Expert Analysis

Mulling Differing Circuit Rulings On Gender-Affirming Care

Despite the Eleventh Circuit's recent holding in Lange v. Houston County that a health plan's exclusion for gender... (more story)

What To Know As Rulings Limit NLRB's Expanded Remedies

Two recent appellate decisions strongly rebuke the National Labor Relations Board's expansion of remedies beyond r... (more story)

5 Bonus Plan Compliance Issues In Financial Services

As several legal constraints — including a new California debt repayment law taking effect in January — tighten ar... (more story)

Labor More

Nexstar Asks 5th Circ. To Rethink Affirming Bargaining Order

A Fifth Circuit panel should reconsider its decision to uphold a bargaining order against Nexstar, the media company has argued, with the order compelling the company to negotiate with a newly installed Commun... (more story)

Yellow Settles $7.4B In Pension Fund Claims In Ch. 11

Insolvent trucking company Yellow Corp. has reached agreements with 14 multi-employer pension funds to resolve $7.4 billion worth of withdrawal liability claims, putting to rest a conflict that was sparked two... (more story)

NLRB Judge Clears SoCal Art School In Faculty Union Dispute

A Southern California art school didn't violate the National Labor Relations Act when it created new managerial positions in 2023 without bargaining to the faculty union's satisfaction, a National Labor Relati... (more story)

6th Circ. Holds Construction Co. In Contempt Over Records

A construction company violated an enforcement ruling by refusing to provide information a union has requested for years and must explain why it shouldn't be held in further contempt for ignoring a more recent... (more story)

Amazon Gets NY's NLRB Fill-In Law Blocked For Now

A New York federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking a law allowing the Empire State's labor board to adjudicate private sector unionization matters and labor-management disputes, ruling that Amaz... (more story)

Health Plans Defend Renewed Biogen MS Drug Scheme Suit

Health plans claiming Biogen Inc. illegally stifled competition for its multiple sclerosis drug Tecfidera have said an Illinois federal judge should let their latest complaint proceed to discovery because it f... (more story)

NLRB Official Orders Union Election At Idaho Albertson's

Meat department workers at an Albertson's store in Idaho can vote on representation by the United Food and Commercial Workers, but a National Labor Relations Board official denied their bid to join a multi-sto... (more story)

Discrimination More

Ex-Immigration Judge Accuses DOJ Of Political Retaliation

A former Ohio immigration judge sued the U.S. Department of Justice in D.C. federal court Monday, alleging she was discriminated against and unconstitutionally fired for her liberal political beliefs while sla... (more story)

Ex-Colo. Dean Claims Firing Tied To Book Ban Criticism

A former dean of a Colorado middle school has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the school district, alleging it fired her for criticizing a book ban that a court has since deemed unconstitutional and w... (more story)

The phrase "Sexual Harassment" printed on numerous strips of paper
Chancery Says Harassment Doesn't Breach Fiduciary Duty

Delaware's Chancery Court tossed a suit from the founder of a credit repair company who claimed an ex-director breached his fiduciary duties by engaging in sexual harassment that led to $1.8 million in judgmen... (more story)

Northwestern To Pay $75M To End Feds' Civil Rights Probes

Northwestern University will pay $75 million to the Trump administration in order to restore about $790 million in federal research funding and close the government's probes into whether the school violated ci... (more story)

4 Mass. Rulings You May Have Missed In November

A judge dismissed a flurry of proposed class actions alleging retailers flouted a Massachusetts law requiring that job applications include a notice of the state's ban on lie detectors, while a personal injury... (more story)

Engineer Says BLM Confrontation Got Him 'Blacklisted'

A construction worker has hit his former employer with a racial discrimination lawsuit alleging the Texas-based company refused to rehire him following COVID-related layoffs after he called out a coworker for ... (more story)

Catholic School Wants To Block Mich. Civil Rights Law

A Catholic school has asked a Michigan federal judge to rule that the state's anti-discrimination law is unconstitutional because it prevents the school from hiring teachers and instructing students in accorda... (more story)

Wage & Hour More

Plumber Seeks Collective Status In OT Wage Dispute

A Georgia plumber claiming he wasn't paid overtime wages told a federal court he has put forward enough evidence to show that all apprentices and technicians were expected to work long hours without proper com... (more story)

Nurses Collective, Class In OT Row Can Proceed

Nurses who accused an insurer of misclassifying them as overtime-exempt can keep their collective in place and proceed as a class, a North Carolina federal judge said in an order entered Monday, keeping in pla... (more story)

the top of a white building featuring red letters that spell out golden corral
Golden Corral Restaurant Workers Reach Wage Deal

Several Golden Corral franchises and their owner told a Virginia federal court Monday that they agreed to settle a collective action that accused them of forcing restaurant workers to inflate their tips so tha... (more story)

Calif. Cannabis Workers Settle Suit Over Quotas, Lack Of Pay

Hourly agricultural laborers who accused California cannabis company Glass House Brands Inc. and some of its subsidiaries of bilking them out of sick pay, minimum wage and lunch breaks while enforcing quotas h... (more story)

Warner Bros. Studio Operations Hit With Wage And Hour Suit

Warner Bros. Studio Operations and related companies made California employees work through their meal breaks, required them to work unpaid overtime and didn't pay them for on-call or standby time, according t... (more story)

JetBlue Can Settle With Wash. Putative Wage Class Members

A Washington state judge declined on Wednesday to block JetBlue from pursuing individual settlements with putative class members in a pending wage action, concluding the plaintiff workers hadn't shown "anythin... (more story)

Updated Deal To End School Bus Driver's Wage Suit Gets OK

A Georgia school district will pay nearly $9,000 to end a former bus driver's Fair Labor Standards Act suit alleging it didn't pay her for three months after she returned from an injury-related leave, with a f... (more story)