The Sixth Circuit on Wednesday refused to reinstate a discrimination suit alleging the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department fired a Black female accountant because of her race, finding her performance reviews reflected continuous issues like missing work deadlines or making errors that took weeks to fix.
The Sixth Circuit on Wednesday refused to reinstate a discrimination suit alleging the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department fired a Black female accountant because of her race, finding her performance reviews reflected continuous issues like missing work deadlines or making errors that took weeks to fix.
A Washington federal judge agreed Thursday to extend a deadline for the Trump administration to make fresh determinations as to 138 public school mental health grants that the court has found were illegally canceled, but admonished the federal government for previously understating how long those reassessments would take.
Walmart prevailed Thursday over a suit from a Black former manager who said he was denied a promotion and subjected to racist harassment on the job, when a Michigan federal judge ruled he lacked evidence that he was qualified for higher roles or had endured severe mistreatment.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday backed plans from the Trump administration, state governors and PJM Interconnection to address escalating power prices amid data center-fueled increases in electricity demand, and encouraged the nation's largest grid operator to promptly submit policy proposals.
A California photographer has pushed back against the Detroit Lions' bid to dismiss his lawsuit accusing the NFL team of using photos he took of quarterback Jared Goff without permission, telling a California federal court that his lawsuit, contrary to the team's contention, belongs in the Golden State.
The Salvation Army dropped a suit seeking a court's declaration that its rehab centers are outside the National Labor Relations Board's jurisdiction after agency prosecutors, who had defended their power over the group, dropped their underlying administrative complaint.
A Michigan federal judge handed a disabled surgeon a win against two insurance companies Thursday in his suit seeking total disability benefits for life, siding with the ex-worker's argument that the insurers erred in determining that his condition was caused by sickness instead of injury and cutting off benefits.
Michigan county dispatchers can't be held responsible for the murder of a man by his mentally ill son, the Sixth Circuit ruled Thursday, finding that although the son told 911 he "might do something bad" an hour before the killing, the agency's "failure to act does not suffice."
The False Claims Act remains a powerful enforcement tool after some record verdicts and settlements in 2025, and while traditional fraud areas remain a priority, new initiatives are raising questions about its expanding application, says Veronica Nannis at Joseph Greenwald.
Opening my home to foreign exchange students makes me a better lawyer not just because prioritizing visiting high schoolers forces me to hone my organization and time management skills but also because sharing the study-abroad experience with newcomers and locals reconnects me to my community, says Alison Lippa at Nicolaides Fink.
A former Baker McKenzie associate who was sued for defamation over a series of social media posts accusing the firm's Washington, D.C., managing partner of sexual assault has brought her own lawsuit, marking the first time she publicly detailed her allegations in court records.
Shortly after former special counsel Jack Smith gave his first public congressional testimony on the Trump cases, in which he warned the rule of law should not be taken for granted, President Donald Trump said he should be prosecuted.
A former lawyer at SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's firm said Thursday that Goldstein told coworkers that the more than $960,000 in cash he brought off a flight from Hong Kong — the source of which is integral to the government's case — had come from a client.
The American Bar Association said attorneys have a limited responsibility to convey information to former clients or successor counsel that was not within the client's file, when doing so is necessary to protect a client's interests and reasonably practicable, according to a new ethics opinion.
A proposal to loosen restrictions on the use of federal criminal subpoenas would endanger and further traumatize victims of crime, most of whom lack legal representation to fight the invasive demands, victims' rights advocates told a federal rules advisory committee on Thursday.
Pennsylvania's highest court has adopted a balancing test for restricting a sitting judge's free speech outside the context of an election and, in doing so, affirmed the suspension of a state court judge who it said damaged the court's appearance of impartiality by making political posts on social media.
National litigation news outlet Courthouse News Service has voluntarily and permanently dropped claims against a Washington, D.C., Superior Court clerk and the executive officer of the D.C. courts over filing delays, with both sides agreeing to pay their own costs.
