Full DC Circ. Lifts Pause On NLRB, MSPB Reinstatements

By Tim Ryan

The full D.C. Circuit on Monday lifted a March panel decision pausing the reinstatement of National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board members that President Donald Trump fired, saying U.S. Supreme Court precedent blessing limitations on the president's ability to fire agency officials still stands.

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Litigation Firms Back Perkins Coie In Suit Over Trump Order

By Jake Maher

A slew of midsize and small litigation firms took up Perkins Coie LLP's cause in its legal battle against an executive order from President Donald Trump targeting the BigLaw firm, arguing Monday in an amicus brief that the order is "anathema" to the justice system.

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High Court Won't Hear Case On Employee Status Of Inmates

By Daniela Porat

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to review a Fourth Circuit opinion finding that inmates working at a Baltimore County, Maryland, recycling facility might be covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act and entitled to minimum wages.

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Littler Wants Out Of Fired Tech Exec's Bias Suit

By Grace Elletson

Littler Mendelson has asked to be cut loose from a former tech company executive's suit claiming the firm and the business worked together to retaliate against her for complaining that her boss made bigoted comments, arguing to a New York federal court that it can't be held liable for the legal advice it provided.

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Mass. Firm Prevails Over Ex-Attys In Stolen Client Files Saga

By Emily Sawicki

A Massachusetts appeals panel has found that a law firm may recoup damages from its former attorneys who are accused of smuggling out client files to start a new shop while still employed, the latest ruling in a yearslong legal battle that has played out across the state's trial, appellate and supreme courts.

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GOP Lawmaker Floats Bill To Block PWFA Abortion Rules

By Grace Elletson

A Republican representative introduced legislation that aims to block U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulations that would require employers to accommodate workers' abortions under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.

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Former Workers Say X Corp. Refuses To Arbitrate Their Claims

By Celeste Bott

A group of former Twitter employees is trying to force the company now known as X to arbitrate the workers' challenges to allegedly unlawful actions taken after Elon Musk's acquisition of the platform, claiming the social media giant is preventing their cases from moving forward by refusing to pay the full arbitration fees.

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Woody Allen Resolves Private Chef's Military Leave Suit

By Emmy Freedman

Woody Allen struck a deal with his former private chef to resolve his suit accusing the filmmaker of abruptly firing him after he took time off to participate in military exercises as a member of the U.S. Army Reserve, a filing in New York federal court said.

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6th Circ. Says Job Performance Dooms Ex-Exec's Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

The Sixth Circuit backed security company Idemia's defeat of a former executive's lawsuit claiming he was forced out because he was over 50 and undergoing prostate cancer treatment, finding Monday he couldn't overcome the explanation that his boss had lost confidence in his leadership abilities.

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Texas County Settles Atty's Disability Suit On Eve Of Trial

By Irene Spezzamonte

A Texas federal court tossed an attorney's suit accusing Harris County, Texas, of failing to accommodate his leave requests and instead punishing him with a negative performance review after the parties said they reached a deal ahead of trial.

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Ga. Management Co. Fired Worker Over Tremors, Suit Says

By Kelcey Caulder

Crisp Inc., an Atlanta-based business management company, was sued Monday in federal court by a former client success manager who alleged she was fired for asking to work from home due to psychogenic tremors.

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Drivers Say Amazon Attys Covertly Contacted Class Members

By Emmy Freedman

Amazon's attorneys should be sanctioned for coercing potential collective members in a wage and hour case to provide testimony without properly filling them in on the litigation, delivery drivers told a Washington federal court.

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Snyder's-Lance Looks To Ax Proposed Class Wage Claims

By Emily Brill

The company that makes Snyder's pretzels asked a North Carolina federal judge Monday to deny a Pennsylvania employee's bid to represent a class of workers from 12 states in a wage lawsuit, arguing she can't sue under the laws of the 11 states she doesn't live or work in.

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Ohio Hospital Illegally Conducted Mass Layoffs, Workers Say

By Emmy Freedman

An Ohio hospital abruptly laid off more than 100 workers without notice and failed to pay many of those employees their final paychecks, a proposed class action filed in federal court said.

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9th Circ. Says Teamsters Didn't Taint UPS Election

By Emily Brill

Teamsters representatives didn't taint the results of a UPS union representation election by chatting with workers in a warehouse parking lot while the vote went on inside, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Monday, saying the representatives' "brief conversations with three voters … did not constitute objectionable electioneering or voter intimidation."

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NJ Panel Upholds Nix Of Police Unions' Retroactive Pay Suit

By Beverly Banks

Two New Jersey police unions couldn't convince a state appeals court that Atlantic City and the state owed retroactive raises to officers, an appellate panel ruled Monday, finding a law focused on assisting municipalities with financial troubles supplants agreements about wage increases and promotions.

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​​​​​​​AFGE Demands Halt To Homeland Security's CBA Termination

By Beverly Banks

The American Federation of Government Employees and one of its affiliates requested an injunction to block U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's move to end a collective bargaining agreement covering Transportation Security Administration employees, accusing the Trump administration of retaliating against the union.

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Grocers Say Colo. AG Can't Fish For More 'No-Poach' Claims

By Thy Vo

Kroger and Albertsons have accused Colorado's attorney general of going on a "fishing expedition" as they wait for a ruling on a claim that the grocers brokered an illegal "no-poach" agreement during a 2022 grocery store strike, in a motion asking a Colorado state court to quash document requests into a February strike.

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Whole Foods To Settle Bonus Manipulation Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Whole Foods has agreed to resolve a lawsuit claiming the grocery chain rigged an employee bonus program to reduce payouts to workers, according to a filing in D.C. federal court.

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Denver Builder Says Ex-Employee Stole Info For Competitor

By Isaac Monterose

A full-service general building contractor has accused a former employee and an industry rival in Colorado state court of using stolen confidential business information to make a competitive bid for a 2025 "large scale" Colorado project that's anticipated to create more than $20 million in revenue.

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Ex-Exec Says Pot Tracking Co. Fired Him For Whistleblowing

By Sam Reisman

A former executive at Metrc, the company that provides product tracking services for a majority of U.S. regulated cannabis markets, has alleged in a new federal lawsuit that he was fired for speaking out about the company's business practices.

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Morgan Lewis Employment Pro Joins Ogletree's DC Office

By Christine DeRosa

Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has grown its offerings in Washington, D.C., with the addition of a former National Labor Relations Board attorney who joins from Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP.

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Pierson Ferdinand Grows In Ariz. With Fennemore Craig Atty

By Tracey Read

Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced Monday that it has formally entered the Arizona market by adding a former Fennemore Craig PC director to its roster of Phoenix-based partners.

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Running A Compliant DEI Program After EEOC, DOJ Guidance

Following recent guidance from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice that operationalized the Trump administration's focus on ending so-called illegal DEI, employers don't need to eliminate DEI programs, but they must ensure that protected characteristics are not considered in employment decisions, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

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Law School's Missed Lessons: Be An Indispensable Associate

While law school teaches you to research, write and think critically, it often overlooks the professional skills you will need to make yourself an essential team player when transitioning from a summer to full-time associate, say attorneys at Stinson.

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Congressional Dems Probe Trump's Actions Against BigLaw

By Courtney Bublé

A pair of top congressional Democrats wrote to the White House and six major law firms over the weekend seeking more information about deals that multiple BigLaw firms have reached with the Trump administration and the possible fallout.

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Brown Rudnick Inks $8M Deal With Guo Ch. 11 Trustee

By Alex Wittenberg

Brown Rudnick LLP has agreed to pay nearly $8 million in a deal with the trustee overseeing Chinese exile Miles Guo's Chapter 11 case in Connecticut to settle potential claims tied to the law firm's onetime work for the convicted fraudster.

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Holland & Knight Lands 8-Atty Seward & Kissel Maritime Team

By Rose Krebs

Holland & Knight LLP announced Monday that it has added an eight-person team from Seward & Kissel LLP to bolster its asset finance group and enhance its efforts to steer clients through key shipping financing and maritime issues.

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Justices Remove Bar On Venezuelan Removals

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled the Trump administration can move forward with its removal of alleged Venezuelan gang members from the United States under the Alien Enemies Act, vacating a D.C. federal judge's order that had temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's invocation of the 1798 wartime law.

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Justice Roberts Pauses Return Order In Deportation Case

By Katie Buehler

Chief Justice John Roberts hit pause Monday on a federal judge's order requiring the Trump administration to quickly bring back a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador and imprisoned there, freeing the administration from a late night compliance deadline.

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Judge Who Shot Wife Warned Against Retrial 'Press Tour'

By Gina Kim

The California judge presiding over the murder trial of an Orange County jurist who fatally shot his wife admonished him Monday for embarking on a recent "press tour," warning that he could be violating the state judicial ethics code by commenting on a pending case. 

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