Trump’s About-Face in Law Firm Fights Casts Pall Over ABA Suit
Justice Department lawyers are heading to court today to defend President Donald Trump’s attacks on law firms after the administration backtracked on a move to drop out of those fights.

The Labor Department’s ever-shifting standards for defining independent contractors, combined with US Supreme Court precedent weakening agency authority, will likely diminish the impact of new Trump rulemaking on gig worker litigation.
Regulatory and legislative hurdles, along with a slew of unanswered practical questions, will pose significant challenges as the Trump administration seeks to turn its newly announced 401(k) expansion plan into a reality.

Justice Department lawyers are heading to court today to defend President Donald Trump’s attacks on law firms after the administration backtracked on a move to drop out of those fights.
Concerns about how President
The federal government wants to recruit attorneys after a year of cutting staff in nearly every agency.
A group of former
A Mitre Corp. engineer with long-haul Covid was properly awarded more than $210,000 in disability benefits from Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co., the Fourth Circuit said in an opinion weighing ERISA’s claims procedures.
Two senior aides to Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer have resigned after spending weeks on leave due to an ongoing investigation into claims that the secretary had an inappropriate relationship with a coworker and committed travel fraud.
The deceased co-founder of a defunct manufacturing company was wrongly denied nearly $1.8 million in pension benefits, the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday in a case pitting a daughter against her mother’s estate.
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Florida federal court denied summary judgment on FMLA claims by a supervisor terminated for leaving work during a hurricane to care for his wife, finding factual disputes about the qualifying condition, notice, and reasons for termination. Burrows v. Prummell, 2026 BL 23402, M.D. Fla., 2:25-cv-11-JES-NPM, 1/26/26
The court granted UPMC Health Plan Inc. and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center summary judgment on out-of-network provider Abira Medical Laboratories LLC’s breach of contract and unjust enrichment claims, and granted Abira summary judgment on UPMC’s counterclaims. Abira Med. Labs. LLC v. UPMC Health Plan Inc., 2025 BL 393062, E.D. Pa., 24-cv-0227, 11/3/25
The court denied Arrow Mutual Liability Insurance Company and The Arrow Mutual 401(k) Plan’s motion to dismiss this ERISA action alleging wrongful withholding of Arrow’s late President and CEO’s employer contribution sub-account. Gray v. Arrow Mut. Liab. Ins. Co., 2025 BL 390109, D. Mass., 25-10054-NMG, 10/29/25
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