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Friday, April 17, 2026

Littler, Steel Mill 'Poisoned' Wage-and-Hour Case, Judge Says - Law360

By Andrew Strickler (November 19, 2021, 3:49 PM EST) -- An Alabama steel mill and its Littler Mendelson PC defense team committed "calculated sabotage" on a wage-and-hour suit with repeated lies, broken court orders and an attempt to push blame for their own discovery stonewalling onto a third party, a federal judge has ruled. Despite a magistrate's earlier call for a lesser punishment, U. S. District Judge Jeffrey U. Beaverstock on Thursday took the extraordinary step of issuing a default liability judgement against Outokumpu Stainless USA LLC, saying it was "the only remaining sanction sufficient" to address the many defense-side abuses. The order in Alabama's Southern District carries heavy ramifications for Outokumpu,. . .

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