February 05, 2025
A Fifth Circuit panel peppered lawyers with questions Wednesday about corrective lenses and administrative procedures, delving into the process around what a colorblind BNSF Railway Co. conductor alleges was an unlawful discriminatory vision test.
February 04, 2025
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Wednesday will chime in as amicus on behalf of a colorblind train conductor at Fifth Circuit oral arguments, saying the lower court incorrectly gave railway safety regulations more weight than federal disability law.
February 03, 2025
The full Eleventh Circuit will tackle a high-profile legal fight over a Georgia county health plan's coverage exclusion for gender dysphoria treatment, while the EEOC is scheduled to appear at the Fifth and D.C. circuits to back up arguments made in amicus briefs. Here are six argument sessions discrimination attorneys should keep tabs on this month.
August 20, 2024
BNSF Railway Co. urged the Fifth Circuit to reject a colorblind conductor's bid to revive his disability bias suit claiming he was illegally fired for failing a vision test, arguing that the former employee's impairment disqualified him for the job.
May 20, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told the Fifth Circuit it should revive a colorblind conductor's disability bias suit claiming BNSF Railway Co. used a flawed vision test to fire him, arguing that the trial court misinterpreted railway safety regulations when it tossed the case.