According to the Justice Department, this is the “largest class of workers to publicly recover under an EEOC settlement on account of alleged Title VII violations arising from or relating to a DEI program or practices.” Lockheed Martin Corp. has agreed to pay $29.5 million to resolve allegations that it discriminated against employees and job applicants based on race and sex through compensation, hiring, promotion, and career-development practices, federal authorities announced. The settlement…

Counsel knowingly misrepresented when she learned of a private annuity agreement central to an SEC asset freeze. The Second Circuit affirmed sanctions imposed on an attorney who knowingly submitted a false declaration during an SEC asset-freeze proceeding. The panel held that the district court adequately supported its finding that the attorney acted knowingly and in bad faith when she misrepresented when she learned of a private annuity agreement central to the litigation. The opinion is by…

Small-business cybersecurity bills are scheduled for consideration when the House returns from recess next week with two bills teed up for floor votes under suspension of House rules, according to the Congressional Budget Office, which today published a list of bills provided by House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R., La.) that are likely to be considered beginning next Monday. The Cybersecurity for Small Businesses Act (H.R. 10238 , 119th Cong. (2026)), which cleared the House Small Business…

The provider made her choice after she “cycled through” no less than 13 attorneys and having been given warnings regarding waiver of the right to assistance of counsel. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has affirmed the decision of the district court both as to a provider’s conviction for health care fraud and her sentencing level calculation. After repeatedly requesting to represent herself, the district court made clear to her that she could not come back later to the appeals…

The OCC released its first framework for the agency’s bank examination workforce on banks’ use of Super Intelligence (SI), and stated that banks need not define a separate SI risk appetite. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has issued an examiner framework for banks’ use of Super Intelligence (SI), commonly referred to as Artificial Intelligence, in normal-course business activities. The framework is intended to provide OCC bank examiners with a supervisory framework to…

The publishers for the New York Daily News , Chicago Tribune , and Orlando Sentinel bring claims for direct copyright infringement, vicarious copyright infringement, and related claims. Newspaper publishers for the New York Daily News , Chicago Tribune , and Orlando Sentinel have filed a copyright infringement case in the federal district court in New York City against Brave Software, Inc. alleging that the technology company has unlawfully acquired and distributed material for building…

Court rejects Amazon's contention that the class action method of litigation would be unmanageable due to "the unprecedented size of the proposed class." The federal district court in Seattle, Washington has granted class certification in litigation alleging improper anticompetitive effects by the Amazon Marketplace platform's "most-favored nation restraints" allegedly imposed upon third-party merchants using the platform, resulting in customers paying supracompetitive prices. Class…

A Canadian forum was more appropriate as there was no operative forum-selection clause and the relevant evidence, witnesses, and events were concentrated in Québec. In an action brought by a cooktop manufacturer seeking a determination of nonliability after a recreational vehicle containing a cooktop exploded, a federal district court in Indiana dismissed the manufacturer’s declaratory judgment action against the trailer maker. The parties’ contracts did not incorporate the manufacturer’s…

Supreme Court Justices explored whether existing federal rules governing amendments to pleadings provide the answer to a growing circuit split over late-raised affirmative defenses. The U.S. Supreme Court wrestled Monday with whether employers and other civil defendants may wait until summary judgment to raise affirmative defenses that were not included in their original pleadings. The case, Younge v. Fulton Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office, Georgia , arises from a pregnancy…