February 25, 2025
The Fifth Circuit grappled Tuesday with whether the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was rightly blocked from enforcing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act against the state of Texas, with several judges struggling to pinpoint whether the U.S. Constitution requires lawmakers' physical presence to have a quorum.
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 16, 2024
The federal government's Fifth Circuit challenge to a court order blocking it from enforcing a law to protect pregnant workers in Texas got support on Friday from four Democratic lawmakers who argued the lower court ruling, if upheld, would undercut Congress' authority to set its own rules of operation.