The D.C. Circuit is set to ponder the NLRB's new bargaining order standard in Red Rock Casino Resort and Spa's challenge to a board ruling that it tanked a union's organizing effort. Law360 previews the court's first look at the Cemex standard.

Google will shell out $48 million and app developer Flo Health will pay $8 million to resolve a class action over the popular menstrual tracking app's allegedly unlawful sharing of sensitive health data with Google and others through online tracking tools.

A recent Trump administration memo clarifying that federal employees can request to telework for religious reasons will likely reverberate in the private sector, where employers have already seen a surge in faith-based accommodation requests.

California established model safety standards for the ride-hailing industry and Uber exceeded them, a former lobbyist for Lyft told jurors in a trial over claims Uber negligently failed to put sufficient measures in place to prevent sexual assaults.

Big corporate bankruptcies are on the rise, with 17 companies that hold more than $1 billion in assets each filing for bankruptcy in the 1st half of 2025, marking the highest number of filings in any 6-month period since the onset of the pandemic in 2020.

A Virginia federal judge wondered aloud if it's necessary to break up Google LLC's advertising placement technology business, or if she can address the monopolies targeted by the U.S. Department of Justice through a "strict set of requirements."

As CME Group faced a $2 billion accusation its data center trampled on trading floor rights, it knew convincing jurors otherwise meant trusting they'd broaden their perspective to see the traders' dispute was not with the exchange but an evolving economy. www.law360.com/artic...

A judge declined to reinstate inspectors general whom Trump fired without warning or rationale, finding that while it's "obvious" the president violated federal law governing the removal of inspectors general, the plaintiffs haven't shown irreparable harm.

An Amazon user experience researcher told a colleague that documentation of consumers' frustration with the Prime sign-up process "will be the thing that loses the case" for Amazon if an FTC suit were to reach trial, according to a message shown to a jury.

Xcel Energy, Colorado's largest utility company, said that it plans to pay roughly $640 million to settle litigation that accused it of causing or contributing to the state's devastating 2021 Marshall Fire.

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The Missouri Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on a law that bans gender-affirming care for minors and restricts Medicaid coverage for transgender care at any age, but the justices gave little indication of how they might rule. www.law360.com/artic...

A group of Oklahoma medical marijuana interests allege in a new federal lawsuit that state officials are unlawfully hindering their operations as part of a broad crackdown on the industry. www.law360.com/artic...

A group of Division I athletes looking to be classified as employees filed a succinct reply chiding the NCAA and several prestigious universities for their "hundreds of pages" of "repetitive, overlapping" arguments that rehash points already made. www.law360.com/artic...

A pair of suits challenging health plan coverage exclusions on gender-affirming care for minors are headed to district court after the Fourth Circuit vacated decisions finding those policies discriminatory. www.law360.com/artic...

Wireless industry players are having problems with local permitting that would be fixed by the FCC's new proposal, which would use federal preemption to help companies clear permitting hurdles, according to a major trade group. www.law360.com/artic...

Labor and employment firm Fisher Phillips is expanding its West Coast team, announcing Wednesday it is bringing in a Gibbs Giden litigator as a partner in its Woodland Hills, California, office.

The Georgia Court of Appeals Wednesday reversed a trial court order that refused to recognize the legitimacy of a woman's parental relationship to a child conceived by artificial insemination during her marriage to another woman. www.law360.com/artic...

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal is seeking answers from the Federal Aviation Administration on the calculations behind a proposed fine of $3.1 million against Boeing for safety violations that led to last year's Alaska Airlines door plug incident. www.law360.com/artic...

States should be able to use money left over from federal grants aimed at broadband deployment for other projects to boost high-tech growth, a Republican senator said.

A new wrongful death complaint brought by the wife of an American Eagle Flight 5342 victim names both American Airlines and the United States government as liable in the "wholly avoidable tragedy" that killed 67 people on the Potomac River in January. www.law360.com/artic...

A now-former Massachusetts Probate and Family Court justice will pay a $4,000 civil penalty for appointing his father to a $450 an hour special master role in a divorce case.

A Texas law firm is stepping up its litigation efforts to recover $1.7 million in fees it claims it is owed for work performed on behalf of victims of a 2017 mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other groups challenging the FTC's recent overhaul of its premerger reporting requirements told a Texas federal court the changes create an unnecessary burden for thousands of deals that raise no competition concerns. www.law360.com/artic...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday named a new deputy director of the agency's Division of Trading and Markets who previously served in senior roles at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has allocated more than $1.5 billion to states and tribal communities that the agency says will provide critical resources in addressing the country's opioid overdose crisis. www.law360.com/artic...

California's oldest independent bookstore chain, Books Inc., received approval Wednesday from a bankruptcy judge for a $3.25 million sale to Barnes & Noble, and hopes to close on the sale Oct. 1. www.law360.com/artic...

Multinational companies with revenues above €1 million from an EU country would be deemed to have a permanent establishment subject to taxation there under amendments that a European Parliament committee incorporated into a proposed corporate tax base directive.

Law students typically have weeks or months to prepare for any given deadline, but the unpredictability of practicing in the real world means that lawyers must become time-management pros, says David Thomas at Honigman. www.law360.com/artic...

Top officials at the U.S. Department of Justice are in hot water for linking alleged insurance CEO killer Luigi Mangione to left-wing terrorism and potentially violating his right to a fair trial, a New York federal judge said Wednesday.

A recent Trump administration memo clarifying that federal employees can request to telework for religious reasons will likely reverberate in the private sector, where employers have already seen a surge in faith-based accommodation requests, experts say.

TenneT Holding has agreed to sell a 46% stake in its German transmission business, TenneT Germany, to three institutional investors, raising up to €9.5 billion ($11.2 billion) in new equity to fund the expansion of the country's high-voltage grid.

A federal judge said he harbors no bias against the women suing Katt Williams, but he has "concern about the quality of legal representation" they're receiving after an explanation given for a brief that contained erroneous case citations generated by AI.

PeopleFacts has agreed to pay $2.4 million to job seekers whose criminal history was shared with employers without a notice required by the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

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A group of 16 states asked a federal judge not to let the U.S. Department of Education escape the states' claims that the agency violated federal law by discontinuing mental health grants given to public schools to help students cope with school shootings. www.law360.com/artic...

A group of detainees are accusing the New York City Department of Correction of violating the state's landmark law restricting solitary confinement, saying they have been locked in their cells for up to 24 hours a day at Rikers Island despite the ban. www.law360.com/artic...

The Ninth Circuit reopened a lawsuit alleging that a Washington sheriff's department failed to stop a deputy sheriff who coerced a woman he had previously arrested into a seven-year sexual relationship. www.law360.com/artic...

The former U.S. attorney for the Western District of New York is making the move to private practice next month at Harter Secrest.

A proposed class action filed in Pennsylvania federal court Tuesday claims PNC Financial Services suffered a data breach affecting 740,000 customers and should be held liable for not protecting their personal information. www.law360.com/artic...

Labcorp and Natera reached a midtrial settlement over the laboratory testing giant's claims that its competitor infringed a group of DNA sequencing patents through the sale of a cancer testing product. www.law360.com/artic...

A Manhattan federal judge teed up a trial for a Bronx assistant public housing superintendent accused of taking $14,000 in bribes, as an anti-corruption sweep targeting 70 New York City Housing Authority workers inched toward an end. www.law360.com/artic...

Sen. Jon Ossoff has urged the Judicial Conference to take further action to ensure that all defendants, particularly low-income ones, have access to counsel for their initial appearance in federal court. www.law360.com/artic...

Delaware's Supreme Court early Wednesday upheld the Court of Chancery's Sept. 10 dismissal of a stockholder challenge to the $10.5 billion take-private deal for software as a service business Zendesk Inc., closing the book on the case In two sentences. www.law360.com/artic...

A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to four years behind bars for scamming two lenders out of $72 million that he said would go toward buying insurance companies, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Philadelphia.

As James W. Mizgala prepares to take over as managing partner of Tucker Ellis LLP, he spoke to Law360 Pulse about succeeding a longtime managing partner and his perspective on the future of the firm.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's former patent commissioner, who resigned from her position in February as the president slashed the federal workforce, has joined McDermott Will & Schulte as a counsel in Washington, D.C.

HSBC has emerged as one of the first banks to confirm it is harnessing artificial intelligence under the new "failure to prevent fraud" offense that targets companies benefiting from fraud committed by employees.

Federal judges in Connecticut have begun entering warnings on new case dockets notifying litigants and their counsel of a "no-tolerance policy" when it comes to briefs that include hallucinated arguments and citations, regardless of whether AI was used.

In August, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP held a full-scale, hands-on training for its international arbitration associates — an investment that firm leaders say not only helped to build legal skills but also strengthened relationships within the team.