September 30, 2024
The federal government has agreed to pay $22.6 million to resolve a proposed class action alleging the Federal Bureau of Investigation drove out female trainees by targeting them with unfair discipline, the former trainees behind the case said Monday.
April 18, 2022
A D.C. federal judge shot down an attempt by the Justice Department to throw out the bulk of a proposed class action by more than a dozen women alleging they were systematically driven out of the FBI agent training program and subjected to sexist double standards.
July 24, 2020
Female FBI employees suing the agency for gender bias weren't able to secure a court order shielding them from retaliation, as a D.C. federal judge said she can't bar the FBI from doing something that's only tenuously linked to the employees' allegations.
September 11, 2019
A D.C. federal judge has shot down an attempt by more than a dozen female FBI employees seeking to block the agency from retaliating against them for claiming its training program is biased against women, saying their injunction push improperly weaved in new allegations.
July 08, 2019
A Washington, D.C., federal judge has let 10 of 11 women anonymously accusing the Federal Bureau of Investigation of mistreating female trainees keep their names secret over concerns that unmasking them would jeopardize their safety and their work.
June 10, 2019
A Washington, D.C., federal judge said a group of women accusing the Federal Bureau of Investigation of allowing rampant bias in its agent training program can't press their proposed class action anonymously because their privacy doesn't outweigh the public's interest in the suit.
May 30, 2019
More than a dozen women who sought FBI agent positions accused the bureau of allowing rampant bias in its training program in a proposed class action filed in Washington, D.C., federal court, saying it let men off the hook for the same mistakes it cited to reject most of them.