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February 28, 2025
7th Circ. Says It's Too Early To Mull Fired ISU Coach's Suit
A Seventh Circuit panel says it lacks the jurisdiction to consider if a lower court rightly denied dismissal of a lawsuit brought by an ex-Illinois State University football coach who claims he was unlawfully fired for posting an "All Lives Matter" sign on his office door, because the district judge postponed a decision on the school officials' qualified immunity argument.
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February 28, 2025
Software Engineer Faces Prison For Sharing Info With China
A Southern California man has pled guilty to downloading sensitive technology from a former employer and using it to market his own competing business to a company in China, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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February 28, 2025
New Jersey AG Office Tells Court It Wasn't Whistleblowers' Boss
The New Jersey Attorney General's Office told a state judge Friday that it should be removed from a lawsuit accusing the Warren County prosecutor's office of retaliating against two detectives for their part in uncovering an alleged fraud scheme, because the attorney general was never their employer.
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February 28, 2025
Mich. Atty Says Ex-Firm Foiling Cases Over Retaliation Suit
A lawyer urged a Michigan federal judge to pause matters in several state court cases as she alleged her former law firm, Olsman MacKenzie Peacock PC, is using the proceedings to retaliate against her for filing a sexual harassment and hostile workplace suit against it and another firm run by a well-known mediator.
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February 28, 2025
SuperValu Complains About Falsity Question In FCA Case
Whistleblowers claiming SuperValu overcharged the government by $123 million for prescriptions can ask witnesses a single question alluding to a bitterly contested legal finding in the False Claims Act case in Illinois federal court, the grocer revealed in a motion objecting to the judge allowing that question.
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February 28, 2025
DA Eyes Type Of Weinstein Evidence That Sank 1st Verdict
Manhattan prosecutors preparing to retry Harvey Weinstein want a jury to hear about alleged sexual assaults by the jailed Hollywood mogul that are not part of his indictment — the same kind of testimony that doomed his original conviction on appeal.
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February 28, 2025
Colo. Corrections Dept. Says No Pay Needed For On-Call Time
A collective action accusing the Colorado Department of Corrections of failing to pay criminal investigators for time they spent on call should be thrown out, the department told a federal court, saying the workers weren't barred from doing personal activities during this time and thus aren't owed any extra wages.
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February 28, 2025
Adobe Hit With Age Bias Claim By Former Sales Manager
A former Adobe sales manager was sidelined and then fired after reporting a supervisor's comments on his age to human resources, according to a lawsuit filed in Massachusetts state court.
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February 28, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen the billionaire Zakay brothers, founders of Topland Group, become embroiled in a legal dispute with each other, Unilever sue three major perfume companies over alleged illegal price-fixing, and the publisher of Vogue magazine file an intellectual property suit against Cornucopia Events. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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February 28, 2025
Trump Admin's NIL Guidance Isn't Law, But Is A Title IX Threat
When President Donald Trump's U.S. Department of Education recently rescinded late Biden-era guidance instructing that upcoming revenue distribution to college athletes should follow Title IX laws protecting equal opportunity for women, legal experts told Law360 it came as little surprise — but also carried very little legitimate legal force.
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February 27, 2025
States Say DOD Transgender Ban Puts Public Safety At Risk
Twenty-one states on Wednesday threw their support behind transgender service members and human rights organizations challenging the Trump administration's executive order banning transgender people from serving in the military, arguing that it will harm their efforts to protect their communities.
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February 27, 2025
11th Circ. Urged To Revive Captivity Claims Against Cruise Co.
Two former crew members who served aboard a Celebrity Cruises Inc. ship urged the Eleventh Circuit to reinstate their COVID-19 related false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional distress claims in a proposed class action against the company, arguing they were wrongly tossed after getting remanded to the lower court.
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February 27, 2025
5th Circ. Won't Revive Sheriff's Workers' Leave Policy Suit
The Fifth Circuit declined Thursday to reinstate a lawsuit employees brought against the Harris County Sheriff's Office over a policy restricting how they can use the compensatory time off they receive in lieu of overtime wages, saying the workers cannot show they have a property interest to the accrued time.
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February 27, 2025
Unions Can Depose DOGE In Agency Access Suit, Judge Says
The Department of Government Efficiency must tell a group of unions whom it's sent into the Department of Labor, the Department of Health & Human Services and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and what computer systems they've accessed, a D.C. federal judge ruled Thursday.
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February 27, 2025
DOL Watchdog Asks To Ensure Wages Are In H-2A Certs
The office in charge of reviewing H-2A applications for foreign workers should boost its procedures to make sure the requests have the correct prevailing wage rates, the U.S. Department of Labor's agency watchdog said in an audit report publicly released Thursday.
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February 27, 2025
Alsup Halts 'Illegal' Firings Of Probationary Federal Workers
U.S. District Judge William Alsup on Thursday temporarily blocked the mass firings of probationary federal employees ordered by President Donald Trump's administration, determining that the Office of Personnel Management illegally directed government agencies to terminate the probationary employees without authority to do so from Congress.
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February 27, 2025
Yet Another NCAA Antitrust Domino Looks To Be Teetering
The NCAA's misadventures in federal antitrust law have prompted sweeping changes to the college sports landscape in recent years, with more potentially on the horizon as the organization wrestles over its eligibility rules for athletes transferring from junior colleges.
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February 27, 2025
NLRB Tells 6th Circ. Constitution Args Can't Block Board Case
The National Labor Relations Board has asked the Sixth Circuit to deny an auto parts manufacturer's bid to pause an NLRB case on constitutional grounds, saying the company hasn't shown it would suffer the type of harm that justifies an injunction if the case moves forward.
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February 27, 2025
Concrete Co. Admits Safety Gaffe Linked To Worker's Death
A Delaware-based construction industry supplier with operations in Ohio has pled guilty to willfully violating federal workplace safety regulations in connection with the 2020 death of an employee, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ohio announced.
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February 27, 2025
Ex-Worker Says Manufacturer Fails To Pay For Off-Clock Work
A pharmaceutical manufacturing company requires hourly employees to perform tasks before and after their shifts but fails to compensate them for this extra time, a proposed class and collective action filed in Washington federal court said.
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February 27, 2025
Yellow Corp. Beats Teamsters In WARN Act Row
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has ruled that trucking company Yellow Corp. is not liable for its failure to provide 60 days notice of layoffs to 22,000 union workers who lost their jobs as the company descended into Chapter 11, finding that Yellow was a "liquidating fiduciary" at the time and intended to comply with the WARN Act.
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February 27, 2025
EU Prepared To Retaliate Against US Over Tariffs, Officials Say
European Union officials said Thursday that the bloc is prepared to retaliate against the U.S. if President Donald Trump follows through with tariffs on over $600 billion of goods, a situation that two law professors said risks becoming a trade war more than past disputes.
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February 27, 2025
Goldstein Urges Judge To Lift Device Monitoring Requirement
U.S. Supreme Court advocate and SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein asked a Maryland federal judge Thursday to nix a condition of his pretrial release that requires him to have monitoring equipment installed on his electronic devices.
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February 27, 2025
Paralegal Accuses Morris Manning Of Race, Disability Bias
A former paralegal in the Atlanta office of Morris Manning & Martin LLP hit her old firm with a lawsuit this week alleging that the firm fired her last year to avoid having to pay her while she was out on extended medical leave.
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February 27, 2025
Conn. Firm Windup Fight Belongs In Arbitration, Court Told
Connecticut attorney Ryan McKeen asked a judge Thursday to pause a derivative lawsuit his onetime 50-50 law partner Andrew Garza brought against him over the dissolution and windup of their firm, arguing that the claims should be heard in arbitration proceedings that were already cleared in a related suit.
Expert Analysis
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Series
Group Running Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The combination of physical fitness and community connection derived from running with a group of business leaders has, among other things, helped me to stay grounded, improve my communication skills, and develop a deeper empathy for clients and colleagues, says Jessica Shpall Rosen at Greenwald Doherty.
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Tips For Employers Facing Looming Immigration Changes
As Trump's second term heralds a challenging period for immigration policy, employers should look to lessons from his first administration as they implement strategies for their global talent programs and communications protocols, says Eileen Lohmann at BAL.
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Opinion
6 Changes I Would Make If I Ran A Law School
Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner identifies several key issues plaguing law schools and discusses potential solutions, such as opting out of the rankings game and mandating courses in basic writing skills.
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5 Employer Defenses To Military Status Discrimination Claims
A Colorado federal court's recent ruling, finding a Navy reservist wasn't denied promotion at his civilian job due to antimilitary bias, highlights several defenses employers can use to counter claims of violations of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, say attorneys at Littler Mendelson.
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Firms Still Have The Edge In Lateral Hiring, But Buyer Beware
Partner mobility data suggests that the third quarter of this year continued to be a buyer’s market, with the average candidate demanding less compensation for a larger book of business — but moving into the fourth quarter, firms should slow down their hiring process to minimize risks, say officers at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.
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What May Have Led Calif. Voters To Reject Min. Wage Hike
County-specific election results for California’s ballot measure that would have raised the state’s minimum wage to $18 show that last year's introduction of a $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers may have influenced voters’ narrow rejection of the measure, says Stephen Bronars at Edgeworth Economics.
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Teaching Your Witness To Beat The Freeze/Appease Response
In addition to fight-or-flight, witnesses may experience the freeze/appease response at trial or deposition — where they become a deer in headlights, agreeing with opposing counsel’s questions and damaging their credibility in the process — but certain strategies can help, says Bill Kanasky at Courtroom Sciences.
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Think Like A Lawyer: 1 Type Of Case Complexity Stands Out
In contrast to some cases that appear complex due to voluminous evidence or esoteric subject matter, a different kind of complexity involves tangled legal and factual questions, each with a range of possible outcomes, which require a “sliding scale” approach instead of syllogistic reasoning, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
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Why State Captive Audience Laws Matter After NLRB Decision
As employers focus on complying with the National Labor Relations Board's new position that captive audience meetings violate federal labor law, they should also be careful not to overlook state captive audience laws that prohibit additional types of company meetings and communications, says Karla Grossenbacher at Seyfarth.
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Think Like A Lawyer: Note 3 Simple Types Of Legal Complexity
Cases can appear complex for several reasons — due to the number of issues, the volume of factual and evidentiary sources, and the sophistication of those sources — but the same basic technique can help lawyers tame their arguments into a simple and persuasive message, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
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Justices Mull Sex-Based Classification In Trans Law Case
After the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in U.S. v. Skrmetti this week, it appears that the fate of the Tennessee law at the center of the case — a law banning gender-affirming healthcare for transgender adolescents — will hinge on whether the majority read the statute as imposing a sex-based classification, says Alexandra Crandall at Dickinson Wright.
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Every Dog Has Its Sick Day: Inside NYC's Pet Leave Bill
In what would be a first-of-its-kind law for a major metropolitan area, a recent proposal would amend New York City's Earned Safe and Sick Time Act to include animal care as an accepted use of sick leave — and employers may not think it's the cat's meow, say attorneys at Morrison Cohen.
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Series
Gardening Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Beyond its practical and therapeutic benefits, gardening has bolstered important attributes that also apply to my litigation practice, including persistence, patience, grit and authenticity, says Christopher Viceconte at Gibbons.
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How Trump's 2nd Term May Alter The Immigration Landscape
Rhetoric from Donald Trump's campaign and his choice of hardline appointees indicate that a more restrictive and punitive approach to immigration is in our immediate future, especially in areas like humanitarian relief, nonimmigrant visa processing, and travel and green card eligibility, says John Quill at Mintz.
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Litigation Inspiration: Reframing Document Review
For attorneys — new ones especially — there is much fulfillment to find in document review by reflecting on how important, interesting and pleasant it can be, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.