December 18, 2024
A California city told the U.S. Supreme Court there's no need to review the dismissal of a fire chief's suit claiming his Christian beliefs got him fired, arguing his criticism of the legal framework used to analyze his claims is baseless, and he's simply unhappy he lost.
November 15, 2024
Three religious groups urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a fire chief's suit claiming he was fired from a California city because of his Christian beliefs, arguing the Ninth Circuit opened a pathway for employers to discriminate based on religion when it backed the case's dismissal.
October 30, 2024
An ousted Christian fire chief appealing his loss in a religious bias suit has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to ditch its longstanding McDonnell Douglas test, and a recent Maryland Supreme Court decision that narrowed a bias law exemption for religious employers is being challenged as unconstitutional. Here, Law360 looks at four employment litigation developments that flew under the radar this month.