December 19, 2017
A Texas federal court’s invalidation of the Obama administration’s controversial expansion of overtime pay for white collar workers and divergent rulings by two federal circuit courts over whether federal anti-discrimination law covers sexual orientation bias were among the highlights of 2017 for employment law observers. Here, Law360 looks back at five of the year’s seminal court cases.
March 31, 2017
Texas Roadhouse Inc. agreed to pay $12 million to resolve long-running litigation over U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims that the steakhouse wouldn't hire older adults for restaurant positions that interacted with the public, according to a consent decree submitted to a Massachusetts federal court on Friday.
March 21, 2017
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission stood behind its long-running lawsuit accusing Texas Roadhouse of age discrimination, arguing Tuesday that the restaurant chain's bid to secure judgment before a retrial has no legs and merely recycles arguments the Massachusetts federal court has already rejected.
March 09, 2017
A Massachusetts federal court on Thursday decided a Boston Globe article did not warrant approving Texas Roadhouse's request to delay a retrial over age discrimination claims levied against it by the U.S. Employment Opportunity Commission despite arguments by the chain that the piece was "grossly slanted" and had the potential to taint the jury pool.
March 08, 2017
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission shot back in Massachusetts federal court on Wednesday at Texas Roadhouse Inc.'s bid to delay an upcoming retrial in an age-discrimination suit because of a Boston Globe column the restaurant says will taint the future jury pool, calling the move nothing but smokescreen.
March 03, 2017
Texas Roadhouse on Friday urged a Massachusetts federal judge to delay an upcoming retrial in the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's lawsuit accusing the restaurant chain of age discrimination, citing a recent "grossly slanted" Boston Globe article it says likely tainted the future jury pool.
February 08, 2017
A Massachusetts federal judge on Wednesday referred the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's age bias case against restaurant chain Texas Roadhouse Inc. to mediation, following a recent mistrial.
February 03, 2017
The government’s landmark age bias case against Texas Roadhouse ended in a mistrial Friday in Massachusetts federal court after a jury said three times that it could not come to a unanimous decision.
February 01, 2017
A federal jury in Massachusetts said Wednesday that it couldn't come to a unanimous decision about whether Texas Roadhouse discriminated against older job applicants, prompting the restaurant to request a mistrial.
January 30, 2017
Texas Roadhouse Inc.'s attorneys told a Massachusetts federal jury in closing arguments Monday that the government's age bias allegations against the restaurant don't hold up to scrutiny, aiming to cast doubt on key testimony that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission presented over three weeks of trial.