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An Ohio federal court granted class certification in two men's case accusing a municipal court judge of holding people arrested without warrants in a county jail for multiple days without legal counsel or bond because of a "deliberate indifference" to their constitutional rights.  

Missouri and 20 other Republican-led states urged the Fourth Circuit to undo a pair of district court decisions requiring state health plans in North Carolina and West Virginia to cover gender-affirming care, arguing states should be allowed to make decisions about the relatively new area of medicine.

An Ohio-based senior living community operator got hit with a proposed class action accusing it of deducting meal times from its health care workers' compensable working hours even though in practice they allegedly cannot stop working and take their full break due to understaffing.

Buffalo, New York-based Merchants Mutual Insurance Co., its policyholder Harvey Services LLC and a series of energy firms including Murray Energy Corp. all agreed to drop their coverage dispute over a gas explosion at a woman's modular home, according to a new filing in Pennsylvania federal court.

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled a woman's bid for workers' compensation on behalf of her late fiance was improperly denied because they never got to marry, writing in its opinion that the Ohio Industrial Commission wrongly said she was not a "member of the family."

A former worker for an armored car manufacturer urged an Ohio federal judge not to throw out his failure to warn case for suing the wrong company, arguing the firm he sued is related to the one listed on his pay stubs and discovery would prove that.

Toledo, Ohio-based Mexican restaurant chain Agave & Rye LLC failed to pay its workers the required minimum wage, according to a new proposed class action filed by one of its bartenders claiming it is "taking advantage" of the tip credit system despite how much nontipped work they do.

An Ohio state appeals court affirmed a workers' compensation denial after determining a woman's broken wrist, incurred during a near-fistfight with a co-worker, was "entirely unrelated" to her employment — the fight just happened to occur at work.

An Ohio state judge has granted the state attorney general's bid to lock down what remains of the money a "phony charity" and its founder allegedly took while claiming the money would go to those affected by the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine.

A Pennsylvania federal judge has ordered a Popeyes franchise owner and its district manager not to retaliate against workers who cooperate with the U.S. Department of Labor's probe into its alleged wage-and-hour violations following the agency's April claims that they lied to and threatened investigators.