The battle over when employers are liable for the sexual harassment of one of their workers by a client, student, or other third party shifted to the US Supreme Court and the Third Circuit in separate new filings.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is pressing the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration in a letter to respond to new data that reveals the agency performed fewer inspections and issued fewer fines for severe workplace violations in 2025.
Tens of thousands of people from households with mixed immigration status would lose access to public housing benefits under a proposal from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Trader Joe’s Co. failed to convince a federal appeals court to nix a National Labor Relations Board decision finding the company illegally disciplined and fired a worker who complained about Covid-19 safety.
United Auto Workers members overwhelmingly approved a four-year contract with Volkswagen AG, a groundbreaking win for the union that has struggled to organize southern auto plants.
Washington, DC, police closed a sexual assault investigation into Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s husband after federal prosecutors found no indication of a crime, a police spokesperson confirmed.
South Korea said a US Supreme Court
Detroit’s automakers learned Friday night that they had been spared from tariffs that President
In early 2024, the agency that oversees cybersecurity for much of the US government issued a rare emergency order — disconnect your Connect Secure virtual private network software immediately. Chinese spies had hacked the code and infiltrated nearly two dozen organizations.
Anthropic released Claude Code a year ago, forcing other rivals to play catch-up.
A FuboTV Inc. stockholder is challenging a part of the company’s certificate of incorporation that grants a single stockholder an “exclusive right” to stop company directors from being removed from office.
Illinois-based Apex Hospice & Palliative Care Inc. and its former medical director reached a confidential settlement of a False Claims Act suit alleging the company fired her in retaliation for calling attention to Medicare fraud, a federal district court said Friday.
The US Supreme Court decision rejecting the Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs divided its six conservative justices over a doctrine that they’ve used to rein in the administrative state.
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.
A prominent plaintiff’s attorney in the social media addiction trial unfolding in Los Angeles lost his leadership role Friday after twice breaking the court’s rules on technology use in the building.
Federal judges appointed a new top federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia on Friday, drawing an immediate rebuke from a top Justice Department official who announced the pick was fired.
Former Massachusetts federal Judge Mark Wolf, who said he stepped down from the bench last year to freely raise concerns about President Donald Trump, created a stressful culture for his chambers staff, according to seven former employees.
Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, who wrote notable opinions upholding both Obamacare and same-sex marriage bans, plans to step away from active status, handing President Donald Trump a rare appellate vacancy to fill as judges have been slow to retire in his second presidency.
A New Jersey trial court refused to stay an order disqualifying Beasley Allen from the sprawling litigation involving more than 70,000 ovarian cancer claims by users of
McGlinchey Stafford, the New Orleans-based law firm that shuttered last month, filed for bankruptcy to address more than $10 million in liabilities with former lawyers, vendors, and large financial institutions.
A New York federal court denied a home healthcare company’s request to reduce FLSA liquidated damages, finding they lacked good faith and reasonableness in failing to track or pay overtime for live-in aides’ interrupted meal and sleep breaks. Chavez-Deremer v. Sarene Servs., 2026 BL 53610, E.D.N.Y., 2:20-cv-3273 (NJC) (ST), 2/18/26
A Missouri federal court denied Jost Chemical’s motion to dismiss a chemical line operator’s Title VII race discrimination claim, ruling the EEOC’s dismissal of the charge satisfied administrative requirements despite the right-to-sue notice being issued before 180 days had passed. Leckrone v. Jost Chem. Co., 2026 BL 53421, E.D. Mo., 4:25-cv-01660-AGF, 2/18/26
An Illinois federal court denied dismissal of Title VII discrimination and retaliation claims by a Hispanic mechanic who was fired after complaining about harassment, finding he exhausted administrative remedies and adequately stated his claims. Munoz v. Dart Container Corp. of Ill., 2026 BL 53302, N.D. Ill., 25 CV 8707, 2/18/26
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