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May 30, 2025
Washington's highest court has lowered the bar for employees to sue over work-related illnesses, finding that in cases of latent diseases such as mesothelioma, a worker has a valid claim if they show their employer was "virtually certain" that the malady would develop.
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May 30, 2025
A former senior official with Wells Fargo Bank NA has filed suit in a California federal court to force the bank to comply with an order from a U.S. Department of Labor agency finding he is entitled to more than $20 million for purported retaliation after he blew the whistle on legal concerns and was subsequently fired.
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May 30, 2025
A solar energy company has sued four former employees in New Jersey federal court, claiming one of them altered his name to conceal criminal history, then left to start a competing company, and that three others aided him in taking trade secrets on his way out.
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May 30, 2025
A Washington federal judge has preserved a radar company's claims that a former executive stole confidential information as he left to start his own company, while dismissing other breach of contract claims against the executive and another former employee.
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May 30, 2025
President Donald Trump has nominated Paul Ingrassia, a lawyer and former right-wing writer, to lead the Office of Special Counsel after firing the previous one.
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May 30, 2025
Witnesses who worked for Sean "Diddy" Combs and saw his alleged abuses are a crucial component of federal prosecutors' racketeering case against the music icon, legal experts told Law360, as testimony from another anguished former worker came into the high-profile trial on Friday.
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May 30, 2025
A Texas state appeals court has upheld Friedman Suder & Cooke PC's win in its decade-long dispute with a former shareholder over the redemption of his shares when he was let go, affirming a trial court ruling declaring the redemption "effective and operative."
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May 30, 2025
A proposed class of employees at Pennsylvania-based gas and grocery chain Giant Eagle asked a federal court for preliminary approval of an almost $669,000 settlement of their claims that the company overspent their retirement savings on administrative fees.
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May 30, 2025
The Trump administration on Friday asked a D.C. federal judge to deny Shira Perlmutter's request for expedited briefing in her lawsuit challenging her firing as head of the U.S. Copyright Office, saying she has not shown there is an urgency to resolve the matter.
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May 29, 2025
A lawyer has asked the Second Circuit to revive claims against his former firm, which he alleges used his name and likeness after he was fired, saying a judge's dismissal of those claims ignored the harm he personally suffered and the requirements of the Lanham Act.
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May 29, 2025
An Oregon federal judge has partially sided with motions by Columbia Sportswear Co. and a former employee in a case alleging the worker took trade secrets with him when he left the company, but denied the bulk of the requests from all parties seeking to end the suit in their favor.
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May 29, 2025
The Second Circuit on Thursday upheld a $1.1 million award against a brokerage firm accused of making defamatory remarks about a former employee, ruling that Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitrators did not disregard the law in handing down the punishment.
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May 29, 2025
A former United Therapeutics Corp. executive lost his bid to toss his former employer's suit alleging he used stolen intellectual property to develop a lung disease drug for a competitor, with the North Carolina Business Court ruling that it was too soon to determine if the complaint was untimely.
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May 29, 2025
A hospital forced to suspend its normal business as it responded to the COVID-19 pandemic told a Washington federal court Thursday that it's entitled to an $11.5 million tax refund for employee retention credits and that the IRS has failed to deliver the promised aid.
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May 29, 2025
Massachusetts' highest court Thursday revived part of a lawsuit brought by a former appellate court staff attorney who said he was intentionally undermined by supervisors, finding that he had made a reasonable showing that two of the three original defendants had demonstrated actual malice toward him.
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May 29, 2025
Counsel for Seton Hall University told a New Jersey state court Thursday that contrary to the claims of former school President Joseph Nyre, it is not seeking to "muzzle" him regarding an investigation into whether the school's current president knew of sexual abuse allegations and didn't report them.
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May 28, 2025
Kevin Costner and the producers of the American West film series "Horizon" were sued in California state court by a stunt double who alleged she had to perform an impromptu, unscripted violent rape scene without an intimacy coordinator on set and other protocols under the actors' union contract.
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May 28, 2025
The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday appeared to raise doubts over a lower court's decision granting a University of Wisconsin football player another year of eligibility, questioning his claim that the National Collegiate Athletic Association's five-year rule restrains competition in violation of federal antitrust laws.
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May 28, 2025
An Indiana federal judge on Wednesday fined a Texas attorney $6,000 for filing three separate briefs using generative artificial intelligence that included fake citations in an ERISA case, imposing a personal sanction that was less than half the $15,000 fine a magistrate judge recommended.
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May 28, 2025
A New Jersey-based Amtrak employee has pled guilty to participating in a conspiracy to defraud the passenger railroad's health plan for an estimated $11 million in benefits, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey announced Wednesday.
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May 28, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice is pointing to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling to bolster its fight against a new trial being sought by a convicted Nevada nursing home executive, saying that the new high court decision establishes that economic loss isn't needed to prove wire fraud.
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May 28, 2025
A Connecticut radio executive who claims he played a key role in Soros Fund Management LLC's acquisition of Audacy Inc. is suing the fund and one of its leaders, saying he was boxed out of an alleged deal to become CEO or receive a 5% cut of the fund's profits.
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May 28, 2025
Attorneys handling a retirement benefits class action against chemical companies Corteva Inc. and DuPont have been awarded approximately $6 million in fees and just over $389,000 to cover litigation costs, according to a Pennsylvania federal judge's order.
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May 28, 2025
A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday declined to stop the Trump administration from ousting the former director of the U.S. Copyright Office, saying the recently fired official had not shown she would be irreparably harmed absent the court's intervention.
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May 27, 2025
The co-founder and former chief operating officer of OneTaste on Tuesday testified that he and ex-CEO Nicole Daedone manipulated adherents of the sexual wellness company's teachings and described how psychological pressure was used to keep workers in line, as the trial of its former top executive and the head of sales entered its third week.