“At least a few courts throughout the country have concluded that a jury could find that a plaintiff was constructively discharged when they were subject to an unsafe or dangerous working environment.” A sheriff’s deputy with a hearing impairment—who had been assigned to train in the jail setting and who resigned after having been denied her requested accommodations—sufficiently established that her working conditions were so intolerable that a reasonable person in her position would have had…

Is the issue-exhaustion requirement satisfied if presenting the claim would be "clearly useless?" A respondent in a FINRA disciplinary action has asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on whether statutory issue-exhaustion requirements bar courts from hearing structural constitutional challenges to agency proceedings. The petition argues that the Sixth Circuit wrongly refused to consider his claim that the SEC's imposition of monetary sanctions violated his Seventh Amendment right to a jury…

A New Mexico state court today imposed a $25 billion penalty on Meta Platforms, Inc., after finding that the social media giant misrepresented its privacy practices in violation of the state’s Unfair Practices Act. Meta said it would appeal. “Facebook promised users that they (the users) controlled their data. This was false,” Francis Mathew, a judge for the state’s First Judicial District Court, said in his judgment . “Facebook did not disclose to the public that it had designed the open…

A recent D.C. Circuit opinion made clear that not every Medicare payment rule is a final Medicare payment determination, and the hospitals in this matter failed to challenge a Notice of Program Reimbursement final payment determination. Disproportionate share hospitals that challenged the calculation of their Medicare reimbursements under a 2023 HHS final rule filed premature administrative appeals with the HHS Provider Reimbursement Review Board (PRRB), held the federal district court in…

Application intake remains contingent on Office of Management and Budget approval, while the final rule and the GENIUS Act take effect January 18, 2027. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) finalized regulations implementing the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act for permitted payment stablecoin issuers and foreign payment stablecoin issuers under its jurisdiction, along with certain custody activities by OCC-supervised entities. The…

However, the company’s motion for injunctive relief was denied. The U.S. District Court of Arizona at Phoenix denied the defendant insurance company GEICO’s motion to dismiss a Polish start-up gifting company’s pleas for declaratory relief based on a reverse-domain-hijacking theory and a claim of tortious interference with contract under Arizona law. However, citing the gifting company’s failure to show a likelihood to succeed on the merits of its case, the court denied its motion for a…

The FTC alleges the deal would let Publicis use a dominant data connectivity provider to foreclose rivals in media agency and audience data services; a five-year order is designed to prevent that. The FTC issued an administrative complaint challenging Publicis Groupe S.A.'s proposed acquisition of LiveRamp Holdings, Inc. and simultaneously accepted for public comment, an Agreement Containing Consent Orders along with a Decision and Order and Order to Maintain Assets that would allow the…

The consumer, who had eaten the company’s breaded fish fillets, required surgery to remove a fish bone lodged in her esophagus. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of the Superior Court and remanded the case of a woman who appealed the trial court’s order granting a grocery company’s motion to reconsider and dismiss the negligence cause of action in her complaint. The woman, who ate breaded fish fillets she purchased from the grocery store, subsequently had surgery…

Excluding men from a paid, employer-sponsored conference plausibly caused harm under Muldrow , the court found, and a candidate-pool-expansion rationale did not support dismissal. A federal district court in New Hampshire denied dismissal of a Title VII suit challenging a beverage bottler's decision to send only women to a two-day professional forum, concluding that the EEOC plausibly alleged that excluded male employees suffered cognizable harm. The agency identified three alleged harms: lost…