March 14, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent refusal to reevaluate a long-standing legal framework applied in employment discrimination lawsuits won't tamp down growing frustration with the doctrine, experts said, and lower courts may minimize the test's role even while it remains on the books.
March 10, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a religious discrimination case from a Christian fire chief who said he was fired for his beliefs, leaving in place a Ninth Circuit decision that sided with the city that employed him as well as a long-standing legal framework that the justices had been asked to reconsider.
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.