CFPB's General Counsel Who Pushed Muscular Agency Set to Depart
Seth Frotman, the top lawyer at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is set to depart after leading the agency through a ...
Bondi Eases Foreign Agent Enforcement as Countries Tap Lobbyists
A years-long uptick in criminal enforcement of foreign lobbying cases that put K Street on alert is likely on the wane under ...
Trump Will Seek to End Carried Interest, Expand SALT in Tax Bill
President Donald Trump outlined his tax priorities in a meeting with Republican lawmakers, including ending the carried interest tax break used by private equity fund managers and expanding the state ...
Case: Discrimination/Hostile Work Environment (N.D. Ill.)
An Illinois federal court granted summary judgment to the U.S. Postal Service on the claims of a postal carrier of Middle Eastern descent that he was subjected to a hostile work environment due to his ...
Case: Discrimination/Race Discrimination (E.D. Pa.)
A Pennsylvania federal district court partly denied Community Action Lehigh Valley’s motion for summary judgment on the Title VII of the Civil Right Act, state law, and Section 1981 claims of a Black ...
Case: Discrimination/Pregnancy Discrimination (N.D. Tex.)
A Texas federal district court found that a former human resources business partner at Santander Consumer USA established a prima facie case of pregnancy discrimination under Title VII of the Civil ...
Case: Discrimination/Race Discrimination (M.D. La.)
A federal district court denied summary judgment to Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation on a Black underwriter’s 42 U.S.C. § 1981 claim alleging her firing for misusing her work email and not ...
Case: Individual Employment Rights/First Amendment (E.D. Pa.)
A Pennsylvania federal district court partly denied Bucks County’s motion to dismiss First Amendment retaliation and wrongful discharge claims of an administrative lieutenant for Bucks County ...
Case: Wage & Hour/Arbitration (D. Mass.)
A Massachusetts federal district court granted Rollins Inc.'s motion to stay the case pending arbitration of the claims of an account executive that he wasn’t paid wages in a proper manner and ...
Case: Disability Discrimination/Retaliation (D. Conn.)
A Connecticut federal court denied Aura Healthcare, LLC’s motion to dismiss retaliation claims under the ADA and state law of a licensed residential clinician who alleged that she was terminated in ...
Kirkland, Latham Shine on TPG's $2.2 Billion Bid for Altus Power
Kirkland & Ellis and Latham & Watkins are steering buyout firm TPG’s deal to purchase Altus Power for approximately $2.2 ...
Justices Deny Trump Administration Requests to Pause EPA Cases
The US Supreme Court denied the Trump administration’s request to put several clashes with the Environmental Protection ...