Airline Group Sues Over Michigan’s Expanded Sick Time Law
An airline trade group, after successfully taking on paid sick time laws in other states, now has its sights set on Michigan.
Significant developments are anticipated this year over legal requirements to sustain discrimination claims involving religious accommodation requests, diversity practices, and gender-based harassment.
The Labor Department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration shifted dramatically in 2025 as the Trump administration derailed several Biden-era rules and priorities and began setting its own goals.
A Manhattan federal judge invalidated the Trump administration’s decision to effectively eliminate mediation services for many labor disputes, deeming it illegal.
The Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda faces one of its toughest obstacles in rewriting a Biden-era requirement that mines cut respirable silica levels, a move industry observers say will spur new lawsuits.

The US government and other major employers like Amazon.com Inc., Deloitte LLP, and JPMorgan Chase led the continued push in 2025 for workers to return to the office from at-home arrangements established during the Covid-19 pandemic.
An airline trade group, after successfully taking on paid sick time laws in other states, now has its sights set on Michigan.
The Trump administration abandoned its appeal to a federal judge’s decision halting government staff cuts stemming from last year’s government shutdown.
Delta Dental Insurance Co. misleads patients over how much out-of-network care is covered under its plans, according to a proposed class action.
Workers provided enough evidence to support their jury victory in a lawsuit alleging five mining companies acted as a single employer and failed to warn them of an impending layoff, an appeals court said Friday.
The US government’s termination of temporary deportation protections for 60,000 immigrants from Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal was unlawful, a San Francisco federal judge ruled, the latest setback in the Trump administration’s legal defense of its immigration policies.
Latham & Watkins expects the brisk pace of deals work to continue in the new year after dethroning Kirkland & Ellis as Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions adviser in 2025.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) said she will push to eliminate state taxes on tipped income in her upcoming budget plan, echoing the new federal treatment of tips in the 2025 GOP tax law.
Call it the Great Continental Drift: professionals are yearning to trade the chaos and costs of life in the US for Europe’s perceived calm and social safety nets.
High profile unionization efforts at companies like Amazon and Starbucks have drawn renewed interest in labor laws. In this video, we look at what’s legal and what isn't when a company's employees want to unionize.
The Virginia man accused of planting pipe bombs near national political committee offices in January 2021 must be detained while awaiting trial, a Washington federal judge ruled.
The US Supreme Court will hear argument in March over whether the Second Amendment allows a federal law banning firearm possession by drug users.
The City of Houston won’t pay $116,359 in opposing attorney’s fees because it conceded in the early stages of litigation that it couldn’t enforce an unconstitutional law banning non-residents from circulating a petition for a ballot ordinance, the Fifth Circuit ruled Friday.
Latham & Watkins expects the brisk pace of deals work to continue in the new year after dethroning Kirkland & Ellis as Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions adviser in 2025.
There was perhaps no bigger story last year in the world of Big Law than President Donald Trump’s attacks on several of the nation’s largest law firms through punitive executive orders due to political affiliations and adversarial hires.
California’s response to the Trump administration has prompted a flood of litigation, with several major hearings over the line between state law and federal authority teed up for hearings early in 2026.

A Georgia federal district court granted summary judgment to Columbus Consolidated Government on the claims of a correctional officer that he was discharged due to his heart condition and in retaliation for taking extended medical leave, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Graham v. Columbus Consol. Gov’t, 2025 BL 458351, M.D. Ga., 4:24-cv-119 (CDL), 12/22/25
An Illinois federal court denied the Chicago Transit Authority’s motion for judgment as a matter of law, but ordered a new trial, on the claims of a Catholic employee who was discharged after refusing to follow a Covid-19 vaccine mandate, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. McCormick v. Chi. Transit Auth., 2025 BL 458892, N.D. Ill., 23 C 1998, 12/22/25
A Michigan federal district court granted summary judgment to Trinity Health Grand Rapids on the claims of an anesthesiologist with a possible mental health condition that he was discharged for refusing to submit to a mental health exam, in violation of the ADA and state law. Robitaille v. Trinity Health Grand Rapids, 2025 BL 453534, W.D. Mich., 1:24-cv-1336, 12/17/25
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