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March 31, 2026
Wash. Gov. Signs Bills Expanding Powers Of State AG
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson has signed two bills requested by the office of the state attorney general, including one aimed at enhancing its ability to demand document production and testimony in civil matters, allowing prosecutors to seek documents from elected officials and law enforcement agencies.
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March 31, 2026
Ga. County's Fire Chief Not Entitled To Overtime, Court Rules
A Georgia county fire battalion chief is not entitled to overtime under federal wage law, a federal judge ruled, finding that his salary and job duties qualified him for a statutory exemption.
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March 31, 2026
Lack Of Harm Dooms Ex-Estate Firm Partner's Bid For Notices
The founding partner of a trusts and estates law firm lost his bid to have the North Carolina Business Court order the firm to notify thousands of clients of his departure and hand over their contact information, with the judge ruling the lawyer failed to show he suffered irreparable harm.
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March 31, 2026
4th Circ. Revives Va. Worker's OT Retaliation Suit
A worker's suit accusing a production supervisor at a packaging company of firing him after he reported violations for unpaid overtime should have stayed alive, the Fourth Circuit ruled, saying a Virginia federal court erroneously ruled that he couldn't support his claim and that he fraudulently joined an in-state supervisor.
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March 31, 2026
Nurses Union Can't Force Arbitration, Mich. Hospital Says
A Michigan hospital has urged a federal court to toss a lawsuit alleging it is refusing to arbitrate claims that it removed more than $500,000 in retirement health account credits owed to registered nurses, arguing the dispute falls outside the terms of its collective bargaining agreement with the nurses union bringing the claims.
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March 30, 2026
Terror Victims' $656M Judgment Reinstated By 2nd Circ.
The Second Circuit on Monday granted a renewed motion by victims injured in some terrorist attacks in Israel and their families to reinstate their $644 million jury judgment from 2015 over the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, finding a 2019 law applies retroactively and creates jurisdiction for the trial court.
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March 30, 2026
'Orgasmic Meditation' Co. Founder Gets 9 Years In Prison
A New York federal judge Monday sentenced the founder of "orgasmic meditation" company OneTaste to nine years in prison for her role in a forced labor conspiracy, according to an announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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March 30, 2026
Justices Won't Touch Ex-CTA Worker's Deleted Text Sanction
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the appeal of a former Chicago Transit Authority employee whose retaliation lawsuit was dismissed by the Seventh Circuit as a sanction for spoiling evidence.
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March 30, 2026
'Bikini Barista' Trial Over Wages Opens In Seattle Area
Seattle-area "bikini barista" espresso stand owner Alan Tagle routinely underpaid employees, threatened to cut their hours for missed sales goals and pocketed their tips on slow days, counsel for a class of workers told a Washington state judge Monday during opening arguments in a bench trial.
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March 30, 2026
VA Continues To Spurn Union Contract Despite Court Order
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has responded to a Rhode Island federal judge's order to resume complying with a union contract by shredding the contract and appealing the order, arguing that a White House decree prevents it from reengaging with an American Federation of Government Employees local.
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March 30, 2026
Stumptown Coffee Packaging Blamed For Flight Attendant's Burns
Stumptown Coffee Corp.'s failure to address a critical flaw in its product packaging for commercial flights caused an "explosion" of scalding hot coffee on an Alaska Airlines plane that left a pregnant flight attendant with permanent scars on her chest, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in Seattle federal court.
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March 30, 2026
Justices Wary Of 'Odd' Arbitration Jurisdiction Theory
A lawyer urging the U.S. Supreme Court to find that federal courts that have sent a dispute to arbitration do not automatically have jurisdiction to confirm or vacate a subsequent award faced heavy skepticism Monday from the justices, who called his argument during oral arguments "odd" and "peculiar."
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March 30, 2026
Dems Press CFTC To Curb Gov't Employees' Event Trading
Democrats across both chambers of Congress are demanding that the agencies overseeing prediction markets and the ethics of government workers tell federal employees they can't trade on events if their jobs give them an edge.
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March 30, 2026
FCA Qui Tams Are Unconstitutional, Eli Lilly Tells Justices
The False Claims Act's whistleblower provisions are unconstitutional, drugmaker Eli Lilly has told the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to overturn a Seventh Circuit decision upholding a $183 million trial win for a whistleblower who claimed the drug company hid how much it charged for Medicaid-covered drugs.
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March 30, 2026
Former Intel Engineer Fights Trade Secret Suit
A former Intel engineer has asked a Washington federal court to dismiss a lawsuit alleging he stole nearly 18,000 files before his employment was terminated in July, saying he wasn't properly notified of the case and responded promptly when he found out about it.
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March 30, 2026
Feds Slam Unions' AI Surveillance Challenge
The federal government urged a New York federal court to toss allegations that the Trump administration is using a surveillance system to find viewpoints it doesn't like and use the threat of immigration enforcement to suppress speech, arguing the unions behind the suit lack standing to bring their claims.
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March 30, 2026
EEOC Accuses Dispensary Of Rampant Sexual Harassment
Male employees at an Illinois cannabis dispensary sexually harassed their female colleagues on a "near-daily" basis, which forced at least one woman to quit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a federal court Monday.
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March 30, 2026
General Mills Gets Lengthy Race Bias Suit Tossed, For Now
A Georgia federal judge has ordered a proposed class of General Mills factory workers who say they were subjected to years of racist abuse to rewrite and condense their complaint with the goal of avoiding the "prospect of unbridled fishing expeditions" as the suit goes on.
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March 30, 2026
Utah Expands Tax Credit For Employer-Provided Child Care
Utah expanded a corporate and individual income tax credit for employer-provided child care to apply to off-site facilities under a bill signed by the governor.
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March 30, 2026
Pretrial Inmates' Forced Labor Claims Too Individual For Class
A group of detainees who performed kitchen work in California county jail can't snag class certification in their suit accusing the county and a correctional services company of forcing them to work without pay, a federal judge ruled on Monday.
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March 30, 2026
Army Contractor Tells 4th Circ. Linguists' FCA Suit Rightly Cut
Linguists' suit accusing Global Linguist Solutions of violating the False Claims Act by performing work under U.S. Army contracts meant for small business subcontractors consists of recycled allegations that have been public for years, the joint venture told the Fourth Circuit.
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March 30, 2026
Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
The Delaware Chancery Court's docket this past week featured disputes involving globally recognized companies, high-dollar contract fights, revived claims from the state's high court and the resolution of a closely watched de-SPAC case.
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March 30, 2026
Airbus Engineer Couldn't Prove Bias In Firing, 11th Circ. Says
The Eleventh Circuit backed the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing Airbus America of bias and retaliation from a Black former manufacturing engineer, saying that even though he established a "prima facie case of race discrimination and retaliation," he didn't show the company lacked a legitimate reason for his termination.
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March 30, 2026
'Most Wanted' Whistleblower Says DOJ Can't Nix FCA Suit
A man incarcerated for defrauding the U.S. Department of Defense who was also once featured on "America's Most Wanted" urged the Fourth Circuit on Friday to revive his whistleblower complaint accusing major defense contractors of price gouging, saying the government cannot drop the suit just because it intervened as a plaintiff.
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March 30, 2026
Bakeries Can't Dodge Trial Over Drivers' Worker Status
A jury will have to determine whether Flowers Foods and two other entities misclassified two distributors as independent contractors who created their own company to deliver goods, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Monday, saying it's not clear the drivers were in business only for themselves.
Expert Analysis
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How NY Stay-Or-Pay Law Shifts Leverage Dynamics
The recent passage of New York's Trapped at Work Act reflects increasing scrutiny of stay-or-pay arrangements, but its lack of a private right of action represents a meaningful departure from other employment laws, dramatically shifting leverage from the courtroom to a state agency, says James Valentino at Clayman Rosenberg.
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H-1B Registration Tips For New Wage-Weighted Selection
Practitioners participating in this year’s H-1B visa registration, currently underway, must understand that under the new wage-weighted selection process that replaced the random lottery, the crucial first step is choosing the correct standard occupational classification, says Jimmy Lai at Lai & Turner.
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Proposed DOL Rule Could Simplify Contractor Classification
If the U.S. Department of Labor's recently proposed rule governing employee versus independent contractor classification is finalized, it would permit energy sector employers to evaluate the nature of the working relationship with a more straightforward and predictable analysis than the 2024 rule's unweighted test, say attorneys at Bracewell.
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The Cautionary Tale Of A Supply Chain Inquiry 'Made In Italy'
Legal probes into the Italian luxury fashion supply chain reflect the need for effective buy-side diligence with a variety of tools and through a variety of lenses to avoid an issue after an M&A transaction, says Jesse Silvertown at Hesparus.
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Character.AI Case Highlights Agentic AI Liability Questions
The recently settled litigation against Character Technologies Inc. provides an early case study for exploring salient legal issues related to agentic artificial intelligence, such as tort liability, strict liability, statutory liability and contractual liability, says Samuel Mitchells at Smith Gambrell.
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How DOL Rule Would Preserve App-Based Contractor Work
The U.S. Department of Labor's proposed 2026 independent contractor rule reinforces the centrality of worker autonomy and entrepreneurial opportunity that characterize many app-based arrangements, and returns to a framework that may offer increased predictability for platforms and workers alike, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.
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Opinion
Deregulation Can Solve Labor Market Woes
There is broad agreement that labor law is in need of reform, owing to few unions, slow procedures and weak remedies, and while deregulation will strike many as radical, it has worked for a variety of industries and could make competition a regular feature of the market, says Alexander MacDonald at Littler.
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Series
Volunteering With Scouts Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Serving as an assistant scoutmaster for my son’s troop reaffirmed several skills and principles crucial to lawyering — from the importance of disconnecting to the value of morality, says Michael Warren at McManis Faulkner.
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Recent Rulings Show DEI Isn't On Courts' Chopping Block
Contrary to recent narratives that workplace diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are on the verge of legal collapse, courts are applying familiar guardrails for litigating DEI-adjacent cases — requiring the right plaintiff, the right challenge and the right proof — rather than rewriting the rules on DEI, say attorneys at Krevolin Horst.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: In Court, It's About Storytelling
Law school provides doctrine, cases and hypotheticals, but when lawyers step into the courtroom, they must learn the importance of clarity, credibility, memorability and preparation — in other words, how to tell simple, effective stories, say Nicholas Steverson and Danielle Trujillo at Wheeler Trigg, and Lisa DeCaro at Courtroom Performance.
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Aligning Microsoft Tools With NYC Bar AI Recording Guidance
The New York City Bar Association’s recently issued formal opinion, providing ethical guidance on artificial intelligence-assisted recording, transcription and summarization, raises immediate questions about data governance and e-discovery for companies that use Microsoft 365 and Copilot, say Staci Kaliner, Martin Tully and John Collins at Redgrave.
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What Employers Should Know About Calif. PAGA Proposal
Recently proposed regulations concerning the Private Attorneys General Act evidence an intent by California's Labor and Workforce Development Agency to play a greater role in the prosecution of PAGA actions, including more oversight over the exhaustion notices and settlement process, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.
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FTC Focus: Antitrust Spotlight On 'Acqui-Hires,' Noncompetes
A recent Federal Trade Commission focus on labor issues, like 'acqui-hire' deals, in which only a company's workforce is acquired, and noncompetes, shows that the agency is scrutinizing these issues on a case-by-case basis, necessitating a meaningful look at these transactions, particularly in the technology and artificial intelligence industries, say attorneys at Proskauer.
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5 Different AI Systems Raise Distinct Privilege Issues
A New York federal court’s recent U.S. v. Heppner decision, holding that a defendant’s use of Claude was not privileged, only addressed one narrow artificial intelligence system, but lawyers must recognize that the spectrum of AI tools raises different confidentiality and privilege questions, says Heidi Nadel at HP.
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Miss. Race Bias Ruling Offers Cautionary Tale For Employers
A Mississippi federal court's recent decision to let a jury decide a fired worker's discrimination claims illustrates that having a manager of the same race is not necessarily a defense, that jokes can be discriminatory, and that the good faith honest belief rule doesn't always protect employers, says Robin Shea at Constangy Brooks.