A magistrate judge ordered a Pennsylvania law firm to turn over records of its contributions to an underlying $5 million wage suit settlement to its former co-counsel so the firms could assess how to split the spoils of victory.
A Texas state appeals court concluded that Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso held immunity to claims that it retaliated against an older worker for complaining about age discrimination in the workplace, but said the worker can still pursue her age bias claims against the institution.
A company accused of forcing foreign employees to work for substandard wages for years or else pay tens of thousands of dollars in liquidated damages urged a New York federal court Thursday not to grant a pre-trial victory on claims that its practices amounted to forced labor.
A judge from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims tossed two U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents' proposed class action alleging unpaid overtime, ruling that federal criminal investigators have no right to time and a half overtime pay while undergoing mandatory law enforcement training.
The Seventh Circuit on Tuesday upheld a pair of lower courts' decisions to declare that a Wisconsin governmental entity violated the Family and Medical Leave Act by de facto demoting a concussed teacher, and to grant her attorney fees for her bench trial victory.