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May 26, 2026
President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday announced that it wishes to require federal employees with access to sensitive government information to sign a nondisclosure agreement, citing recent leaks related to immigration enforcement operations and the release of personal information belonging to approximately 4,500 Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees.
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May 26, 2026
CoStar Group is asking a Virginia federal court to pause an antitrust suit alleging it stifles competition and prevents cross-listings while it seeks to move a similar case, filed by Malm Inc., from California.
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May 26, 2026
General Electric Co. does not owe $230 million in pension obligations to construction employees covered by a boilermaker-blacksmith fund, the Eighth Circuit affirmed Tuesday, finding in a published opinion that GE qualified for a withdrawal liability exemption since "substantially all" of the employees worked in the building and construction industry.
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May 26, 2026
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America Inc. will fund approximately $180,000 in attorney fees and costs as part of a $515,000 settlement resolving claims that it used a time-rounding policy that shorted workers at Ohio and Kentucky facilities, after an Ohio federal judge granted the deal final approval Tuesday.
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May 26, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled a broad mix of cross-border corporate control disputes, merger settlements, startup equity fights, advancement claims and board oversight litigation, while also weighing fallout from high-profile deals involving Microsoft Corp., The Boeing Co. and Nikola Corp.
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May 26, 2026
An Illinois federal judge has reduced a $59 million jury verdict won by garbage truck maker Sonrai Systems to $10.4 million in a case over a rival company poaching a Sonrai executive, finding that while the evidence showed the rival's behavior was reprehensible, it didn't merit the amount the jury awarded.
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May 26, 2026
Grocery chain Fred Meyer Stores Inc. and its parent company, Kroger, failed to pay workers minimum and overtime wages, denied them meal and rest breaks and manipulated their time records to systematically underpay them, according to a proposed class action removed to Washington federal court.
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May 26, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday partially upheld a lower court's preliminary injunction and class certification orders in litigation from University of California researchers against President Donald Trump, backing the reinstatement of grants terminated due to presidential orders against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives while reversing the injunction for those grants that were rescinded without explanation.
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May 26, 2026
Massachusetts-based drivers for ride-hailing apps such as Uber and Lyft have won union representation, becoming the first crop of app-based drivers in the country with a certified bargaining representative.
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May 26, 2026
McDermott Will & Schulte announced Tuesday that the firm has hired a former California assistant U.S. attorney as a Los Angeles-based employment partner following her short stint with Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC.
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May 26, 2026
The NCAA Division I Cabinet could vote in June on streamlined eligibility rules for athletes to give them five years to compete, after the cabinet discussed but did not vote on the age-based proposal in its latest meeting.
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May 26, 2026
A New Jersey Superior Court judge refused to dismiss the state's discrimination lawsuit accusing an Ironworkers local of systematically passing over Black union members for job assignments, ruling that the claims are not time-barred or preempted by federal labor law.
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May 26, 2026
The Supreme Court of North Carolina has largely revived an insurance company's lawsuit against employees who left for a rival, directing a lower court to better clarify how an adverse inference regarding a "remarkable" spoliation of evidence should impact the renewed trade secret and breach of contract claims.
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May 26, 2026
A group of female athletes told a California federal judge that attempts to eliminate certain revenue streams from the NCAA's $2.78 billion class action settlement benefits mostly male athletes while diminishing the protections for women in college sports.
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May 26, 2026
Gloucester, Massachusetts, officials were justified in bypassing a job candidate for a firefighter position based on some negative feedback, despite a "flawed" background investigation, an intermediate state appellate court said Tuesday.
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May 26, 2026
A federal judge has sided with a Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. unit in a coverage dispute over a Washington Equal Pay and Opportunities Act class action, finding that an alleged failure to disclose salary ranges in job postings does not qualify as discrimination under the restaurant operator's employment practices liability insurance policy.
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May 26, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday spurned Florida's bid to file suit alleging California and Washington state flouted federal law by allowing unauthorized immigrants to obtain commercial driver's licenses, but dissenting Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said the high court "cannot refuse to hear suits between states."
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May 26, 2026
Two former event company workers who alleged their employer shorted them on overtime pay and improperly cut managers into tip pools asked a Georgia federal court to approve a $180,000 settlement, according to a joint motion in the Northern District of Georgia.
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May 26, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed a Fourth Circuit order that had revived the immigration judges union's challenge to restrictions on their ability to speak publicly, finding the lower court abused its discretion by relying on arguments not raised by either party, and ordered further proceedings.
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May 26, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a Teamsters retiree's bid for review of the dismissal of his proposed class action alleging that union multiemployer plan trustees and advisers allowed risky investments and hefty plan management fees, leaving in place a Second Circuit decision from November.
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May 26, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to consider broadening religious protections under the First Amendment, turning away a case that could have helped religious organizations avoid lawsuits entirely or get quick appeals on constitutional autonomy rulings.
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May 26, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a Second Circuit opinion finding the National Football League's arbitration process unenforceable, in a case that sought clarity on whether district courts have authority to decide whether an arbitration process is fair.
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May 22, 2026
This past year, 10 lawyers across the country at plaintiffs' firms big and small helped secure millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for their clients, going up against powerful defendants like Google, Monsanto and the Trump administration, earning the attorneys recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2026.
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May 22, 2026
Aon Corp. was hit Friday with retirement plan mismanagement claims by a group of current and former participants who say fiduciaries' failure to remove underperforming Vanguard funds as investment options has cost their plan more than $120 million in assets.
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May 22, 2026
Lyft Inc. has asked a Connecticut federal judge to impose sanctions and block testimony from plaintiffs' expert in a wrongful death case stemming from a 2022 murder by a passenger, arguing the expert was not disclosed by the deadline and his proposed testimony is unfairly vague.