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March 18, 2025
DraftKings Must Face Claims In MLB Players' NIL Suit
DraftKings has failed to convince a Pennsylvania federal judge to toss a lawsuit against it claiming the company unlawfully used images of MLB players for promotional purposes, as the court rejected the argument that using the pictures was protected speech.
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March 18, 2025
Employment Ace Rejoins Littler In Houston From ADR Firm
A former Littler Mendelson PC partner who spent the last 15 years as a business executive, general counsel and leader of his own alternative dispute resolution firm rejoined his former workplace to pick back up his private practice career.
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March 18, 2025
Maynard Nexsen Adds 5 Constangy Employment Attys In LA
Maynard Nexsen PC has brought a 5-lawyer team from labor and employment firm Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP to its Los Angeles office, bringing on a team that is experienced in management-side employment law and can converse in six languages.
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March 18, 2025
News Union Backs NLRB Order Against Pittsburgh Paper
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette bargained in bad faith with its reporters' union by insisting on unilateral control over their job terms based on vague concerns about the journalism industry, the union told the Third Circuit, urging a panel to enforce a National Labor Relations Board ruling.
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March 18, 2025
NJ Firm Blume Forte Hit With Disability Bias Suit
New Jersey personal injury firm Blume Forte Fried Zerres & Molinari PC has been hit with a disability discrimination lawsuit in state court by a staffer who claims she was fired after a seizure and other health setbacks.
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March 18, 2025
Dem Ex-EEOC Officials Call Law Firm DEI Letters Overreach
A group of Democrat-appointed former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission officials urged acting Chair Andrea Lucas on Tuesday to rescind letters seeking information from 20 law firms about their diversity, equity and inclusion practices, saying she had exceeded the agency's power.
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March 18, 2025
White House Asks Agencies For Info On Union Contract Costs
The Office of Personnel Management has asked federal agencies to detail how much they have spent on bargaining with the unions that represent their workers, launching a probe of potentially "substantial" costs as the Trump administration reexamines the relationship between the government and federal unions.
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March 18, 2025
NC Dance Teams' TM Feud Likened To MLB Rivalry At 4th Circ.
An attorney for a North Carolina charter school on Tuesday used one of the biggest rivalries in Major League Baseball to illustrate for the Fourth Circuit how two former teachers stole its allegedly trademarked dance team name and used pictures of the school's team to trick parents.
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March 18, 2025
NLRB Judge Won't Issue Bargaining Order At Mo. Starbucks
Starbucks violated the National Labor Relations Act once during Workers United's organizing drive at a Missouri store, but the violation wasn't severe enough to have caused the union's loss in a representation election, a National Labor Relations Board judge said, rejecting board prosecutors' request for a bargaining order.
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March 18, 2025
Pa. Shell Plant Workers Get Cert. For Commute Time Suit
Hundreds of contractors who helped build Shell's petrochemical plant in Western Pennsylvania can be represented in a lawsuit seeking pay for extra time they spent being shuttled between the worksite and satellite parking, after a federal judge granted class certification Tuesday.
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March 18, 2025
Whistleblower Says Perdue Farms' DOL Battle Is Premature
A whistleblower pursuing retaliation claims against Perdue Farms Inc. at the U.S. Department of Labor over the company allegedly sending him unhealthy chickens to raise after he raised concerns about the company's sanitation standards urged a North Carolina federal judge to throw out the poultry producer's case, arguing the court lacks jurisdiction.
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March 18, 2025
Carnival Co. Must Face H-2B Visa Workers' Wage Suit
A traveling carnival business and its president cannot avoid a proposed class action alleging they forced workers employed through the H-2B visa program to work long hours without overtime pay, a Virginia federal judge ruled, saying there's not enough evidence to warrant a pretrial win.
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March 17, 2025
Meta Facing Investor Suit Over €1.2B EU Data Privacy Fine
A pair of pension funds on Monday filed suit against Meta Platforms Inc. in Delaware's Court of Chancery, accusing the company of repeatedly violating data privacy laws, a pattern that the funds say led to the company being fined €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) by European authorities.
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March 17, 2025
US Chamber Says FCA Qui Tam Provisions Unconstitutional
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Monday endorsed a legal challenge aimed at bringing down the whistleblower provisions in the False Claims Act, arguing there is a "manifest conflict between the modern FCA's qui tam provisions and Article II's text."
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March 17, 2025
DOGE Wants Judge To Reconsider Records Production Order
The Department of Government Efficiency has asked a D.C. federal judge to reconsider an order requiring it to share requested records with a watchdog group, doubling down on its position that DOGE is not an agency subject to public records law.
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March 17, 2025
Google To Pay $28M On Claim It Favored White, Asian Workers
Google LLC will pay $28 million to put to rest allegations it pays and promotes certain nonwhite employees less than their white and Asian colleagues, counsel for a class of workers said Monday.
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March 17, 2025
Judge Extends Block On Data Sharing With DOGE
A Maryland federal judge extended her temporary restraining order blocking the U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Office of Personnel Management from turning over sensitive personal information on federal employees to Department of Government Efficiency workers Monday, giving herself another week to rule on the workers' preliminary injunction request.
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March 17, 2025
NCAA, States Ask Judge To OK Deal On NIL Recruiting Rules
A coalition of states and the NCAA asked a Tennessee federal judge to sign off Monday on a settlement that seeks to resolve antitrust litigation over the NCAA's ban on athlete recruits' name, image and likeness compensation, revealing new details of the deal, including a permanent bar on future policies.
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March 17, 2025
NJ Justices Deem Commissions Protected Under Wage Law
The New Jersey Supreme Court clarified in a unanimous opinion Monday that workers who make commissions are subject to state wage law protections, handing a win to an employee who sold more than $32 million in personal protective equipment during three months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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March 17, 2025
NYC To Pay $140M To End Taxi Drivers' Unfair Suspension Suit
New York City has agreed to pay $140 million to settle a nearly two-decade-old federal class action alleging its practice of summarily suspending licenses for taxi drivers who've been arrested but not yet convicted deprives them of due process by denying them meaningful opportunities to challenge their suspensions.
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March 17, 2025
Tort Report: Fatal Hippo Attack Prompts Suit Against Tour Co.
A lawsuit over a woman's death from a hippo attack and the latest on a Fox News sex assault case lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.
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March 17, 2025
Teacher Suspended Over Crucifix Seeks Reinstatement
A Catholic teacher placed on leave for refusing to pull down a crucifix in her classroom asked a Connecticut federal judge to take action to get her back to work, arguing that she's likely to succeed on her arguments that the move violated the First Amendment.
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March 17, 2025
Burger King Workers Defend Revived No-Poach Case
Burger King employees are defending their proposed class action over the fast-food chain's past use of no-poach provisions in its franchise agreements, as the restaurant urges a Florida federal court to toss the claims despite an appeals court reviving them in 2022.
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March 17, 2025
Split 9th Circ. Won't Halt Federal Workers Reinstatement Order
A divided Ninth Circuit panel on Monday denied President Donald Trump's administration an immediate administrative stay of a California district court order requiring reinstatement of some probationary federal workers fired from six agencies, the majority saying a pause "would disrupt the status quo and turn it on its head."
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March 17, 2025
X Corp. Says Dismissal, Sanctions Go Together In Bonus Suit
A former X Corp. senior director of compensation engaged in "vexatious conduct" that should not allow him to drop his suit claiming unpaid bonuses without sanctions, the social media platform told a California federal judge.
Expert Analysis
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Making The Case For Rest In The Legal Profession
For too long, a culture of overwork has plagued the legal profession, but research shows that attorneys need rest to perform optimally and sustainably, so legal organizations and individuals must implement strategies that allow for restoration, says Marissa Alert at MDA Wellness, Carol Ross-Burnett at CRB Global, and Denise Robinson at The Still Center.
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2 Areas Of Labor Law That May Change Under Trump
Based on President Donald Trump's recent moves, employers should expect to see significant changes in the direction of law coming out of the National Labor Relations Board, particularly in two areas where the Trump administration will seek to roll back the Biden NLRB's changes, says Daniel Johns at Cozen O’Connor.
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4 Ways Women Attorneys Can Build A Legal Legacy
This Women’s History Month, women attorneys should consider what small, day-to-day actions they can take to help leave a lasting impact for future generations, even if it means mentoring one person or taking 10 minutes to make a plan, says Jackie Prester, a former shareholder at Baker Donelson.
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Justices' Revival Ruling In Bias Suit Exceeds Procedural Issue
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in Waetzig v. Halliburton allowed the plaintiff in an age discrimination lawsuit to move to reopen his case after arbitration, but the seemingly straightforward decision on a procedural issue raises complex questions for employment law practitioners, says Christopher Sakauye at Dykema.
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Bid Protest Roundup: Prejudice, Injunctions, New Regulations
In this month's bid protest roundup, Markus Speidel at MoFo looks at three recent decisions that consider whether a past performance evaluation needs to show prejudice to be successfully challenged, the prerequisites for injunctive relief and the application of new regulatory requirements to indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts.
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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.