/employment-authority/other?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Employment Authority Other Copyright 2025 ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ. en-US Fri, 12 Sep 2025 18:35:31 +0000 /employment-authority/other/articles/2387540?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/other/articles/2387540 The North Carolina auditor's office recommended Friday that the city of Charlotte reconsider its funding sources for settlements and be more transparent about those arrangements following an investigation into the city's secretive $305,000 deal with its outgoing police chief. Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:29:02 +0000 /employment-authority/other/articles/2385567?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/other/articles/2385567 As lawyers increasingly use autonomous artificial intelligence agents, disciplinary authorities must decide whether attorney responsibility for an AI-caused legal ethics violation is personal or supervisory, and firms must enact strong policies regarding agentic AI use and supervision, says Grace Wynn at HWG. Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:23:31 +0000 /employment-authority/other/articles/2386968?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/other/articles/2386968 A former salesman for auto warranty underwriter Assurant called on a federal judge Thursday to release him from the company's suit alleging he hatched a conspiracy to poach clients and steal records, arguing his old employer had blown up a "garden-variety business dispute" into a bogus racketeering claim. Thu, 11 Sep 2025 22:15:15 +0000 /employment-authority/other/articles/2387089?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/other/articles/2387089 A California federal judge has refused to rethink his earlier order requiring Bank of America NA's CEO and former chief operating officer to sit for depositions in multidistrict litigation over alleged security failures at the bank during the COVID-19 pandemic, ruling the bank hasn't shown he erred. Thu, 11 Sep 2025 21:18:33 +0000 /employment-authority/other/articles/2386963?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/other/articles/2386963 Tennessee-based Provident Life & Accident Insurance Co. has been sued in North Carolina federal court by a former Bank of America vice president accusing it of unlawfully denying him disability benefits after he allegedly received a traumatic brain injury at work. Thu, 11 Sep 2025 19:36:25 +0000 /employment-authority/other/articles/2387034?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/other/articles/2387034 The Seventh Circuit refused on Thursday to unwind a whistleblower's $183 million trial win against Eli Lilly in a false claims case targeting more than a decade of drug rebate miscalculations, saying a jury reasonably found that the company knowingly "hid the truth" about how much it charged for Medicaid-covered drugs. Thu, 11 Sep 2025 19:28:43 +0000 /employment-authority/other/articles/2387005?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/other/articles/2387005 An Illinois federal judge ruled Wednesday that Homeland Insurance Co. of New York doesn't have to cover the costs McDonald's incurred defending a former employee's violent workplace claims, saying the psychological harm that worker suffered doesn't amount to a physical, bodily injury that would have triggered coverage under the policy. Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:36:35 +0000 /employment-authority/other/articles/2386956?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/other/articles/2386956 Florida and 22 other states have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to grant the Trump administration's request to block a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission from serving on the commission while she challenges her firing. Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:04:22 +0000 /employment-authority/other/articles/2384976?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/other/articles/2384976 Sigray Inc. is on the hook for $785,000 in damages after a finding in California federal court this week that it infringed X-ray imaging patents owned by Carl Zeiss X-Ray Microscopy Inc., but the jury also found that Sigray's infringement was not willful and refused to award any lost profits.  Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:30:25 +0000 /employment-authority/other/articles/2386619?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/other/articles/2386619 The California Public Employees' Retirement System has named its next legal chief, who will take the reins as general counsel when he passes the state bar next year and in the interim will be a special adviser for the pension fund. Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:16:12 +0000 /employment-authority/other/articles/2366012?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/other/articles/2366012 Pursuing my childhood dream of being a professional wrestler has taught me important legal career lessons about communication, adaptability, oral advocacy and professionalism, says Christopher Freiberg at Midwest Disability. Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:46:40 +0000 /employment-authority/other/articles/2386662?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/other/articles/2386662 The Federal Trade Commission has sent letters warning healthcare employers and staffing companies not to include overly broad noncompete restrictions in their employment contracts and urged them to conduct a review to ensure they comply with the law. Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:04:30 +0000 /employment-authority/other/articles/2386609?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/other/articles/2386609 President Donald Trump on Wednesday told a Washington, D.C., federal judge that the government will appeal the judge's decision granting a temporary win to Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook in her challenge to the president's attempt to remove her from her position. Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:53:50 +0000 /employment-authority/other/articles/2386670?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/other/articles/2386670 Three former senior FBI officials sued the Trump administration in D.C. federal court on Wednesday, accusing FBI Director Kash Patel of politicizing the agency and firing them as part of a "campaign of retribution" in a bid to keep his own job. Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:33:16 +0000 /employment-authority/other/articles/2386460?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/other/articles/2386460 A University of Wisconsin football player on Wednesday pushed back against the NCAA's attempt to thwart his second bid for an injunction that would allow him to play another year, arguing the organization failed to address the harm he would suffer if he remains sidelined. Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:28:52 +0000 /employment-authority/other/articles/2386604?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/other/articles/2386604 A former software executive slated to start his prison sentence for failing to pay employment taxes was allowed by a North Carolina federal judge Wednesday to push the date back a second time to have medical operations, including one the government described as elective. Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:27:05 +0000 /employment-authority/other/articles/2380743?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/other/articles/2380743 Though law school may not have specifically taught us how to use generative artificial intelligence to help with our daily legal tasks, it did provide us the mental building blocks necessary for adapting to this new technology — and the judgment to discern what shouldn’t be automated, says Pamela Dorian at Cozen O'Connor. Wed, 10 Sep 2025 13:18:03 +0000 /employment-authority/other/articles/2386474?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/other/articles/2386474 The fired head of the U.S. Copyright Office has regained her position for the time being after a split D.C. Circuit faulted a lower court's analysis of whether she would be harmed if she didn't get her job back while fighting the Trump administration's dismissal of her. Wed, 10 Sep 2025 08:28:40 +0000 /employment-authority/other/articles/2386343?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/other/articles/2386343 The longtime president and CEO of New England supermarket chain Market Basket has been ousted following an unsuccessful mediation, the company announced Wednesday. Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:54:12 +0000 /employment-authority/other/articles/2386262?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /employment-authority/other/articles/2386262 Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook, for now, can stay on the Fed's board while she challenges President Donald Trump's attempt to strip her of her position, a D.C. federal judge ruled late Tuesday, saying Cook has "made a strong showing" that her purported removal was likely illegal.