July 10, 2020
While the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling that federal civil rights law protects LGBTQ employees resolved a closely watched question that had been brewing for years, the justices also devoted time to workplace law issues like religious employers' rights and causation standards in civil rights cases. Here, Law360 looks at five of the high court's most notable employment decisions this term.
June 11, 2020
A black-owned production studio whose discrimination suit against Comcast went to the U.S. Supreme Court reached a settlement with the cable company that includes a new content and distribution arrangement to resolve claims it would have carried its channels "but for" racial bias.
March 23, 2020
Allegations of racial bias in contracting must clear a high bar, the U.S. Supreme Court said Monday in a ruling that sent a black-owned production studio's $20 billion discrimination case against Comcast back to the Ninth Circuit.
November 13, 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed to lean toward reversing a Ninth Circuit decision allowing a studio's $20 billion racial bias suit to proceed against Comcast Corp. because, in the words of some justices, the appeals court adopted a seemingly "wrong" standard for proving illegal discrimination in contracting.
November 08, 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider the Trump administration's decision to wind down the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for childhood immigrants and whether the parents of a slain Mexican teenager can sue the border agent who killed him, in what's expected to be a dramatic week of oral arguments to close out the November session.
October 25, 2019
Comcast has made one final push to convince the U.S. Supreme Court that the $20 billion racial bias suit it is facing from a black-owned production company should be required to meet the "but for" causation standard to pass muster, not the lesser standard that the Ninth Circuit relied on.
October 04, 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court kicks off its new term Monday, and while a closely watched LGBT rights case is expected to be the main event for workplace law observers, the high court has plenty of other notable employment cases on the docket. Here, experts look at a handful of pending employment cases attorneys ought to be keeping tabs on.
October 01, 2019
The head of the NAACP sharply criticized Comcast on Tuesday afternoon, charging that the company is touting its commitment to diversity while simultaneously working to narrow a bedrock civil rights law in a closely watched racial bias case against the media giant before the U.S. Supreme Court.
September 30, 2019
A Reconstruction-era law that makes it illegal to discriminate based on race when making or enforcing contracts does not require those suing under it to meet the "but for" causation standard, 10 members of the Congressional Black Caucus told the Supreme Court Monday.
August 16, 2019
The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday urged the high court to overturn a Ninth Circuit decision that revived a $20 billion racial bias suit against Comcast, insisting that the appellate court should be holding the accuser to a higher standard for proving discrimination than it did.