Courthouse News Service

Maricopa County Judge Bruce Cohen wrote a mass email urging his colleagues to speak up against misogyny lobbed at women in politics, comparing himself and fellow white men to those who didn't speak up as the Nazis rose to power.

Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court greenlit the NRA's case against Maria Vullo, a former New York official who urged banks and insurers to distance themselves from the gun group.

MANHATTAN — A federal court in New York denied Nassau County's motion to file a settlement agreement it negotiated under seal. The underlying lawsuit concerns a county employee who says she faced discrimination and retaliation due to her age and breast cancer diagnosis. The county could not show how it would suffer a specific injury that could overcome the presumption that judicial documents should be public.

MANHATTAN — The ACLU did not win summary judgment against a former employee's claim that it retaliated against him and other Black employees for speaking critically of the civil rights group and its leadership. Because multiple parties are implicated in the events leading up to the firing, the ACLU cannot argue that the manager being sued likely had good reason to terminate the employee. The ACLU could also not conclusively discredit an employee's testimony about how the manager belittled that employee due to his race.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A federal judge in Missouri denied a state judges motion for summary judgment against a father who says the state judge, Eric Eighmy, unlawfully jailed his children for refusing to go with their mother after they were disallowed from testifying during their parents' custody modification hearing. Judge Eighmy is not entitled to judicial immunity or qualified immunity because a reasonable juror could conclude he jailed the kids as punishment, not to protect them.

LAS VEGAS — A federal court in Nevada denied Hilton's motion to dismiss sex trafficking claims by a woman who says she was commercially trafficked through one of its hotels when she was 16. She would often walk past the hotel front desk in sexual attire as a minor, she said, and adds that hotel employees knew she was underaged and being forced into prostitution. Her claims are plausibly alleged, and there is no evidence that the claims are untimely, so they proceed.

Wonder Bread's parent company says the Connecticut delivery drivers should not be classified as "transportation workers" who would fall under exemption from mandatory arbitration of their labor claims.

The $60 million plan will target lower income areas where there are fewer trees than in wealthy neighborhoods.

The board's ruling responds to a series of labor complaints against Amazon for engaging in union-busting tactics.

In a 2-1 ruling, the appellate panel found that a federal court erred in issuing an injunction prohibiting the conservative state from implementing most of the law.