January 26, 2024
The California Civil Rights Department has dropped its appeal of an $18 million sex harassment settlement reached between the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Activision Blizzard, ending a two-year turf war between the state and federal bias watchdogs.
June 13, 2023
Two Ninth Circuit judges considering the state of California's bids to intervene in the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's $18 million sexual harassment and retaliation settlement with Activision Blizzard expressed their frustrations with the appeal Tuesday, saying they're "disappointed" the agencies couldn't work together.
June 09, 2023
In the next week, attorneys should watch for oral arguments at the Ninth Circuit regarding whether a California agency and a worker should be allowed to intervene in an EEOC sexual harassment and discrimination case against video game company Activision Blizzard. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in the Golden State.
May 31, 2023
The Ninth Circuit will consider whether California can muscle in on an EEOC sex discrimination suit against Activision Blizzard, while the Second Circuit weighs an MLB umpire's race bias suit and the Seventh Circuit mulls the scope of a religious exemption to anti-discrimination law. Here, Law360 previews three appellate argument sessions discrimination lawyers should watch in June.
March 22, 2023
California's civil rights watchdog is interfering with an $18 million deal Activision Blizzard struck with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to end the agency's probe into workplace sexism allegations, the company told a federal judge.
November 01, 2022
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has urged the Ninth Circuit to reject California's request to intervene in a sexual harassment case against Activision Blizzard that ended with an $18 million settlement, arguing that the state presented only speculative concerns about the deal.
August 22, 2022
The state of California has asked the Ninth Circuit for the second time to allow it to intervene in a high-profile case in which the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission struck an $18 million sexual harassment and retaliation settlement with Activision Blizzard.
May 19, 2022
California's civil rights agency called on the Ninth Circuit to let it challenge the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's $18 million sexual harassment and retaliation settlement with Activision Blizzard, arguing that the district court cleared the pact "with almost no analysis."
May 18, 2022
A contentious battle between the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and California's civil rights watchdog over their parallel bias investigations into Activision Blizzard marks a breakdown in the two agencies' typically harmonious relationship.
March 25, 2022
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has urged the Ninth Circuit to deny the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing's request to pause an $18 million settlement with Activision Blizzard resolving workplace harassment claims, arguing the state is mischaracterizing the deal and delay would harm aggrieved employees.