Foley & Lardner Can't Dodge Pro-Palestinian Atty's Bias Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A Chicago federal judge on Monday denied Foley & Lardner LLP's bid for an early win against claims brought by a former summer associate who said discrimination led to the firm's decision to rescind a job offer after she publicly supported Palestinians amid Israel's war with Hamas.

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Ex-Calif. Judge Takes Aim At Sex Assault Charge

By James Mills

A former California judge said a count of a federal indictment accusing him of sexual assault should be tossed since the alleged victim viewed him as a friend.

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Ill. Jury Rejects Ex-CTA Worker's Vax Bias Claims

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal jury sided with the Chicago Transit Authority on Monday over a former employee's claim that he was illegally terminated for noncompliance with the agency's COVID-19 vaccine mandate after the agency flatly rejected his religion-based exemption request without meaningfully trying to accommodate it.

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High Court Won't Review Social Security Judge's Removal

By Chart Riggall

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review a Federal Circuit decision upholding the removal of a Georgia-based Social Security judge who was accused of on-the-job misconduct and shoddy work.

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Thousands Of Kaiser Nurses Strike In California And Hawaii

By Emily Brill

Kaiser Permanente nurses walked off the job Monday at more than two dozen hospitals and clinics in California and Hawaii, adding about 30,000 workers to the swelling ranks of healthcare employees on strike across the country.

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NJ Court Says Security Co.'s Harassment Suit Needs 2nd Look

By Grace Elletson

A New Jersey state appeals panel ruled Monday that despite a valid arbitration pact, a worker who said security logistics company Brink's failed to take action when colleagues called her gendered slurs may still be entitled to her day in court.

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NJ Court Revives UAW's Casino Smoking Law Challenge

By Emily Brill

A New Jersey state appeals court revived a challenge to a state law allowing people to smoke in casinos Monday, giving the United Auto Workers another chance to argue that the law harms the casino employees it represents by exposing them to secondhand smoke.

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Federal Contractor Opexus Sued Over EEOC Data Breach

By Jared Foretek

D.C.-based government software contractor Opexus is facing a class action alleging that its negligence allowed two former employees — both of whom had been convicted for hacking previously — to copy more than 1,800 U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission files onto USB drives and take the data.

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Ex-Citi Exec Says Rampant Misogyny Was A 'Price Too Steep'

By Lauren Berg

A former high-ranking director at Citigroup says she was "debased and humiliated" by false workplace rumors that she pursued sexual relations with a superior in order to secure a promotion, alleging in a lawsuit filed in New York federal court on Monday that persistent misogynistic culture at the investment bank forced her out of a job.

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Tampa Bay Lightning Owners Face Racial Discrimination Suit

By David Minsky

A Black ticketing staffer for the Tampa Bay Lightning has faced retaliation and a hostile work environment because of his race, he alleged in a federal lawsuit against the hockey team's ownership group.

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School District Settles Suit Over Trans Student Name Policy

By Grace Elletson

An Indiana school district struck a deal to end a suit from a Christian former music teacher who said requiring him to call transgender students by their preferred names violated his religious beliefs, about six months after the Seventh Circuit revived the case.

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H-2A Truck Drivers Seek Collective Certification In OT Suit

By Irene Spezzamonte

A Colorado company subjects all its tractor-trailer drivers to the same illegal policy of considering them overtime-exempt under federal law, a group of migrant workers said, urging a Colorado federal court to greenlight a collective.

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Geico Pays $900K Settlement To End Call Center OT Suits

By Irene Spezzamonte

Geico will pay $900,000 to settle several suits, all accusing the insurance company of not paying call center workers for preshift and postshift work, after a Georgia federal judge gave the deal final approval.

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Pet Treat Maker Will Pay $975K To End Donning, Doffing Row

By Benjamin Morse

A pet product manufacturer has agreed to pay $975,000 to resolve a proposed class and collective action alleging the company failed to pay its employees for the time they spent putting on and removing personal protective equipment, according to settlement papers filed in Colorado federal court.

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9th Circ. Pauses Discovery Order In UFC Wage Suits

By Benjamin Morse

A Ninth Circuit panel temporarily paused a Nevada federal court's discovery order in wage suppression lawsuits against UFC after the mixed martial arts organization said the order violated attorney-client privilege and the First Amendment.

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Colo. Staffing Co. Must Face Nurses' Strike Pay Suit

By Benjamin Morse

A staffing company cannot escape a lawsuit that nearly 40 nurses brought alleging they were not properly paid while temporarily working at Kaiser Permanente facilities in California during a 2023 strike, a Colorado federal magistrate judge has ruled, finding the healthcare workers sufficiently backed up their allegations.

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Colo. Clinic To Pay $1.2M To End NLRB's Doc Firing Case

By Braden Campbell

Five doctors who sought to unionize their Colorado health center will share in $1.2 million after a National Labor Relations Board official approved a deal ending a case alleging that the chain fired them for organizing, the agency announced Monday.

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DOL Asks 3rd Circ. To Back Siemens' 401(k) Forfeiture Suit Exit

By Kellie Mejdrich

The U.S. Labor Department supported Siemens Corp.'s request that the Third Circuit affirm the dismissal of a proposed class action alleging the technology company's use of millions in forfeited 401(k) funds violated federal benefits law, agreeing with a lower federal court that the allegations reached beyond ERISA's scope.

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Court Urged To Resist Apple's Transfer Bid In IP, RICO Suit

By Theresa Schliep

Fintiv Inc. has hit back at Apple's request that a Georgia federal court either dismiss or transfer its trade secrets and racketeering case against the tech giant to Texas federal court, arguing that moving the case isn't appropriate "just because Apple likes a particular judge."

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Judge Won't Block Bombing Evidence From Fluor Fraud Trial

By Madeline Lyskawa

A South Carolina federal judge declined for now Fluor Corp.'s request to block all evidence and testimony related to a suicide bombing at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan and employee retaliation from an upcoming trial over accusations that the company overcharged the military.

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Suit Over Fatal Fire Can Go To Philippines, Conn. Justices Say

By Brian Steele

The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Monday that a trial court conducted the right assessment in deciding that a wrongful death suit over a devastating call center fire belonged in the Philippines, in a defeat for the estate administrator for 29 people who were killed.

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What A Calif. Mileage Tax Would Mean For Employers

California is considering implementing a mileage tax that would likely trigger existing state laws requiring employers to reimburse employees for work-related driving, creating a new mandatory business expense with significant bottom-line implications for employers, says Eric Fox at Ogletree.

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Adapting To Private Practice: 5 Tips From Ex-SEC Unit Chief

My move to private practice has reaffirmed my belief in the value of adaptability, collaboration and strategic thinking — qualities that are essential not only for successful client outcomes, but also for sustained professional satisfaction, says Dabney O’Riordan at Fried Frank.

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Law Student Recruiting Moves Further Off Campus

By Emma Cueto

About four-fifths of law school summer associate recruiting in 2025 happened through employer-sponsored channels, as opposed to more traditional law school-sponsored channels, with recruiting also happening increasingly early, according to research unveiled Monday by the National Association for Law Placement.

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Fla. Bar Clears Gaetz Despite US House Ethics Report

By Courtney Bublé

The Florida Bar has decided to not discipline former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who was briefly President Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, despite the House ethics committee's findings that Gaetz regularly paid for sex, including with a minor.

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Texas Law Firm-Linked Plane Crashes In Maine With Fatalities

By Lynn LaRowe

A private plane connected to Texas-based litigation firm Arnold & Itkin LLP overturned and caught fire Sunday night as it attempted to take off from a Maine airport, killing at least six people on board, according to authorities and public records.

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Indiana Judge Was Shot Through Front Door, Cop Says

By Hailey Konnath

An Indiana Superior Court judge and his wife were shot by a man standing on their front porch, through their closed front door, according to an affidavit, which noted that the suspected shooter was connected to a man with pending charges in the judge's courtroom.

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Minn. Judge Probes Limits Of ICE Enforcement Actions

By Ganesh Setty

A Minnesota federal judge on Monday considered whether to preliminarily block the Trump administration from sending thousands of immigration enforcement officers to the state, questioning if the surge is a coercive federal act in violation of state sovereignty.

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Full 3rd Circ. Passes On Alina Habba DQ Challenge

By Carla Baranauckas

The Third Circuit on Monday declined to reconsider its decision blocking Alina Habba from serving as acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey, denying the Justice Department's petition for rehearing and leaving intact a decision that sharply curtailed the government's use of creative maneuvers to install interim federal prosecutors.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court wrapped up the week with a slate of high-stakes deal challenges, governance rulings and oversight decisions, including an emergency bid to block a $10.9 billion bank merger, a state Supreme Court reversal reshaping stockholder agreement litigation and a major opinion allowing sexual misconduct oversight claims to proceed.

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