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July 16, 2026
DENVER — A June 2026 infiltration of Frontier Airlines Inc.’s information network that resulted in the theft of employees’ personally identifiable information (PII) was the result of the airline’s failure “to take available steps to prevent an unauthorized disclosure of data,” according to several class complaints filed between July 13 and July 15 in a federal court in Colorado.
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July 15, 2026
ATLANTA — The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a suit filed by employees of an airline and airline staffing company alleging in part that their employers’ protocols related to the COVID-19 pandemic created a hostile work environment, finding that the lower court correctly determined that the employees failed to state a claim against Atlas Air Inc. and that the lower court lacked personal jurisdiction over Flight Services International LLC.
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July 15, 2026
DENVER — A two-judge panel of the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversed and remanded a New Mexico federal judge’s dismissal of a former Walmart worker’s hostile work environment claims against his employer, while also affirming the dismissal of other federal and state sex discrimination claims, finding that the worker “provided evidence that he was subjected to a significant amount of anti-gay discrimination at work, including at least two outrageous acts.”
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July 15, 2026
SAN DIEGO — An IT staffing company accused of failing to protect the personally identifiable information (PII) of current and former employees will pay $610,000 to end the class claims, according to an order in a federal court in California granting final settlement approval.
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July 14, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two former employees of the University System of Georgia, in a dispute over whether they can privately sue their public employer for sex discrimination under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, urge the U.S. Supreme Court in a petitioner brief to maintain its longstanding position that private damages actions are available under Title IX when a federally funded recipient intentionally violates the statute.
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July 13, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A member of the National Labor Relations Board who was fired by President Donald J. Trump in January 2025 even though her term was not set to expire until March 2028 has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court asking the justices to decide two questions related to removals of NLRB members.
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July 13, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following an audit prompted by allegations involving Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action litigation, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released a public report finding that the agency “did not establish sufficient controls for how it shared confidential information using common interest agreements with non-governmental entities.”
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July 09, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — In holding that the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution “has been construed to require federal government agencies to adhere to their own binding regulations,” a Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals majority affirmed a federal judge’s partial grant of a motion for preliminary injunction in a lawsuit filed by national security workers alleging that they were wrongly forced to choose resignation or termination because they were in temporary assignments related to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA).
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July 09, 2026
BALTIMORE — A federal judge in Maryland denied a motion to rescind an April discovery order in a suit by a union and two groups representing a combined 7 million Americans who opposed individuals working for U.S. DOGE Service and U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization (together, DOGE) being provided access to Social Security Administration (SSA) records.
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July 08, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court denied petitions for writs of certiorari in three cases filed by terminated and demoted employees under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Rehabilitation Act and the First Amendment alleging religious discrimination for failing to get vaccinated for COVID, and retaliation for requesting accommodations after an injury and posting controversial political commentary on a personal Facebook page.
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July 07, 2026
CINCINNATI — Following denials of petitions for rehearing en banc in two separate but related cases, a Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel denied motions filed by a road construction company to stay mandates enforcing National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) orders in a more than eight-year bargaining dispute.
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July 07, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Permitting an interlocutory appeal on the viability of the disparate impact claim under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) in a case over artificial intelligence-based hiring discrimination where the ADEA collective was already provisionally certified, discovery is ongoing and an amended complaint has been filed would not “materially advance the ultimate termination of the litigation,” a federal judge in California ruled, denying the motion for certification of an interlocutory appeal filed by the defendant, a human resources management and applicant-screening services company.
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July 06, 2026
ATLANTA — A Georgia federal judge on July 2 granted preliminary approval to a $47.75 million deal that would resolve a long-running suit over lump-sum payments from terminated “top hat” plans that provided life annuities for NCR Corp. executives; the executives said that under the deal, the average gross settlement for 189 members of an opt-out settlement class would exceed $252,000.
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July 02, 2026
BOSTON — A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled, in granting summary judgment to eight federal sector labor organizations, that an interim final rule (IFR) that would have stripped U.S. Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) regional directors of all union representation responsibilities and required all cases to be handled directly by the authority was arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and ordered vacatur of the rule.
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July 01, 2026
OAKLAND, Calif. — In a June 30 joint notice that was filed just over a week before a bench trial was scheduled to begin, parties in a long-running Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action over severance benefits told a California federal court “that they have reached agreement on all terms of their proposed class action settlement and expect to have a fully executed Memorandum of Understanding within the next few days.”
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July 01, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — The filing of an amended complaint in an artificial intelligence-based hiring discrimination case did not eradicate the need for interlocutory appeal on the viability of the disparate-impact claim under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, but to the extent that it does, allowing the filing of a new motion for judgment would facilitate appellate review, Workday Inc. argues in a supplemental brief filed in a California federal court.
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July 01, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 denied a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) who asked the justices to review her February 2025 removal by President Donald J. Trump.
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July 01, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 denied an application by President Donald J. Trump and others to stay an interlocutory injunction in a case over the president’s ability to remove Shira Perlmutter from her position as the register of copyrights and director of the U.S. Copyright Office.
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July 01, 2026
TRENTON, N.J. — A federal judge in New Jersey granted final approval of an $8.5 million settlement by FedEx Ground Package System Inc. to end a class complaint alleging the shipper violated New Jersey wage law by failing to pay hourly warehouse workers for actions they were required to undertake before and after their shifts.
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June 30, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A divided U.S. Supreme Court on June 29 denied a petition for writ of certiorari filed by a group of health care workers seeking review of whether a now-repealed New York COVID-19 vaccine regulation violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the U.S. Constitution, with Justice Neil Gorsuch offering a dissent stating that it would have been “well worth” the court’s time to address the case and that correcting the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ interpretation of Title VII “should have been an easy business.”
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June 30, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court requested a response after a waiver of the right to respond by federal judicial branch officials and administrators sued in their official capacities in a workplace harassment and discrimination case to a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by a former assistant federal public defender seeking a determination on the legality of the judiciary’s internal employment dispute resolution (EDR) plan for resolving discrimination and harassment claims and the plan’s compliance with legal protections.
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June 29, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a pair of opinions issued by a divided U.S. Supreme Court on June 29 concerning two federal officials, the high court majority in the first overruled Humphrey’s Executor v. United States and opined that the president has the power to fire a Federal Trade Commission commissioner at will; in the second opinion, a high court majority declined President Donald J. Trump’s application to stay an injunction keeping a member of the Federal Reserve System Board of Governors in her post while her case challenging her purported firing continues as the majority opined that the Federal Reserve is an independent entity.
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June 24, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A majority of the en banc District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals granted a limited remand in a federal agency’s appeal of a preliminary injunction that halted the termination of more than 1,400 workers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) for the trial court to consider “whether to modify, suspend, or dissolve the preliminary injunction” in light of developments identified by the CFPB, which included a revised reduction-in-force (RIF) plan, changes to CFPB’s funding and the Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. CASA, Inc.
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June 24, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Trade Commission ordered a national pest control company to stop issuing and enforcing “unfair and anticompetitive” noncompete agreements on “many thousands of current and former” employees, resolving allegations that the “longstanding” policy requiring all newly hired workers to enter into the agreements violated the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTCA).
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June 24, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court should deny a petition by U.S. DOGE Service (referred to as both DOGE and USDS), the DOGE acting administrator, Elon Musk and others in the federal government asking the justices to take up for the second time questions concerning discovery in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case regarding DOGE’s authority and role in mass firings in the federal government as the case does not warrant review, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) argues in its opposition brief.