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Perdue Foods LLC is free of all wage-related claims in a chicken farmer’s lawsuit alleging the company misclassified him as an independent contractor and deprived him of pay. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-re…

A bankruptcy trustee’s claims that the US Department of Education illegally denied his request to forgive his student loan debt will continue because the agency’s denial was “arbitrary and capricious,” a federal judge said. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/edu…

Brookfield Asset Management LLC escaped a proposed class action challenging its decision to tap target-date funds from American Century Investments as the default investment in its employees’ 401(k) plan. news.bloomberglaw.com/employee-benef…

Sotera Health Co. prevailed in court against a former company vice president who sued for $13.2 million after quitting in response to a demotion. news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/sotera-hea…

Victory Global LLC, which does business as Brough Brothers, failed to revive its lawsuit challenging Fresh Bourbon LLC’s claims that it was the first Black-owned bourbon distillery in Kentucky. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/six…

Texas’ bid to purge noncitizens from its voter rolls relies on bad data from the federal government that will wrongly lead to the removal of eligible voters, the League of United Latin American Citizens says in a new lawsuit. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/tex…

Abbott Laboratories Inc. won’t have to defend against state-law products liability claims involving an allegedly defective heart valve because they’re preempted by federal law, a court said. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…

Former LuxUrban Hotels Inc. executives agreed to pay $3 million to resolve investor allegations the short-term rental company overhyped its growth and hotel deals. news.bloomberglaw.com/securities-law…

UP Fintech Holding Ltd., also known as Tiger Brokers, defeated investor allegations the online brokerage misrepresented its risks of governmental regulatory action for noncompliance with anti-money laundering and licensing requirements. news.bloomberglaw.com/securities-law…

A Glens Falls Hospital employee is moving forward with part of her case challenging the hospital’s practice of charging tobacco-using workers an extra $520 per year for health-care coverage. news.bloomberglaw.com/employee-benef…

The Department of Veterans’ Affairs re-terminated its collective bargaining agreement despite a court order blocking the agency from taking that action. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-re…

People suing bankrupt companies over asbestos-tainted products have long tried to convince the Fourth Circuit to decide whether those Chapter 11 cases are legally valid. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law…

A proposed class action alleging Segway Inc. sold a defective scooter with handlebars that could collapse while in use will go to arbitration, a federal trial court said. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/seg…

Opinion: Depending on the language of prediction markets’ user agreements and terms of service, and the timing of users’ execution, prosecutors may find charging insider trading as wire fraud is constrained by a precedent in a 2016 case. news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-exchange…

A cybersecurity business says the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration made irrational contract awards to its former partner under scientific and environmental data collection procurements worth up to $16 billion. news.bloomberglaw.com/federal-contra…

Opinion: The Nippon–OpenAI case highlights the potential legal and ethical implications of AI systems providing professional advice without oversight. Companies should adopt a layered strategy to protect against AI-generated legal documents and lawsuits. news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-exchange…

Elon Musk took to his social media network to attack the judge in the trial he lost last week when a jury found the billionaire defrauded Twitter Inc. shareholders before acquiring the platform in 2022. news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telec…

Tobias Loss-Eaton will make his first appearance before the US Supreme Court next week, arguing that federal prosecutors chose the wrong venue to charge a former Twitter employee convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/si…

Reggae legend Bob Marley’s heirs sued cannabis giant Tilray Brands Inc. on Friday over millions in payments tied to a deal licensing his name, image, and likeness. news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/bob-marley…

Former Chicago Prosecutors Exploring Pushback to Trump’s DOJ news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/for…