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August 05, 2025
A South Carolina federal judge refused Tuesday to toss a suit seeking to hold Sauer Brands liable for severe chemical burns suffered by an EcoLab worker who was servicing machinery at a food plant, saying workers' compensation immunity doesn't apply.
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August 05, 2025
Connecticut's former top criminal prosecutor has agreed to pay a $7,000 civil penalty to settle an Office of State Ethics probe into his hiring of a former budget boss's daughter while seeking a raise for himself, ending allegations that he violated state ethics laws without admitting any wrongdoing.
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August 05, 2025
The firmwide executive compensation and employee benefits chair at Baker Botts LLP became the 20th U.S. lateral partner to join White & Case LLP this year, according to a Tuesday announcement.
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August 05, 2025
Red Cat Holdings Inc. and its Teal Drones Inc. unit accused a former executive of sabotaging a major product development deal and using their trade secrets to launch a rival drone company to compete for government sales.
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August 05, 2025
Pharmaceutical startup Transpire Bio has accused Lupin Pharmaceuticals and its affiliates of stealing trade secrets related to the development of generic inhalers, alleging in a Florida federal complaint that a Lupin scientist briefly took a job with Transpire and returned to Lupin with confidential information.
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August 05, 2025
A Washington state appeals court won't disturb a jury's finding that a flight attendant was entitled to coverage of a spine surgery for an injury she sustained while working for Alaska Airlines, saying the trial court judge rightly rejected the airline's proposed jury instruction for its confusion.
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August 04, 2025
The American Bar Association proposed reducing the size of its board of governors and proportionally cutting the number of seats reserved for women, people of color and other underrepresented groups, as the organization's president Monday reiterated a commitment to "rule of law, due process, access to justice, fairness and diversity."
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August 04, 2025
A California federal court has ordered Nano Banc and several former employees and executives to pay $40 million to rival Axos Bank after they were found liable for trade secret misappropriation and other claims.
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August 04, 2025
Last week at the Delaware Court of Chancery, insurance brokerage and risk management giant Marsh & McLennan Cos. sought injunctive relief in a new suit accusing U.S. affiliates of London-based Howden Holdings Ltd. of a poaching scheme that involved over 100 M&M employees resigning on July 21.
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August 01, 2025
A ruling from Michigan's highest court creates uncertainty for employers about the enforceability of contractually shortened limitation periods in the state, attorneys told Law360.
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August 01, 2025
Insurance brokerage and risk management giant Marsh & McLennan Cos. sued U.S. affiliates of London-based Howden Holdings Ltd. in Delaware's Court of Chancery on Friday, alleging Howden arranged a mass "lift out" of M&M employees and clients around the country.
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August 01, 2025
Four Alaska Airlines flight attendants aboard the 737 Max 9 jet that experienced a midair door plug blowout have sued jet-maker Boeing in Washington state court alleging the harrowing January 2024 incident left them with physical and mental injuries, including severe emotional distress.
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August 01, 2025
Lamborghini has told a Texas federal court that a case brought by an Italian auto racing engineering firm alleging the sports carmaker stole steering wheel trade secrets is best left to Italian courts and is part of a long-running business dispute in that country.
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August 01, 2025
An Arizona federal court was right to deny a request by tax services firms to stop the IRS from issuing batch denials of thousands of pandemic-era worker credit claims, the U.S. told the Ninth Circuit, defending the agency's system for handling problems administering the tax credit.
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August 01, 2025
The former head of the U.S. Copyright Office will appeal a D.C. federal judge's denial of her request to be immediately reinstated to her former position after she was fired by President Donald Trump while her suit remains pending.
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August 01, 2025
Department store retailer Dillard's has asked for a special shareholder's vote on Aug. 19 on management's plan to move its incorporation from Delaware to Texas, becoming the latest company to join the so-called DExit trend.
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August 01, 2025
Broadfield, a new global law firm with offices in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, announced Wednesday that it is setting up its first U.S. office in New York with a team of five founding partners who previously worked for Venable LLP, Dentons, Otterbourg PC and Robinson & Cole.
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August 01, 2025
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC announced the launch of a dedicated practice group focused on handling employment tax matters in areas such as compliance, audits and transactions related to payroll obligations.
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August 01, 2025
A former employee of Flat Rock Metal and Bar Processing has asked a Michigan federal judge to grant a green light to a $1.8 million settlement in a suit claiming the trustees of the company's employee stock ownership plan allowed the plan to buy $60 million in company stock at an inflated price.
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July 31, 2025
A legal watchdog group Thursday lodged bar complaints against a trio of U.S. Department of Justice lawyers, accusing them of making misleading and false statements in court filings while defending the Trump administration in litigation over its attempt to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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July 31, 2025
Air traffic controllers often juggled both helicopter and fixed-wing plane traffic at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, trusted pilots to use their own judgment to visually maintain safe distances from other planes in certain situations and adopted a "just make it work" approach, according to details from the National Transportation Safety Board.
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July 31, 2025
A professional pharmacy organization and a group of teaching hospitals teed up motions to dismiss Wednesday against proposed class action allegations that they conspired to restrict wages and benefits by funneling new pharmacists through a job-matching program, telling a Maryland federal judge that there's no sign of an agreement.
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July 31, 2025
The Garden State's Police and Firemen's Retirement System improperly distributed more than $200,000 in unpaid pension benefits to the estranged spouse of a deceased Newark police officer, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Thursday, ordering the money to be redirected to his estate.
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July 31, 2025
The former CEO of an oil and gas company in Colorado has filed a complaint in state court against the company and its current CEO, claiming he was put on administrative leave without being informed of his alleged misconduct and was defamed by the new top executive.
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July 31, 2025
The Michigan Supreme Court held Thursday that employment agreements that limit how much time employees have to sue their employer must be examined for reasonableness before they are enforced by courts.