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April 01, 2025
Fired NLRB Member Urges Full DC Circ. To Avert 'Crisis'
Fired National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox urged the full D.C. Circuit to rethink a panel ruling staying her reinstatement, saying Tuesday that en banc review is "urgently necessary" after a majority enabled governmentwide chaos by rewriting U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
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April 01, 2025
Bloomberg Campaign Scores Partial Win In Unpaid OT Suit
Michael Bloomberg's 2020 presidential campaign organization attained a partial win in a suit accusing it of not paying field organizers minimum wage, a New York federal judge ruled, saying that federal law doesn't apply to the campaign and certain state law claims were rootless.
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April 01, 2025
6th Circ. Lets Feds End Whistleblower's NASA Contractor Suit
The Sixth Circuit stood by a lower court's decision to let the federal government intervene and successfully seek dismissal for a whistleblower's False Claims Act suit against a NASA contractor, applying a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court precedent to back the government's recent tear of dismissal bids in FCA cases.
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April 01, 2025
NC Atty Gets $775K Fee For Multistate Wage Verdict
A North Carolina federal judge has awarded $775,000 in attorney fees to the workers of an Apple-affiliated repair company following their six-figure win in a multistate wage class action over back wages and damages.
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April 01, 2025
Seattle Schools Must Face Teacher's Retaliation Lawsuit
A Washington state appeals court breathed new life into a Seattle public schoolteacher's suit claiming she was punished for reporting that elementary school personnel mistreated students of color, faulting a trial court's conclusion that she hadn't done enough to satisfy presuit obligations.
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April 01, 2025
AFL-CIO Backs Oregon's Cannabis Labor Peace Law
The AFL-CIO has jumped into a legal battle to defend against a constitutional challenge seeking to block implementation of a voter-approved Oregon state law that requires cannabis businesses to have labor peace agreements.
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April 01, 2025
Uber Case Shouldn't Head To PA Justices, 3rd Circ. Told
The Third Circuit has already made clear which standard applies to determine whether workers are independent contractors or employees under Pennsylvania law, said the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, backing Uber's arguments to not send a misclassification case to the state justices.
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April 01, 2025
Former O'Hagan Meyer Partner Says Firm Owes Final Bonus
A former O'Hagan Meyer partner says the firm stiffed him out of a final $71,000 bonus upon his departure in 2022. He's seeking triple damages under Massachusetts' wage law.
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April 01, 2025
Counterclaim Against Paralegal Must Proceed, Firm Says
A counterclaim accusing a paralegal of bringing an unpaid overtime wages suit against an El Paso law firm in order to extort it for money should stay in play, the firm told a Texas federal court, saying its counterclaim is sufficiently linked to the former employee's litigation.
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March 31, 2025
SpaceX Says It's Too Soon To Transfer Battle With NLRB
SpaceX urged a Texas federal court to vacate a renewed order making California the location for the aerospace company's lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board's structure, saying conditions the Fifth Circuit imposed for renewing a bid for a transfer after blocking it in August haven't been met.
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March 31, 2025
9th Circ. Won't Stay Injunction On Transgender Troop Ban
A Ninth Circuit panel on Monday denied the federal government's bid for an emergency stay that would have allowed the U.S. Department of Defense to move forward with the Trump administration's ban on transgender military service following a Washington federal judge's decision to block the prohibition last week.
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March 31, 2025
Trump Picks Boyden Gray Attorney For Top DOL Lawyer Role
President Donald Trump on Monday nominated Jonathan Berry of Boyden Gray PLLC to be solicitor of labor, the U.S. Department of Labor's top lawyer.
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March 31, 2025
Former Stimlabs Exec Must Face Trade Secrets Claims
A former biomedical technology company executive must face claims that she absconded with thousands of internal files containing valuable product information in the days and weeks leading up to her ouster last year, a Georgia federal judge ruled.
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March 31, 2025
Apple Beats Suit From Actor Who Refused COVID Shot
A California appellate court held Friday that Apple Studios had the right to pull an offer for actor Brent Sexton after he refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19, ruling that a lower court should've thrown out the actor's suit.
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March 31, 2025
Federal Worker Union Challenges Trump Order Gutting CBAs
The National Treasury Employees Union sued on Monday to block portions of President Donald Trump's recent executive order ending collective bargaining at a number of federal agencies where its members work, saying the directive amounts to unlawful "political retribution" for the union's legal advocacy against Trump's agenda.
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March 31, 2025
Alcoa Retirees, Unions Win Block On Health Benefits Cutoff
Aluminum producer Alcoa USA Corp. must provide lifetime healthcare benefits to a group of retirees who were represented by unions, an Indiana federal judge ruled, greenlighting an injunction that allows class members to retroactively seek payments for costs.
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March 31, 2025
Hegseth Wants Single Fitness Standard For Combat Roles
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered military leaders to revise their physical fitness standards for service members in combat roles, saying the standards need to be "sex-neutral," with no exceptions for current troops.
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March 31, 2025
US DOT Taps Quinn Emanuel To Probe FAA Diversity Hiring
The U.S. Department of Transportation said Monday that it has hired Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP to investigate claims that the Federal Aviation Administration is continuing to prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion when hiring air traffic controllers in defiance of the Trump administration's sweeping anti-DEI policy.
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March 31, 2025
Minimum Wage Orders Blocked For H-2A Farmworkers In Wash.
The U.S. Department of Labor may not approve minimum wage job orders for migrant farmworkers in Washington state, a federal judge has ruled, saying seasonal farmworkers with H-2A visas must receive paychecks that don't depress agricultural wages in the area.
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March 31, 2025
NY Law Allows Ex-Thompson Hine Atty's Harassment Suit
A former Thompson Hine LLP income partner who accused the firm of allowing a "toxic boys club" to flourish at its New York office may continue to pursue the bulk of her harassment claims, a federal judge ruled Monday, finding that a New York law ending forced arbitration of sexual harassment claims invalidates an arbitration agreement.
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March 31, 2025
Va. Judge Halts Firings Of Intelligence Officers In DEI Posts
A Virginia federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from following through with terminating intelligence officers assigned to diversity, equity and inclusion roles in the CIA and U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
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March 31, 2025
Firm Says Ex-Fin. Adviser Can't Arbitrate Trade Secrets Claims
A Connecticut financial firm told a state court that an ex-adviser can't arbitrate claims that he swiped trade secrets and formed his own competing company, citing the "plain language" of his employment agreement.
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March 31, 2025
School District Argues To Toss Ex-Athletic Director's Bias Suit
The former athletic director for a Western Pennsylvania school district failed to show the connection between her second pregnancy and her firing a month after returning from leave, the school district said in a motion to dismiss the ex-employee's federal lawsuit Monday.
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March 31, 2025
Levi Strauss 'Sandbagged' By Bias Case Witness, Court Told
Levi Strauss urged the California federal judge overseeing a former marketing director's sex-discrimination suit to exclude the woman's therapist from testifying at trial about the alleged emotional distress she suffered while employed by the denim manufacturer, saying Monday that the company was "sandbagged" at the last minute with the witness.
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March 31, 2025
Doc Loses Redo On Claims Hospital Lies Fueled Murder Case
A Michigan federal judge has dismissed a former Ohio physician's second attempt at suing the parent company of his ex-employer on allegations it fed prosecutors lies about his opioid prescribing practices that led to him being charged with 25 counts of murder, saying the lawsuit didn't fix the gaps left in the first case.
Expert Analysis
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Law Firm Executive Orders Create A Legal Ethics Minefield
Recent executive orders targeting BigLaw firms create ethical dilemmas — and raise the specter of civil or criminal liability — for the government attorneys tasked with implementing them and for the law firms that choose to make agreements with the administration, say attorneys at Buchalter.
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NLRB Firing May Need Justices' Input On Removal Power
President Donald Trump's unprecedented removal of National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox spurred a lawsuit that is sure to be closely watched, as it may cause the U.S. Supreme Court to reexamine a 1935 precedent that has limited the president's removal powers, say attorneys at Kelley Drye.
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Trade Policy Shifts Raise Hurdles For Gov't And Cos. Alike
The persistent tension between the Trump administration's fast-moving and aggressive trade policies and the compliance-heavy nature of the trade industry creates implementation challenges for both the business community and the government, says Sara Schoenfeld at Kamerman.
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Firms Must Embrace Alternative Billing Models Or Fall Behind
As artificial intelligence tools eliminate inefficiencies and the Big Four accounting firms enter the legal market, law firms that pivot from the entrenched billable hour model to outcomes-based pricing will see a distinct competitive advantage, says attorney William Brewer.
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How Attorneys Can Master The Art Of On-Camera Presence
As attorneys are increasingly presented with on-camera opportunities, they can adapt their traditional legal skills for video contexts — such as virtual client meetings, marketing content or media interviews — by understanding the medium and making intentional adjustments, says Kerry Barrett.
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Series
Baseball Fantasy Camp Makes Me A Better Lawyer
With six baseball fantasy experiences under my belt, I've learned time and again that I didn't make the wrong career choice, but I've also learned that baseball lessons are life lessons, and I'm a better lawyer for my time at St. Louis Cardinals fantasy camp, says Scott Felder at Wiley.
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DOJ Immigration Playbook May Take Cues From A 2017 Case
A record criminal resolution with a tree trimming company accused of knowingly employing unauthorized workers in 2017 may provide clues as to how the U.S. Department of Justice’s immigration crackdown will touch American companies, which should prepare now for potential enforcement actions, says Jonathan Porter at Husch Blackwell.
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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: From Fed. Prosecutor To BigLaw
Making the jump from government to private practice is no small feat, but, based on my experience transitioning to a business-driven environment after 15 years as an assistant U.S. attorney, it can be incredibly rewarding and help you become a more versatile lawyer, says Michael Beckwith at Dickinson Wright.
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How Justices Rule On Straight Bias May Shift Worker Suits
Following oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, in which a heterosexual woman sued her employer for sexual orientation discrimination, the forthcoming decision may create a perfect storm for employers amid recent attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion, say attorneys at Proskauer.
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Rebuttal
6 Reasons Why Arbitration Offers Equitable Resolutions
Contrary to a recent Law360 guest article, arbitration provides numerous benefits to employees, consumers and businesses alike, ensuring fair and efficient dispute resolution without the excessive fees, costs and delays associated with traditional litigation, say attorneys at Proskauer.
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PG&E Win Boosts Employers' Defamation Defense
A California appeals court's recent Hearn v. PG&E ruling, reversing a $2 million verdict against PG&E related to an ex-employee’s retaliation claims, provides employers with a stronger defense against defamation claims tied to termination, but also highlights the need for fairness and diligence in internal investigations and communications, say attorneys at Kaufman Dolowich.
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Jurisdiction Argument In USAID Dissent Is Up For Debate
A dissent refuting the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent order directing the U.S. Agency for International Development to pay $2 billion in frozen foreign aid argued that claims relating to already-completed government contract work belong in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims – answering an important question, but with a debatable conclusion, says Steven Gordon at Holland & Knight.
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How Importers Can Minimize FCA Risks Of Tariff Mitigation
False Claims Act risks are inherent in many tariff mitigation strategies, making it important for importers to implement best practices to identify and report potential violations of import regulations before they escalate, says Samuel Finkelstein at LMD Trade Law.
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Explaining CFPB's Legal Duties Under The Dodd-Frank Act
While only Congress can actually eradicate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Trump administration has sought to significantly alter the agency's operations, so it's an apt time to review the minimum baseline of activities that Congress requires of the CFPB in Title X of the Dodd-Frank Act, say attorneys at Bradley Arant.
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Firms Still Have Lateral Market Advantage, But Risks Persist
Partner and associate mobility data from the fourth quarter of 2024 shows that we’re in a new, stable era of lateral hiring where firms have the edge, but leaders should proceed cautiously, looking beyond expected revenue and compensation analyses for potential risks, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.