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May 05, 2025
Levi Strauss Beats Former Exec's Sex-Bias Suit At Trial
A California federal jury Monday cleared Levi Strauss of sex-bias claims brought by a former company executive who claims she was skipped over for a senior director's role after announcing her pregnancy, reaching their decision in about 20 minutes after a one-week trial.
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May 05, 2025
Ex-Twitter Execs Can See Some Musk Texts In Severance Row
Four former Twitter executives claiming they are owed $200 million in severance will be able to conduct a search of Elon Musk's text messages, but only when it comes to iMessage and not other messaging platforms like Signal, a California federal judge ruled.
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May 05, 2025
Vet Says He Was Fired For Reporting Euthanasia Concerns
A Michigan veterinarian is claiming his contract for providing services for the Saginaw County animal shelter wasn't renewed because he reported allegations that untrained workers were performing euthanasia, adding that he was ultimately replaced by a younger veterinarian.
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May 05, 2025
Pa. District Paid Female Teachers Thousands Less, Jury Told
Central Bucks School District in Pennsylvania unfairly paid female teachers less than their male counterparts, in some cases by tens of thousands of dollars despite holding the same jobs, a federal jury was told Monday.
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May 05, 2025
IHOP Franchisee, Ex-Server End Sex Harassment Suit
A North Carolina federal judge agreed to dismiss a legal battle between an IHOP franchisee and a former server who said she was fired for rejecting a manager's sexual advances, as the parties had said a previous ruling from another judge doomed the worker's suit.
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May 05, 2025
Late Amazon Worker's Life Insurance Suit Delayed By 2 Months
An Ohio federal judge on Friday delayed an upcoming trial over a late Amazon worker's life insurance policy by about two months but declined to convert it to a bench trial at this point, saying the request to proceed without a jury was premature.
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May 05, 2025
Ex-Supervisor Says Carvana Fired Him Because Of Disability
A former manager for used car giant Carvana has hit the company with a lawsuit alleging that he was fired for taking time off while disabled and that the company told him as much when it let him go last year.
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May 05, 2025
Groups Urge DC Circ. To Halt Noncitizen Registration Rule
Immigrants rights groups called on the D.C. Circuit to pause the Trump administration's interim final rule requiring all noncitizens to register with the federal government or face criminal prosecution, after a lower court declined to issue a preliminary injunction.
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May 05, 2025
Holtec Worker 'Cast Aside' After Beating Cancer, Jurors Told
A former nuclear technician told a New Jersey federal jury Monday that he was a loyal worker who was "cast aside in silence" by Holtec International when he returned to work after beating cancer and was demoted, had his work hours reduced and ultimately terminated without ever receiving a negative performance review.
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May 05, 2025
Celebrity Doctor Says McMahon Accuser's Atty Defamed Him
A celebrity doctor who has been fighting an information request from a former staffer for Vince McMahon accusing the former World Wrestling Entertainment executive of sexual assault and trafficking has claimed that the accuser's attorney defamed him and his practice during a press conference livestreamed on YouTube.
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May 05, 2025
7th Circ. Affirms Funder's Loss In Fraud Suit Against Law Firm
The Seventh Circuit on Friday upheld an Illinois federal court's rulings ending a litigation funder's claims that a law firm illegally dropped the funder to represent a former employee and her competing venture, saying the lower court's detailed orders show it carefully resolved the issue.
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May 05, 2025
Clifford Chance Adds Paul Weiss Exec Compensation Atty In NY
Clifford Chance LLP has added a Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP transactional attorney in New York as co-chair of its U.S. executive compensation practice, the firm announced Monday.
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May 05, 2025
Ex-Seton Hall President Asks To Add Conspiracy Claim To Suit
Seton Hall University's former president is seeking to add claims to his whistleblower suit against the school alleging that it conspired to "disparage" him in the press partly in retaliation for reporting sexual abuse-related allegations about the school's current president.
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May 05, 2025
Morgan Lewis Employment Ace Joins Vedder Price In Miami
A veteran Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP attorney has brought her labor and employment practice to Vedder Price PC in Miami, the firm announced Monday.
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May 05, 2025
2nd Circ. Revives Estee Lauder Worker's Wage Claims
The Second Circuit partly reinstated a former employee's lawsuit against cosmetics company Estee Lauder on Monday, saying she put forward enough details to support her unpaid overtime claims but not her race, gender orientation and age bias allegations.
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May 05, 2025
Justices Reject Review Of NLRB's COVID-19 Bonus Pay Order
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied review of a shuttered New Jersey nursing home's challenge to the Third Circuit's enforcement of a National Labor Relations Board decision that found the employer unlawfully slashed or ended COVID-19 bonuses for unionized workers.
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May 05, 2025
2nd Circ. Finds Lack Of Atty At Hearing Not Basis For Appeal
The Second Circuit said Monday that a former IT worker at an unidentified New Jersey law firm who pled guilty to fraud had no right to a court-appointed attorney under the Sixth Amendment for a postjudgment hearing over substituting an asset to satisfy a forfeiture order.
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May 05, 2025
Hotel Management Co. Exits Pension Fund Withdrawal Battle
A company tapped to manage a hotel at the center of a $1.1 million withdrawal liability lawsuit between the City of San Jose and a UNITE HERE pension fund has reached a deal with the plan to exit the case, according to a California federal court filing.
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May 02, 2025
RTX Cos., Workers Nab Initial OK Of $19.9M Break, Wage Deal
A California federal judge Thursday preliminarily blessed a $19.9 million deal between companies affiliated with aerospace and defense giant RTX Corp. and workers who accused the company in a putative class action of failing to provide proper wages and breaks, saying the deal was likely fair, reasonable and adequate.
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May 02, 2025
Judge Axes Trump's Perkins Order With Shakespearean Flourish
A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday struck down as unconstitutional President Donald Trump's retaliatory executive order targeting Perkins Coie LLP, permanently blocking enforcement of the directive and likening the president's action to a Shakespeare character's suggestion that the way to amass power is to "kill all the lawyers."
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May 02, 2025
Musk, DOGE, Trump Look To Toss USAID Dismantling Suit
Elon Musk, President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others targeted in a lawsuit by U.S. Agency for International Development workers urged a Maryland judge to toss the suit alleging the gutting of the agency is illegal, saying Rubio's appointed role overseeing USAID legitimizes the action.
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May 02, 2025
O'Reilly Auto Pregnant Worker Suit Geared Up For Wash. Trial
The Washington State Attorney General's Office may proceed to trial with claims that O'Reilly Auto denied pregnant employees' accommodation requests it was legally required to grant, an Evergreen State judge said Friday, while trimming certain retaliation claims from the suit.
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May 02, 2025
DOGE Takes Social Security Data Access Fight To High Court
The Social Security Administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to lift a Maryland federal judge's order that limits the Department of Government Efficiency's access to millions of Americans' data, in the first high court case involving the supposed fraud-busting actions of Elon Musk's group.
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May 02, 2025
Ex-Travelers Employee Can't Yet Appeal Arbitration Ruling
The Connecticut Appellate Court ruled Friday that a trial court's refusal to vacate a woman's arbitration loss in an age discrimination case against Travelers Indemnity Co., her former employer, wasn't a final order that could be appealed.
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May 02, 2025
DC Circ. Allows Feds To Halt Funding To Int'l Media Outlets
A D.C. Circuit panel has paused a lower court order that restored federal grant funding to international broadcasters while leaving intact other aspects of a ruling preserving the agency that oversees Voice of America.
Expert Analysis
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Employer Tips For Wise Use Of Workers' Biometrics And Tech
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Employers that collect employee biometric data and operate bring-your-own-device policies, which respectively offer better corporate security and more flexibility for workers, should prioritize certain best practices to protect the privacy and rights of employees and safeguard sensitive internal information, says Douglas Yang at Sheppard Mullin.
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Unprecedented Firings And The EEOC's Shifting Agenda
While President Donald Trump's unprecedented firing of Democratic Equal Employment Opportunity Commission members put an end to the party's voting majority, the move raises legal issues, as well as considerations related to the EEOC's lack of a quorum and shifting regulatory priorities, says Ally Coll at the Purple Method.
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Opinion
Inconsistent Injury-In-Fact Rules Hinder Federal Practice
A recent Third Circuit decision, contradicting a previous ruling about whether consumers of contaminated products have suffered an injury in fact, illustrates the deep confusion this U.S. Supreme Court standard creates among federal judges and practitioners, who deserve a simpler method of determining which cases have federal standing, says Eric Dwoskin at Dwoskin Wasdin.
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Virginia AI Bills Could Serve As Nationwide Model
If signed into law, two Virginia bills focused on regulating the use of high-risk AI systems in the private and public sectors have the potential to influence similar legislation in other states, as well as the compliance strategies of companies operating in the commonwealth and across the U.S., say attorneys at Woods Rogers.
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In-House Counsel Pointers For Preserving Atty-Client Privilege
Several recent rulings illustrate the challenges in-house counsel can face when attempting to preserve attorney-client privilege, but a few best practices can help safeguard communications and effectively assert the privilege in an increasingly scrutinized corporate environment, says Daniel Garrie at Law & Forensics.
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What Banks Need To Know About Trump's Executive Orders
While the numerous executive orders and memos from the last few weeks don't touch on many of the issues the banking industry expected the Trump administration to address, banks still need to pay attention to the flurry of orders from strategic, compliance and operational perspectives, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.
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Applying ABA Atty Role Guidance To White Collar Matters
The American Bar Association’s recently published guidance, clarifying the duties outside counsel owes to both organizational clients and those organizations' constituents, provides best practices that attorneys representing companies in white collar and other investigative matters should heed, say attorneys at MoFo.
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Tax-Free Ways To Help Employees After The LA Wildfires
Following the recent wildfires in Los Angeles, there are various tax-free ways to give employees the resources and flexibility they need, including simpler methods like disaster relief payments under Internal Revenue Code Section 139 and leave-sharing programs, and others that require more planning, says Ligeia Donis at Baker McKenzie.
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What Trump Admin's Anti-DEI Push Means For FCA Claims
President Donald Trump's recent rescission of a 60-year-old executive order imposing nondiscrimination requirements on certain federal contractors has far-reaching implications, including potential False Claims Act liability for contractors and grant recipients who fail to comply, though it may be a challenge for the government to successfully establish liability, say attorneys at Bass Berry.
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Improving Comms Between Trial Attys And Tech Witnesses
In major litigation involving complex technology, attorneys should employ certain strategies to collaborate with companies' technical personnel more effectively to enhance both the attorney's understanding of the subject matter and the expert's ability to provide effective testimony in court, say attorneys at Buchalter.
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Navigating Title IX Compliance In The NIL Era
As universities push to move more name, image and likeness activity in-house, it's unclear how the NCAA and its members will square implementation of the House settlement with Title IX requirements, say attorneys at Buchanan Ingersoll.
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Series
Collecting Rare Books Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My collection of rare books includes several written or owned by prominent lawyers from early U.S. history, and immersing myself in their stories helps me feel a deeper connection to my legal practice and its purpose, says Douglas Brown at Manatt Health.
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It Starts With Training: Anti-Harassment After 'It Ends With Us'
Actress Blake Lively's recent sexual harassment and retaliation allegations against her "It Ends With Us" co-star, director and producer, Justin Baldoni, should remind employers of their legal obligations to implement trainings, policies and other measures to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace, say attorneys at Morrison Cohen.
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Opinion
New DOJ Leaders Should Curb Ill-Conceived Prosecutions
First-of-their-kind cases have seemingly led to a string of overly aggressive prosecutions in recent years, so newly sworn-in leaders of the U.S. Department of Justice should consider creating reporting channels to stop unwise prosecutions before they snowball, says Jonathan Porter at Husch Blackwell.
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Tips For Pharma-Biotech Overlap Reporting In New HSR Form
While there’s no secret recipe for reporting overlaps to the Federal Trade Commission in the new Hart-Scott-Rodino Act form, there are several layers of considerations for all pharma-biotech companies and counsel to reflect on internally before reporting on any deal, say attorneys at A&O Shearman.