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Defending Hospital Antisteering Clauses From DOJ Scrutiny

The Trump administration has recently made clear that pursuing antitrust challenges to antisteering provisions in ... (more story)

Flashpoints In Focus: Navigating Anti-American Bias Scrutiny

In light of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission encouraging workers to file charges alleging national... (more story)

West Point Prof's Suit Tests Public Employee Speech Limits

A recent complaint in New York federal court alleging that West Point unlawfully terminated a professor who challe... (more story)

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Union, Groups Challenge Trump's 'Noncitizen' Ballot Demand

A labor union and two voter advocacy groups have asked a Washington federal court to stop President Donald Trump's administration from pressuring state election officials to set aside ballots from about 400 re... (more story)

Teamsters Local Sued Over Boston Convention Job Walkout

A trade show services company accused a Teamsters local in Massachusetts federal court of striking in violation of their labor contract and pressuring an event organizer to hire a competitor for a Boston conve... (more story)

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NLRB GC Says Case Handling Changes Have Cut Backlog

So far this year, National Labor Relations Board regional offices have determined the merits of more than 10,600 unfair labor practice cases that were pending at the time general counsel Crystal Carey took off... (more story)

Trump Admin Seeks Revival Of Blocked Fixed-Term Visa Rule

The Trump administration has told a Massachusetts federal court that its currently blocked final rule setting firm duration limits on foreign student and press visas is critical for national security, while ed... (more story)

Longtime NLRB Vet Tapped As Board Advisory Atty

A longtime National Labor Relations Board attorney who most recently served as acting chief of staff to Chairman James Murphy will take over as solicitor to the board, leading an office that provides legal gui... (more story)

NLRB Judge Tosses Case Against YWCA In Wash.

A YWCA in Olympia, Washington, restructured its operations in 2024 because it was "bleeding money," not because it wanted to push out four rabble-rousers, a National Labor Relations Board judge said, clearing ... (more story)

Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 89 Firms

The lawyers chosen as Law360's 2026 MVPs stand out from their peers by notching significant achievements in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-setting transactions.

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Hospice Co. Strikes Pact To Wrap Up EEOC Race Bias Suit

A home hospice provider has agreed to pay $40,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the business blocked a Black employee from better job assignments and more hours, accor... (more story)

Ex-Wells Fargo Director Seeks $1M Fee Award After Appeal

A former Wells Fargo director and an attorney who represented him in his $22 million Americans with Disabilities Act suit against the bank are making a second attempt to collect attorney fees, pushing a North ... (more story)

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Humanitarian Nonprofit Won't Face Sex Harassment Claims

A California appeals court refused to revive claims that a former employee of actor Sean Penn's nongovernmental organization was sexually harassed on the job by a firefighter, concluding an arbitrator did not ... (more story)

Up Next At High Court: Religious Liberty & Unpled Defenses

The U.S. Supreme Court will begin its November sitting by hearing oral arguments in a case challenging the constitutionality of Colorado's universal preschool program and a dispute asking the justices to settl... (more story)

Calif. Forecast: High Court Weighs 'Headless' PAGA Claims

In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for California Supreme Court oral arguments on whether employees can bring claims under the state's Private Attorneys General Act on behalf of only other workers and n... (more story)

Co. Says EEOC Suit Over Women-Only Retreat Was Premature

A Coca-Cola bottling company said the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission shirked its presuit obligations before filing a lawsuit over a women-only corporate retreat, telling a federal court that the ... (more story)

NY Forecast: Judge Weighs Tossing VA Sex Bias Suit

In the week ahead, a New York federal judge will consider the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' bid to dismiss a former employee's suit claiming she was discriminated against on the basis of her sex, denied... (more story)

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GEO Strikes Settlement Before Trial In Colo. Forced Labor Suit

Former detainees of a Colorado immigration detention facility and private prison operator The GEO Group Inc. struck a deal Monday ahead of trial in a 12-year-old class action that alleged the U.S. Immigration ... (more story)

1-800-Flowers Shorted Delivery Drivers on OT, Suit Claims

Flower delivery service 1-800-Flowers failed to pay its workers proper overtime wages and took unlawful kickbacks by requiring its workers to pay for their own gas, a former delivery driver has alleged in a cl... (more story)

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Pa. Justices Nix Damages For CEO Who Was Paid Late

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled an employee can't sue an employer for liquidated damages stemming from unpaid wages if those wages were paid before the lawsuit was filed, even if the payday came late.

Boeing Beats Workers' Suit Over Unpaid Shuttle Time

A South Carolina federal judge tossed a proposed collective action accusing Boeing of failing to pay employees for time spent waiting for and riding mandatory shuttles to its aircraft plant, ruling that the tr... (more story)

Philly Health System's Time Rounding Shorted OT, Suit Says

A former hospital supervisor has accused a Philadelphia health system in Pennsylvania state court of shortchanging hourly workers on overtime by rounding their clock-in and clock-out times to the nearest 15 mi... (more story)

Home Care Cos. Win Partial Block Of DOL Overtime Rule

The U.S. Department of Labor exceeded its authority by barring third-party employers of live-in domestic workers from claiming a federal overtime exemption, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled, but he kept in p... (more story)

Tech Prices, Driver Networks Hang Over DoorDash Tie-Up

Antitrust observers told Law360 Thursday they expect significant scrutiny of DoorDash's plan to acquire Instacart for an equity value of approximately $17 billion, pointing to the overlap between their restaur... (more story)