December 17, 2024
In 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court lowered the bar for workers looking to pursue bias suits over job transfers while appeals courts tackled charged topics like diversity training seminars and the use of racial slurs at work. Here, Law360 looks at four decisions from the past year that will leave a lasting imprint on antidiscrimination law.
December 16, 2024
One judge said a litigant's position would cause "an effing nightmare," and another decried the legal community's silence amid "illegitimate aspersions." Public officials literally trashed one court's opinion, and fateful rulings dealt with controversial politicians, social media and decades of environmental policy. Those were just a few appellate highlights in 2024, a year teeming with memorable moments both substantive and sensational.
March 04, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit on Monday refused to let Florida start enforcing a law that prevents employers from requiring workers to attend diversity trainings that promote various sex- and race-based concepts, rejecting the Sunshine State's assertion that it was regulating conduct, not speech.
August 24, 2023
An attorney representing Florida told the Eleventh Circuit Thursday that a state law regulating diversity instruction in schools and work doesn't ban speech, but employer conduct, because it protects employees from termination if they refuse to attend training that references any of the law's prohibited concepts.
January 12, 2023
A group of businesses urged the Eleventh Circuit to keep in place a lower court order blocking part of Florida's so-called Stop WOKE Act that prevents employers from endorsing sex- and race-based ideas in worker trainings, arguing that the law is unconstitutional.
November 14, 2022
Florida called on the Eleventh Circuit on Monday to reinstate part of a controversial law that prevents employers from promoting various sex- and race-based concepts as part of worker training, arguing that the law does not violate the First Amendment.