The Eleventh Circuit declined Tuesday to grant a trucking company a new trial on a $3.4 million verdict handed to an applicant who claimed the business walked back a job offer after learning that he is Black, ruling his attorney's "improper" arguments didn't taint the trial's outcome.
A Sixth Circuit decision upholding a U.S. Department of Labor rule barring third-party home care employers from claiming certain Fair Labor Standards Act exemptions could affect both the department’s proposed rewrite of the regulation and the litigation likely to follow, attorneys say. Here, Law360 looks at three takeaways from the decision.
The legal fight over President Donald Trump's executive order to cancel union contracts covering about two-thirds of the federal civilian workforce continues a year after the president flexed his power to cut ties with unions because of national security concerns.