
A California law aimed at increasing the accuracy of the compensation estimates that state employers are required to include in job postings and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom makes clear that perks such as stock options are considered wages and expands the limitations window for pursuing pay bias claims.
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October 09, 2025
Investment Co. Hit With $8.9M Jury Verdict In Retaliation Suit
An investment management firm should pay a French-Canadian former employee nearly $8.9 million, a California federal jury said, finding that the company had unlawfully fired him for complaining that his boss belittled him because of his national origin.
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October 08, 2025
Ex-AI Chief Says US Bank Can't Dodge Race Bias Claims
The former head of U.S. Bank's artificial intelligence efforts says he looped in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission within the required time frame before suing the bank for discrimination, telling a North Carolina federal judge not to toss his claims.
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October 08, 2025
Golf Execs Deny Discrediting Jack Nicklaus In NY Lawsuit
Two executives with the company named after Jack Nicklaus testified in Florida state court on Wednesday that they played no role in providing defamatory statements in a New York lawsuit against the golf legend, denying that they also forwarded false claims to reporters and were involved with filing the complaint.
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October 08, 2025
Utility Escapes $5M Disability Bias Award For Fired Worker
A Washington federal judge scuttled a $5 million jury award for a water utility worker in his disability bias case alleging he was fired for seeking an accommodation for an on-the-job injury, ruling that trial evidence didn't show the ordeal was emotionally taxing enough to justify the multimillion-dollar amount.
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October 08, 2025
Tech Services Co. Fired IT Chief For FMLA Request, Court Told
A provider of business technology services terminated its information technology director after 21 years of service following his request to take time off to care for his wife while she recovered from endometriosis-related surgery, according to a complaint filed in Ohio federal court.
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October 08, 2025
Ex-Hospital CEO Drops Fraud Suit Against Former Employer
The former CEO of a Nevada-based psychiatric hospital operator has dropped her Colorado federal lawsuit alleging the company's president transferred contracts to his own business to avoid paying her severance and a consultation bonus after the company laid off all its employees.
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October 08, 2025
NJ Court Partially Revives Worker's Suit Over Truck Collision
A New Jersey appeals panel on Wednesday partially reinstated a worker's negligence claim against a wine company, finding there were questions about its relationship to the worker's employer and whether it owed him a duty of care.
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October 08, 2025
Mich. Justice Unsure Gov. Exempt From 1-Year Claim Deadline
Michigan's chief justice said Wednesday she was "struggling" with an immigration legal assistance group's contention that a one-year notice deadline for claims against the state doesn't apply to suits against the governor.
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October 08, 2025
Welder Asks Fla. High Court To Revive Whistleblower Claims
A welder mechanic asked the Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday to revive his whistleblower retaliation claims against his former employer, Gulf Power Co., arguing that state law requires only that he reasonably believed a violation of law or regulation occurred, not that he have to prove an actual violation.
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October 08, 2025
3rd Circ. Upholds Ruling In Debt Collector's Trade Secrets Suit
A Third Circuit let stand a ruling that work passwords are not trade secrets and that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is inapplicable to workplace policy violations in an appeal from a debt collection company suing two former employees.
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October 08, 2025
Judge Rejects Feds' Bid To Reassign USPTO Union Cases
A D.C. federal judge has rejected the Trump administration's claim that suits by unions representing employees of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office challenging an executive order ending their collective bargaining rights are not related to similar cases before him.
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October 08, 2025
AFL-CIO Opposes Draft Senate Crypto Bill
A major labor organization, the AFL-CIO, has come out against a Republican draft bill on crypto market structure, saying the draft lacks "meaningful safeguards."
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October 08, 2025
7th Circ. Backs DePaul In Ex-Instructor's Race Bias Suit
The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday upheld DePaul University's win over a former religious studies instructor's suit claiming he wasn't rehired because he's Arab American, finding he couldn't overcome the school's explanation that he was let go because of allegations he'd sexually assaulted a student.
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October 08, 2025
Thompson Hine Boosts Benefits Team With 7 Hires
Thompson Hine LLP said Wednesday it's expanding its employee benefits and executive compensation practice with seven new lawyers, including a pair of senior attorneys from the Internal Revenue Service and another from the U.S. Department of Labor.
Expert Analysis
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How To Navigate NYC's Stricter New Prenatal Leave Rules
On top of the state's prenatal leave law, New York City employers now face additional rules, including notice and recordkeeping requirements, and necessary separation from sick leave, so employers should review their policies and train staff to ensure compliance with both laws, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.
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A Simple Way Courts Can Help Attys Avoid AI Hallucinations
As attorneys increasingly rely on generative artificial intelligence for legal research, courts should consider expanding online quality control programs to flag potential hallucinations — permitting counsel to correct mistakes and sparing judges the burden of imposing sanctions, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl and Connors.
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Viral Coldplay Incident Shows Why Workplace Policies Matter
The viral kiss cam incident at a recent Coldplay concert involving a CEO and a human resources executive raises questions about how employers can use their code of conduct or morality clauses to address off-the-clock behavior that may be detrimental to the company's reputation, says Masood Ali at Segal McCambridge.
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Cos. Must Tailor Due Diligence As Trafficking Risks Increase
As legislators, prosecutors and plaintiffs attorneys increasingly focus on labor and sex trafficking throughout the U.S., companies must tailor their due diligence strategies to protect against forced labor trafficking risks in their supply chains, say attorneys at Steptoe.
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Series
Creating Botanical Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Pressing and framing plants that I grow has shown me that pursuing an endeavor that brings you joy can lead to surprising benefits for a legal career, including mental clarity, perspective and even a bit of humility, says Douglas Selph at Morris Manning.
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What To Expect As Calif. Justices Weigh Arbitration Fee Law
If the California Supreme Court’s upcoming ruling in Hohenshelt v. Superior Court holds that the Federal Arbitration Act does not preempt the California Arbitration Act's strict fee deadlines, employers and businesses could lose the right to arbitrate over minor procedural delays, say attorneys at Bird Marella.
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New Federal Worker Religious Protections Test All Employers
A recent Trump administration memorandum expanding federal employees' religious protections raises tough questions for all employers and signals a larger trend toward significantly expanding religious rights in the workplace, say attorneys at Seyfarth.
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Compliance Is A New Competitive Edge For Mortgage Lenders
So far, 2025 has introduced state and federal regulatory turbulence that is pressuring mortgage lenders to reevaluate the balance between competitive and compliant employee and customer recruiting practices, necessitating a compliance recalibration that prioritizes five key strategies, say attorneys at Mitchell Sandler.
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Noncompete Forecast Shows Tough Weather For Employers
Several new state noncompete laws signal rough conditions for employers, particularly in the healthcare sector, so employers must account for employees' geographic circumstances as they cannot rely solely on choice-of-law clauses, say lawyers at McDermott.
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Opinion
The Legal Education Status Quo Is No Longer Tenable
As underscored by the fallout from California’s February bar exam, legal education and licensure are tethered to outdated systems, and the industry must implement several key reforms to remain relevant and responsive to 21st century legal needs, says Matthew Nehmer at The Colleges of Law.
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Opinion
Calif. Must Amend Trade Secret Civil Procedure
A California procedural law that effectively shields trade secret defendants from having to return company materials until the plaintiff can craft detailed requests must be amended to recognize that property recovery and trade secret analysis are distinct issues, says Matthew Miller at Hanson Bridgett.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Relevance Redactions
In recent cases addressing redactions that parties sought to apply based on the relevance of information — as opposed to considerations of privilege — courts have generally limited a party’s ability to withhold nonresponsive or irrelevant material, providing a few lessons for discovery strategy, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Navigating Administrative Exhaustion In EEOC Charges
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Before responding to a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charge, employers should understand the process of exhausting administrative remedies and when it applies, and consider several best practices, such as preserving records and crafting effective position statements, says Matthew Gagnon at Ogletree.
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Opinion
Section 1983 Has Promise After End Of Nationwide Injunctions
After the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. Casa, Section 1983 civil rights suits can provide a better pathway to hold the government accountable — but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice.
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Corp. Human Rights Regulatory Landscape Is Fragmented
Given the complexity of compliance with nations' overlapping human rights laws, multinational companies need to be cognizant of the evolving approaches to modern slavery transparency, and proposals that could reduce mandatory due diligence and reporting requirements, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.