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June 19, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal judge granted final approval of a $515,000 nonreversionary class settlement and $2,500 service awards for each of two named plaintiffs in a suit alleging that a marine manufacturer failed to safeguard personally identifiable information (PII) of employees and benefit recipients that was allegedly accessed during an April 2023 cyberattack.
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June 19, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In response to a petition for a writ of certiorari filed in the U.S. Supreme Court by the former publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, both the National Labor Relations Board and the union that represented the paper’s editorial department employees in a yearslong labor dispute say the petition should be denied, arguing that no significant legal conflict warranting high court intervention exists and that the questions presented mischaracterize the case and raise issues that are not actually presented or were not preserved.
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June 19, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — An interlocutory appeal filed by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) in its lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board’s structure was dismissed by the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals following the NLRB’s dismissal of charges in underlying administrative cases because of a ruling by the National Mediation Board (NMB) that the NLRB lacks jurisdiction because SpaceX is governed by the Railway Labor Act (RLA), not the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).
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June 18, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A labor union that represents workers in 38 federal agencies and departments filed an amended complaint on June 17 in a federal court in the District of Columbia in a lawsuit that challenges a Jan. 20, 2025, executive order (EO); the initial complaint was filed the same day as President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration day order that moved numerous federal workers into a new excepted service category and alleged that the intent behind the EO was to clear the way to fire the workers.
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June 18, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — In a ruling on a question of first impression, a split Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel reversed a Pennsylvania federal judge’s award of “overtime gap time” pay to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) as part of a more than $35.8 million damages package in a wage and hour violations suit, holding that the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not provide a cause of action for unpaid, non-overtime hours, even when the hours occurred in a week in which overtime was worked.
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June 17, 2026
BALTIMORE — A federal judge in Maryland held that a nonprofit legal services organization that serves the LGBTQ+ community does not have standing to sue the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over a “Trans Exclusion Policy” that limits charge investigations involving gender-identity discrimination claims to just hiring, firing and promotion and dismissed claims alleging violations of Title VII, the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the U.S. constitution without prejudice.
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June 17, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — A federal court in Virginia “committed legal error” and “erroneously ignored the directive of our binding Bojangles [Stafford v. Bojangles’ Restaurants, Inc.] precedent” when it determined that a proposed class of Anheuser-Busch LLC employees who allege they were not paid for pre- and post-shift activities met Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23’s commonality and predominance requirements, a Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled, finding “significant variation in the” employees’ work.
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June 16, 2026
CINCINNATI — A Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel denied a petition for rehearing filed by a road construction company seeking review of whether it should be allowed to challenge the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)’s dismissal of an employee union’s decertification petition in a more than eight-year bargaining dispute as another rehearing petition in a similar case awaits a ruling.
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June 16, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on June 15 denied a petition for writ of certiorari filed by Macy’s Inc. in which it sought review of whether neutral practices can be “inherently destructive” under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and whether the National Labor Relations Board could require compensation for worker financial harms in a long-running collective bargaining dispute with the board and the union representing groups of locked-out employees.
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June 16, 2026
PORTLAND, Ore. — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel will not rehear or certify a question to the Oregon Supreme Court regarding a decision in a years-long wage dispute to revive both individual and class claims brought by Jack in the Box workers alleging that they were entitled to compensation for shortened meal breaks, thereby reinforcing a decision to reverse and remand the earlier ruling.
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June 12, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a response to a formal request from the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) issued an opinion stating that the guidelines the commission uses to evaluate disparate-impact liability under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act “are unconstitutional because they contemplate liability based on disparate effects alone, without regard to an employer’s likely intent, and pressure employers to engage in race-based decisionmaking.”
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June 10, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A former employee of a Georgia district attorney’s office who filed a federal discrimination suit against her employer after she was terminated while pregnant is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn and send back an appellate court ruling that favored her employer, arguing in her petitioner brief that the appellate court wrongly ignored the language of three Federal Rules of Civil Procedure by allowing her employer to win summary judgment based on an affirmative defense that was never included in its pleadings.
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June 09, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on June 8 denied three petitions for a writ of certiorari seeking review of workplace discrimination and retaliation claims pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and various state statutes filed by a Michigan brewer, a Turkish-American Texas school district employee and a Russian immigrant who worked at an Alabama Walmart.
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June 09, 2026
CINCINNATI — A Kentucky distiller argues in response to petitions for rehearing en banc filed in the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that a split panel properly set aside a National Labor Relations Board bargaining order based on Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC, arguing that the decision neither created a circuit split nor conflicted with other courts' rulings.
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June 09, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a split decision, a District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held that current, active transgender service members who filed a lawsuit challenging a federal executive order (EO) banning transgender people from the U.S. military are protected by a preliminary injunction from implementation of the ban issued by a D.C. federal judge but opined that the injunction does not protect anyone seeking to join the military or current service members who have not joined the suit.
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June 08, 2026
OAKLAND, Calif. — Rejecting the defendants’ arguments regarding the impact of a nine-factor test the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals instituted concerning releases in Employee Retirement Income Security Act cases, a California federal judge on June 4 issued separate orders denying motions to decertify the class and reopen discovery and then on June 5 amended the latter order to clarify that a bench trial in the long-running case over severance benefits is scheduled to start July 9.
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June 05, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — An employee who settled individual wage-and-hour claims following decertification of a collective action and two classes lacks standing to appeal that decertification decision, a Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled, dismissing the appeal for lack of jurisdiction.
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June 03, 2026
INDIANAPOLIS — A firefighters’ union properly raised after final judgment a trial court’s failure to provide class notice in a lawsuit alleging insufficient time off as “[t]he Firefighters could not have anticipated that the trial court would proceed to final judgment prior to following the procedure for class actions, taking evidence or swearing in witnesses,” an Indiana Court of Appeals panel ruled in an unpublished opinion.
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June 02, 2026
CHICAGO — Resolving consolidated appeals in a withdrawal liability case where “tens of millions of dollars” are at stake by upholding a mixed ruling, the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court’s judgment “across the board,” concluding that a multiemployer pension plan had authority to expel a local bargaining unit but the plan’s counterclaim for declaratory judgment as to when the contribution obligation for that unit ended is not yet ripe because a mandatory exhaustion requirement applies and the issue must be arbitrated.
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June 02, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s rulings dismissing a physician’s claims and granting summary judgment to a medical clinic in her suit alleging violations of state and federal laws related to her termination, finding in part that the COVID regulation for infectious disease prevention she claims the clinic violated does not include the type of public policy expression required under applicable case law.
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June 01, 2026
NEW YORK — The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on May 29 held that the entire charge of discrimination that was filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against a construction company insured “is squarely in the heartland” of a management liability insurance policy’s sexual and physical abuse exclusion, affirming a federal court’s dismissal of the coverage dispute arising from sexual harassment claims.
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June 01, 2026
SEATTLE — Concluding that a Washington federal judge did not err in dismissing for failure to state a claim the second amended complaint of several former city employees who were terminated after they refused to become vaccinated against COVID-19, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed the dismissal in a per curiam opinion.
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May 28, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court on May 28 ruled that workers who transport goods on an intrastate leg of an interstate journey and do not cross state lines or interact with vehicles that do can qualify for the Federal Arbitration Act’s exemption from compelled arbitration for workers who are “engaged in foreign or interstate commerce.”
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May 28, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — Affirming dismissal of a lawsuit in which former employees of a shuttered manufacturing facility sought to enforce a judgment against entities that were not among the parties who in earlier litigation were found liable for violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals cited Peacock v. Thomas in ruling that the workers failed to establish federal question jurisdiction and federal common-law ancillary jurisdiction.
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May 27, 2026
SEATTLE — The owner and operator of several Potbelly Sandwich Shop restaurants filed a notice indicating that it is appealing a Washington federal court’s grant of an employment practices liability insurer’s motion to dismiss its breach of contract lawsuit seeking coverage for an underlying putative class alleging that it violated the Washington Equal Pay and Opportunities Act.