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September 24, 2025
A Rhode Island federal judge dismissed an ex-Amtrak employee's suit claiming the company illegally rolled back medical care reimbursement benefits that the rail service said it mistakenly granted him in retirement, finding he wasn't entitled to the extra credits under the plan's terms.
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September 23, 2025
A former provost is suing the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's board of trustees in state court, alleging the board conducted last-minute hiring deliberations over a multimillion-dollar contract for legendary football coach Bill Belichick in an unlawfully secret meeting.
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September 23, 2025
The U.S. government and senior military officers urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a veteran's attempt to revive state-based injury claims against a defense contractor, warning that doing so would disrupt military effectiveness and intrude into federal authority.
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September 23, 2025
The Trump administration told a D.C. federal court that it had the authority to remove Shira Perlmutter as head of the U.S. Copyright Office, saying her suit over her firing seeks "sweeping remedies" she isn't entitled to.
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September 22, 2025
A former Baker McKenzie tax associate who has flooded social media with allegations that she was sexually assaulted by the leader of the international law firm's D.C. office is now facing a defamation lawsuit accusing her of "trolling" the firm with false claims.
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September 22, 2025
A former Anadarko Petroleum project manager settled his lawsuit claiming he was unlawfully denied severance benefits when he resigned following the oil and gas company's 2019 acquisition by Occidental Petroleum, according to a Monday filing in Colorado federal court.
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September 22, 2025
The Connecticut Employees' Review Board has asked an appellate court not to rehear a fired tax attorney's unsuccessful appeal en banc, arguing that she has failed to show any fatal flaws in a three-judge panel's decision against her.
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September 22, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that President Donald Trump can fire Democratic Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter without cause, and it agreed to reconsider limits on the president's authority to remove members of the FTC.
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September 19, 2025
A University of Las Vegas defensive lineman won his bid to play another season when a Nevada federal judge ruled that the NCAA's eligibility rules are subject to antitrust scrutiny because the ability of athletes to get paid for their performance makes the restrictions commercial in nature.
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September 19, 2025
Two beneficiaries under separate Prudential life insurance policies issued for an aviation company's pilots told a Washington federal court that they were wrongly denied benefits after their partners died in a plane crash, arguing an "aviation exclusion" either doesn't apply or should be stricken altogether.
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September 19, 2025
A Berkshire Hathaway unit has no duty to defend a group of cannabis companies in an underlying suit over a worker's death, the insurer told a Florida federal court Friday, arguing that the suit does not allege that the companies were the employers of the worker as required to trigger coverage.
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September 19, 2025
A Connecticut appeals court on Friday refused to uproot an arbiter's $691,000 attorney fee award in favor of WorldQuant Predictive Technologies LLC and against its ousted CEO, agreeing the arbiter neither exceeded the scope of the questions presented to him nor manifestly disregarded the law.
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September 19, 2025
Air charter broker XO Global sued its competitor Jet365 in Miami, claiming the rival bribed a onetime XO sales employee to steal confidential business information that allowed Jet365 to redirect millions of dollars' worth of charter flights to itself.
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September 18, 2025
The Georgia Court of Appeals has revived a woman's wrongful death suit over her son's accidental shooting while in training as a security guard, overturning a lower court's ruling that her claims were preempted by a liability release in a workers' compensation settlement.
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September 18, 2025
A lawsuit by the former president of the National Rifle Association alleging breach of contract against the gun rights organization was split by a federal judge Thursday, with Florida state law claims being kept in the Sunshine State and its contract-related claim moved to Virginia.
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September 18, 2025
A Washington federal judge has barred an artificial intelligence startup's former chief technology officer from using trade secrets to hurt the company, making disparaging statements about it or contacting the company's current or prospective customers.
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September 18, 2025
The liquidation trustee for bankrupt medical staffing company American Physician Partners has told a Delaware bankruptcy judge that former top executives drained the company with millions in unauthorized bonus payments and "made-up" consultation fees.
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September 18, 2025
A Texas federal judge has sent two conspiracy lawsuits brought by clients of Texas personal injury attorney Tony Buzbee against Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter's company Roc Nation and his attorneys back to state court in Houston, finding the court lacks jurisdiction in the case despite the defendant's argument that law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP was "improperly joined."
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September 18, 2025
Jackson Lewis PC announced Thursday that it has hired two former Stokes Wagner attorneys as principals in two of its California offices to bolster the employment law services it offers its clients.
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September 18, 2025
The Eleventh Circuit seemed unpersuaded Thursday by a push to overturn MetLife's denial of death benefits to a worker who died days after she broke her leg and ankle exiting a vehicle, with judges zeroing in on plan language that barred coverage when contributing illnesses were involved.
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September 18, 2025
The federal government has asked the D.C. Circuit to rethink its decision to temporarily reinstate the head of the U.S. Copyright Office who was fired by President Donald Trump, saying the president has the authority to remove the copyright chief because the position is part of the executive branch.
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September 18, 2025
The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would not push back oral arguments for two cases up to be heard next month, despite the state Attorney General's Office's concerns that their counsel wouldn't be able to participate because of a potential government shutdown.
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September 18, 2025
President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to allow him to move forward with firing Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook, escalating a fight over presidential removal power that will test the boundaries of the central bank's traditional independence.
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September 18, 2025
An IRS official serving as head of the agency's Large Business and International Division who was placed on leave accused the agency of unlawfully leaking information on her employment status to news outlets including Fox News and Bloomberg, according to a complaint filed Thursday in D.C. federal court.
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September 17, 2025
Software company NCR Corp. asked the full Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday to examine a pension payout fight with former executives in the wake of a three-judge panel's ruling last month that the company can't issue lump-sum payments to plan participants as alternatives to promised life annuities.