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July 24, 2025
A Georgia longshoreman and a cargo ship owner have settled a federal lawsuit accusing the company of negligence after a gangway handrail collapse that injured the worker, according to a judge's order dismissing the case.
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July 24, 2025
Professional swimmers have reached a settlement ending their claims accusing the sport's international governing body of organizing a group boycott against an upstart league, while the league's antitrust claims against the governing body remain set for a January trial.
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July 24, 2025
The National Credit Union Administration officials who were ousted this spring by President Donald Trump took part Thursday in their first board meeting since a federal judge reinstated them just two days earlier, even as the court fight for their jobs continues.
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July 24, 2025
A New York City construction company owner was arrested on charges of failing to pay over $2.9 million in employment taxes and falsely claiming that his wife worked as one of his laborers, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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July 24, 2025
President Donald Trump has expressed support for letting large language model developers use copyrighted material for training their systems without payment, saying during the unveiling of his artificial intelligence action plan that licensing requirements would impede the technology's progress and give China an unfair advantage.
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July 24, 2025
A Louisiana federal court has granted Houston personal injury attorney Tony Buzbee's request for arbitration in a lawsuit by an injured seaman who claims the Texas lawyer and his firm bilked him out of settlement funds in a Jones Act lawsuit.
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July 24, 2025
A proposed class of naval engineers suing the nation's major military shipbuilders and contractors over an alleged no-poach wage-fixing scheme may have a new named plaintiff to bring to the case.
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July 23, 2025
The Trump administration has asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge to pause a ruling reinstating two ousted Democratic members of the National Credit Union Administration board, arguing the decision represents an "extraordinary intrusion" into presidential power and is being swiftly appealed.
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July 23, 2025
An attorney for the fired leader of the U.S. Copyright Office suggested Wednesday that President Donald Trump "sought to sideline her" to stop her from advising Congress on issues related to the use of copyrighted material for training artificial intelligence models, noting her dismissal occurred shortly after she released a pivotal report on the subject.
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July 23, 2025
The Ninth Circuit has reinstated Barrett Business Services Inc.'s claims of trade secret theft against two former employees, their wives and a competing company they started.
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July 23, 2025
A Colorado chemicals company claims in Colorado federal court that a former employee and his new employer are using trade secrets to steal customers in violation of the ex-employee's confidentiality agreement.
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July 23, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump could fire three members of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, even though a Maryland federal judge found that the president lacked authority to remove them without cause.
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July 23, 2025
The Fourth Circuit said the Defense Intelligence Agency is immune from a polygraph examiner's suit alleging an employee's negligence caused her to get into a car accident outside the agency's offices, affirming a Virginia federal judge's dismissal of her suit.
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July 22, 2025
An engineer who worked at a tech company admitted in California federal court to stealing trade secrets regarding nuclear missile detection used by the U.S. government after previously seeking to help the People's Republic of China with its military research, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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July 22, 2025
A D.C. federal judge on Tuesday held that President Donald Trump broke the law when he fired two Democratic credit union regulators, finding that the members must remain on the National Credit Union Administration's board and can only be removed before their terms are up for cause.
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July 22, 2025
One of the Federal Trade Commission Democrats who was removed from the agency before her term was up by the Trump administration will not be returning to her seat just yet after the D.C. Circuit agreed to put the order mandating her return to work on hold.
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July 22, 2025
House lawmakers on Tuesday criticized the U.S. Department of Labor's employee benefits subagency for sharing information from enforcement investigations with plaintiffs attorneys representing benefit plan participants, with some lawmakers calling on Congress to pass new legislation to curb the practice.
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July 22, 2025
A Massachusetts federal court refused to rule that an insurer has no duty to defend or indemnify a staffing agency and its produce distributor client in an underlying worker injury suit, saying a genuine dispute of material fact exists over whether the worker qualifies as an "employee" under the policies.
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July 21, 2025
The Trump administration on Monday asked the D.C. Circuit to pause a Thursday order restoring a fired Federal Trade Commission Democrat's job, arguing that the ruling defies recent U.S. Supreme Court orders staying similar reinstatements at other independent agencies.
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July 21, 2025
A Miami attorney urged a New York federal judge to toss Sean "Diddy" Combs' $50 million defamation suit alleging she perpetuated false claims of him sexually assaulting inebriated celebrities and minors on recorded video, saying the complaint fails to state a claim or back up accusations with facts.
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July 21, 2025
A Massachusetts federal judge hearing a free-speech case stemming from the arrests of pro-Palestinian student activists said Monday he is grappling with whether immigration officials were carrying out an official Trump administration policy or using their own discretion to implement a broader set of priorities within the law.
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July 21, 2025
Employer-side labor and employment firm Fisher Phillips has continued its growth in Texas with the addition of a partner in Houston from Reed Smith LLP, the firm said Monday.
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July 18, 2025
Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2025, our list of more than 150 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
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July 18, 2025
In a published decision that refers to the Federal Arbitration Act as "not a triumph of legislative draftsmanship," the Fourth Circuit on Friday overturned the enforcement of an arbitral award favoring health insurance service providers that is being challenged over an arbitrator's alleged conflict of interest.
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July 18, 2025
A group of former employees and contractors, as well as their family members, have filed suit in Georgia federal court over allegations they were exposed to dangerous and harmful levels of mercury at Olin Corp.'s Augusta, Georgia, facility from 1965 forward.