In a rebuke of recent USCIS immigration policies, a federal district court in Rhode Island vacated four agency policies that effectively suspended adjudication of thousands of immigration benefit requests. The June 5, 2026, decision in Dorcas International Institute...
Last month, Proskauer secured a unanimous victory at the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund. In a 9-0 decision authored by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Court resolved a circuit split concerning how multiemployer pension...
Key Highlights The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel issued an opinion concluding that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) current interpretation of disparate-impact liability under Title VII is unconstitutional because, in DOJ’s...
Key Takeaways: The Fourth Circuit held that employees that settled and released their individual claims after the District Court decertified the class and collective actions had waived their claims and, thus, lacked standing to bring an appeal. This decision was made...
On June 11, 2026, the Trump administration filed a notice of appeal challenging the U.S District Court for the District of Massachusetts’s June 8, 2026, decision vacating the $100,000 H-1B fee requirement. Judge Leo T. Sorokin granted the government’s motion to stay...
On June 4, 2026, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a revised National Enforcement Plan (NEP). The NEP sets forth the agency’s enforcement agenda and supersedes (and starkly departs from) the 2024-2028 Strategic Enforcement Plan. (That departure...
Assume you are an employer that attracts talent and uses the H-1B visa to bring those “specialty occupations” to your workforce. Assume that since September 21, 2025, the cost of hiring employees and using the H-1B visa went up $100,000 — because it did. Assume that...
On June 3, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a significant precedential decision in Secretary U. S. Department of Labor v. Comprehensive Healthcare Management Services LLC, No. 24-2842, 2026 WL 1582064 (3d Cir. June 3, 2026), narrowing the...
In this installment of our Workplace Strategies Watercooler 2026 podcast series, shareholders Tina Bengs (Chicago/Indianapolis), Joseph Cartafalsa (New York), and Michael Riccobono (Morristown) walk through a comprehensive compliance checklist covering mandatory leave...
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