The D.C. Circuit's decision to permit the president's removal of Merit Systems Protection Board member Cathy Harris despite her statutory job protections will stand after the full court declined to rehear her firing challenge Friday.
A proposed wage and hour class action that drew the legal world's attention in November after the plaintiff's counsel admitted to using a half-dozen artificial intelligence tools to prepare a botched motion has now ended, with a Northern California federal judge granting a joint dismissal following a settlement agreement.
The newly functional National Labor Relations Board has wasted little time chipping away at a backlog of cases that piled up over the nearly yearlong period that it lacked enough members to rule, issuing five decisions on Thursday adopting preliminary rulings that went unchallenged.