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March 14, 2025
Worker Sues NBA's Suns For Age Discrimination, Retaliation
A 46-year-old video engineer filed an age discrimination lawsuit against the NBA's Phoenix Suns, alleging the organization coerced him into changing his employment status to contractor and forced him to work in a rodent-infested garage when he complained.
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March 14, 2025
Conn. City, Worker Settle Teamsters Union Membership Suit
A Connecticut city has settled a public works employee's claim that he was fired for joining a local Teamsters union after pressure from the mayor and other bosses to invoke a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court case that allows government employees to avoid paying union dues.
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March 14, 2025
4th Circ. Reluctant To Loosen EEOC Charge Requirement
A Fourth Circuit panel seemed hesitant Friday to revive a bias case from a worker whose presuit U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charge didn't specifically name one of the entities he hauled into court, with one judge expressing "apprehension" about adopting a widely used exception to charge filing rules.
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March 14, 2025
7th Circ. Backs Arbitrator Finding COVID Is No 'Act Of God'
A distribution service provider failed to support its argument that an "act of God" exemption in a contract it had with a Teamsters chapter allowed the company to reduce workers' hours during the coronavirus pandemic, the Seventh Circuit ruled, keeping in place an arbitrator's conclusion.
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March 14, 2025
Combs Jury To Be Closely Vetted For May Trial
A Manhattan federal judge said Friday that he plans to open Sean "Diddy" Combs' criminal trial on sex-trafficking charges on May 12 after a lengthy jury-vetting process, laying out his plan after the jailed hip-hop icon denied charges in a superseding indictment.
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March 14, 2025
PGA Beats Fired Christian Worker's COVID Vax Bias Suit
A former PGA Tour employee did not show religious bias motivated his firing, a Florida federal judge ruled when dismissing the case, finding instead he was let go for shirking COVID-19 testing requirements presented as an alternative to the organization's vaccination mandate.
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March 14, 2025
Post-Gazette Print, Ad Workers Take Buyout After Court Loss
Striking production and advertising workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have reached a deal to take a buyout from the newspaper's publisher, the Communications Workers of America announced Thursday, just weeks after the National Labor Relations Board lost its bid to restart bargaining between the paper and the workers' unions.
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March 14, 2025
Off The Bench: Ex-Jet Sues Over Favre Clip, New Soccer Build
In this week's Off The Bench, a retired football superstar claims an argument with icon Brett Favre should have never been aired on television, one trading card company gets the upper hand on another in dueling antitrust suits, and an English soccer club opts for a new stadium over a rebuild of the old one.
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March 14, 2025
Mass. Justices Say Transit Agency Not Immune In Assault Suit
Massachusetts' highest court said Friday that the public transit agency in Greater Boston is not immune from claims that it negligently hired and retained a bus driver with an alleged known history of anger management issues who later beat up a customer and left him with a traumatic brain injury.
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March 14, 2025
NYC Asylum Shelter Co. Illegally Fired Workers, Suit Says
A New York City contractor that provided shelter for asylum seekers illegally laid off more than 200 employees without notice when it was forced to shutter facilities after an audit found it mismanaged $11 million and provided migrants with substandard housing conditions, a class action filed in federal court said.
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March 13, 2025
Feds Can't Pause NYC Congestion Pricing Cases
A New York federal judge denied the federal government's request to prioritize a case filed by Empire State transportation authorities over a newly launched Manhattan congestion pricing program that the Trump administration has moved to kill, saying Thursday the court wouldn't stay other cases over the program that are further along.
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March 13, 2025
Fla. Nursing Home Dodged Union After Transfer, NLRB Says
A National Labor Relations Board judge ruled that employees of a Florida nursing home were entitled to backpay and compensation for unused paid time off, finding that workers weren't told in advance that their facility switched operators in violation of a union collective bargaining agreement.
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March 13, 2025
Soulja Boy Beat And Raped Assistant, Jury Told As Trial Starts
The artist known as Soulja Boy physically and sexually abused a live-in personal assistant for nearly two years, jurors in California state court heard on the first day of a civil assault and employment trial against the "Crank That" rapper on Thursday.
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March 13, 2025
Judge Trims Claims Of Botched Federal Savings Transition
A D.C. federal judge trimmed a proposed class of federal employees and their family members' claims against two companies that manage workers' retirement plan and the plan's board Wednesday, tossing claims of negligence and breach of fiduciary duty but leaving breach of contract and unjust enrichment claims intact.
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March 13, 2025
Buehler's Managers Say Grocery Chain Flouts OT Laws
Grocery chain Buehler's Fresh Foods is accused of failing to pay overtime wages to catering, produce, kitchen and bakery managers who put in more than 40 hours per workweek but were wrongly classified as exempt, according to a proposed collective action filed in Ohio federal court.
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March 13, 2025
UAW Says Volkswagen Dodging Union On Shift Changes
Volkswagen has violated federal labor law by looking to conduct layoffs as part of a shift reduction at a recently unionized plant in Tennessee without bargaining with the union, the United Auto Workers claim in an unfair labor practice charge filed Thursday with the National Labor Relations Board.
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March 13, 2025
Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund Beats Accountant's Bias Suit
The Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund defeated Thursday a former accountant's lawsuit claiming he was passed over for promotions and ultimately fired because he was a Black man in his 60s, with an Illinois federal judge finding it was his declining job performance that cost him the job.
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March 13, 2025
2nd Circ. Won't Revive Saks, Luxury Brands No-Poach Case
A Second Circuit panel refused Thursday to revive an antitrust suit from former Saks Fifth Avenue employees over the retailer's alleged agreements with Gucci, Louis Vuitton and other luxury fashion houses to not hire workers from its stores.
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March 13, 2025
Bumble Bee Foods Accused Of Benefiting From Forced Labor
Four Indonesian villagers who allege they were trapped in abusive and dangerous slave-working conditions for years aboard tuna fishing vessels sued Bumble Bee Foods LLC in California federal court, accusing the seafood giant of knowingly benefiting from forced labor in violation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.
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March 13, 2025
Ga. Court Nixes Reinstatement Of Officer Who Beat Jail Inmate
The Georgia Court of Appeals has reversed a trial court decision that reinstated to his job a former Athens-Clarke County police officer who was found to have beaten a person incarcerated in county jail, ruling there was enough evidence to justify the officer's firing for the assault.
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March 13, 2025
Fed Unions Challenge Dissolution Of TSA Officers' Labor Deal
A union coalition sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Washington federal court Thursday, claiming it arbitrarily shredded a contract covering airport security officers to punish their union for challenging the president's "anti-worker actions" in court.
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March 13, 2025
Home Chef, Staffing Co. Sued Over Harassment Firing
A staffing agency and Relish Labs LLC, the legal entity behind meal kit delivery service Home Chef, have been sued in Georgia federal court by a former employee who alleged she was fired after reporting sexual harassment she suffered at the hands of a co-worker.
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March 13, 2025
Russell Simmons Accuser Refiles Suit After Jurisdiction Issue
A Jane Doe plaintiff whose New York federal court suit alleging Def Jam Recordings co-founder Russell Simmons raped her in his apartment in the 1990s was dismissed on jurisdictional grounds on Thursday refiled the claims in state court.
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March 13, 2025
Coverage Bars Fla. Worker Who Died In Fall, Insurer Says
A Michigan-based insurance company has asked a Florida federal court to declare that it doesn't owe coverage in a claim stemming from a condominium worker's death after falling five stories, asserting that its policy doesn't cover the death if it occurred during the scope of the employer's business.
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March 13, 2025
SEIU Fund Escapes Surgery Centers' Underpayment Suit
A Service Employees International Union benefit fund no longer has to face a lawsuit four surgical centers launched accusing it of shortchanging them on patient treatments, with a New York federal judge saying Wednesday the centers have failed to show that any agreement existed between themselves and the fund.
Expert Analysis
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A Judge's Pointers For Adding Spice To Dry Legal Writing
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery shares a few key lessons about how to go against the grain of the legal writing tradition by adding color to bland judicial opinions, such as by telling a human story and injecting literary devices where possible.
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How To Create A Unique Jury Profile For Every Case
Instead of striking potential jurors based on broad stereotypes or gut feelings, trial attorneys should create case-specific risk profiles that address the political climate, the specific facts of the case and the venue in order to more precisely identify higher-risk jurors, says Ken Broda-Bahm at Persuasion Strategies.
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9 Considerations For Orgs Using AI Meeting Assistants
When deciding to use artificial intelligence meeting assistants, organizations must create and implement a written corporate policy that establishes the do's and don'ts for these assistants, taking into account individualized business operations, industry standards and legal and regulatory requirements, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.
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IRS Scrutiny May Underlie Move Away From NIL Collectives
The University of Colorado's January announcement that it was severing its partnership with a name, image and likeness collective is part of universities' recent push to move NIL activities in-house, seemingly motivated by tax implications and increased scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service, say attorneys at Buchanan Ingersoll.
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What's At Stake In High Court Transgender Care Suit
The outcome of U.S. v. Skrmetti will have critical implications for the rights of transgender youth and their access to gender-affirming care, and will likely affect other areas of law and policy involving transgender individuals, including education, employment, healthcare and civil rights, say attorneys at ArentFox Schiff.
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Considerations As Trump Admin Continues To Curtail CFPB
Recent sweeping moves from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new leadership have signaled a major shift in the agency's trajectory, and regulated entities should prepare for broader implications in both the near and long term, say attorneys at Pryor Cashman.
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6th Circ. Ruling Paves Path Out Of Loper Bright 'Twilight Zone'
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright ruling created a twilight zone between express statutory delegations that trigger agency deference and implicit ones that do not, but the Sixth Circuit’s recent ruling in Moctezuma-Reyes v. Garland crafted a two-part test for resolving cases within this gray area, say attorneys at Wiley.
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NCAA Rulings Signal Game Change For Athlete Classification
A Tennessee federal court's recent decision in Pavia v. NCAA adds to a growing call to consider classifying college athletes as employees under federal law, a change that would have unexpected, potentially prohibitive costs for schools, says J.R. Webster Cucovatz at Gilson Daub.
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6 Laws Transforming Calif.'s Health Regulatory Framework
Attorneys at Hooper Lundy discuss a number of new California laws that raise pressing issues for independent physicians and small practice groups, ranging from the use of artificial intelligence to wage standards for healthcare employees.
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Opinion
NCAA Name, Image, Likeness Settlement Is A $2.8B Mistake
While the plaintiffs in House v. NCAA might call the proposed settlement on name, image and likeness payments for college athletes a breakthrough, it's a legally dubious Band-Aid that props up a system favoring a select handful of male athletes at the expense of countless others, say attorneys at Clifford Chance.
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Recent Cases Clarify FCA Kickback Pleading Standards
Two recently resolved cases involving pharmaceutical manufacturers may make it more difficult for False Claims Act defendants facing kickback scheme allegations to get claims dismissed for lack of evidence, say Li Yu at Bernstein Litowitz, Ellen London at London & Noar, and Gregg Shapiro at Gregg Shapiro Law.
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Determining What 'I Don't Feel Safe' Means In The Workplace
When an employee tells an employer "I don't feel safe," the phrase can have different meanings, so employment lawyers must adequately investigate to identify which meaning applies — and a cursory review and dismissal of the situation may not be a sufficient defense in case of future legal proceedings, says Karen Elliott at FordHarrison.
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Steps For Federal Grantees Affected By Stop-Work Orders
Broad changes in federal financial assistance programs are on the horizon, and organizations that may receive a stop-work order from a federal agency must prepare to be vigilant and nimble in a highly uncertain legal landscape, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.
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FLSA Ruling Shows Split Over Court Approval Of Settlements
A Kentucky federal court's recent ruling in Bazemore v. Papa John's highlights a growing trend of courts finding they are not required, or even authorized, to approve private settlements releasing Fair Labor Standards Act claims, underscoring a jurisdictional split and open questions that practitioners need to grapple with, say attorneys at Vedder Price.
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How EEOC Enforcement Priorities May Change Under Trump
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has already been rocked by the Trump administration's dramatic changes in personnel and policy, which calls into question how the agency may shift its direction from the priorities set forth in its five-year strategic enforcement plan in 2023, say attorneys at Seyfarth.