A Spanish woman’s fight for equal pay ended with her losing her job. Europe’s rights court ruled the firing was retaliation and faulted Spain for leaving workers exposed when they challenge discrimination.

The Seventh Circuit upheld an Illinois federal court’s dismissal of a Palestinian American apartment tenant, who sued the owner of her building for evicting her because she refused to remove a Palestinian flag displayed in her window. The renter sued for national origin discrimination under the Fair Housing Act, but did not indicate how Palestinians are disparately affected by the building’s neutrality policy compared to non-Palestinians, e.g. by showing a non-Palestinian who was allowed to hang a Palestinian flag from their window.

The Ninth Circuit upheld a California federal court’s decision to dismiss, with prejudice, a second-amended antitrust complaint accusing Google of using monopoly power to dominate the GPS navigation market. The tech giant has 90% market share and a competitive data advantage, but a “mere showing of substantial or even dominant market share alone cannot establish market power sufficient to carry out a predatory

A federal court in California granted Home Depot’s motion to disqualify an attorney and law firm as counsel of record for the customer who is suing the retail giant over an injury; the skid-steer loader he rented pitched forward and his seatbelt failed, so he hit his head against the vehicle. The attorney used to represent Home Depot in personal injury lawsuits, and she was privy to confidential information in a case similar to the current one.

An appeals court in Louisiana affirmed the trial court’s decision to reopen a garnishment proceeding but urges it to reconsider a judgment ordering a home health care business to pay $10,990. If the company had garnished its former employee’s wages over 14 weeks when it should have, it would have only taken $665. This result “would be absurd and punitive,” as the statute is meant to allow creditors to seize debtors’ property held by an employer, not the employer’s property.

A federal court in Minnesota denied social media platform X’s motion for a judgment against Minnesota over its law that prohibits, under certain circumstances, the dissemination of “deepfakes” aimed at injuring a political candidate. X has not demonstrated it has Article III standing to bring a pre-enforcement challenge to the statute.

Full-time workers in the European Union saw their salaries rise an average of 5.2% in 2024, Eurostat reported this week.

A contractor for Hawaii's "Skyline" light rail project says the city agency overseeing the construction mismanaged the project, costing the contractor at least $320 million.

Louisiana environmentalists say a planned lake project in the Atchafalaya Basin, the largest river swamp in the U.S., would result in the loss of wetlands and crucial flood storage capacity. The environmentalists claim discussions for the project happened behind closed doors despite public opposition.

Kentucky residents and businesses filed a class action to hold the UPS, General Electric and Boeing liable for injury, lost business and property damage stemming from a Nov. 4 plane crash of a UPS cargo plane. At least 12 people were killed in the crash.