Jones Day and Foley & Lardner LLP are among the powerhouse law firms attempting to fend off accusations that they subjected lawyers to discrimination. Here, Law360 looks at four ongoing employment suits against law firms that are worth watching in the back half of 2024.
Lawsuits filed by job seekers following the enactment of Washington state's unique pay transparency law are lurching forward, and experts say the suits' journeys to the plaintiff-friendly venue of state court and a $3.8 million class action settlement highlight some key takeaways from this type of litigation.
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Vice Chair Jocelyn Samuels said Wednesday that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in Muldrow v. St. Louis should not hinder companies' diversity and inclusion efforts, despite fears the justices' decision opens these initiatives up to more legal attacks.
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Jones Day and Foley & Lardner LLP are among the powerhouse law firms attempting to fend off accusations that they subjected lawyers to discrimination. Here, Law360 looks at four ongoing employment suits against law firms that are worth watching in the back half of 2024.
Lawsuits filed by job seekers following the enactment of Washington state's unique pay transparency law are lurching forward, and experts say the suits' journeys to the plaintiff-friendly venue of state court and a $3.8 million class action settlement highlight some key takeaways from this type of litigation.
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Vice Chair Jocelyn Samuels said Wednesday that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in Muldrow v. St. Louis should not hinder companies' diversity and inclusion efforts, despite fears the justices' decision opens these initiatives up to more legal attacks.
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July 15, 2024
A Georgia school district should be allowed to escape a former counselor's lawsuit alleging she was terminated for requesting time off to care for her sick husband, a federal judge said Monday, finding she couldn't overcome the district's explanation that she'd failed to correct performance issues despite multiple opportunities.
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July 15, 2024
An administrative law judge's decision reinstating a Jersey City police officer to her job after she was fired for off-duty marijuana use provides an argument for dismissing the city's lawsuit against the state in which it argues that federal law is at odds with New Jersey law, police officers say in a letter filed Monday in federal court.
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July 15, 2024
A closely watched discrimination lawsuit over software provider Workday's artificial intelligence-powered hiring tools is headed into discovery after a California federal court ruled the company may be subject to federal antidiscrimination laws if its products make decisions on candidates. Here are four things to know about the latest development in the cutting-edge case.
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July 15, 2024
New York Attorney General Letitia James and a local roller derby league each sued to strike down a newly passed law banning transgender women and girls from participating in recreational sports at facilities run by Nassau County on Monday, reviving a bitter legal fight.
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July 15, 2024
The Eighth Circuit reinstated a St. Louis police officer's suit alleging he was reassigned to a different unit for being straight, reversing its prior decision affirming the dismissal of his suit following a U.S. Supreme Court order loosening requirements the circuit placed on Title VII discrimination claims.
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July 15, 2024
Arkansas-based Hank's Furniture Inc. will pay $110,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming it unlawfully fired a manager who refused the COVID-19 vaccine because of her Christian beliefs, the agency and the retailer told a Florida federal court Monday.
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July 15, 2024
Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced Monday that it has brought on a five-member team of labor and employment lawyers who previously practiced with Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP.
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July 15, 2024
Leap Legal Software Inc. was hit with a discrimination lawsuit in New Jersey state court Friday from a former employee alleging she was fired due to her undiagnosed and untreated Lyme disease.
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July 15, 2024
A turbomachinery company asked to intervene on a transgender worker's New Hampshire federal court claim that its health plan administrators violated Affordable Care Act anti-bias provisions by enforcing a gender dysphoria treatment ban in the company's health plan, arguing that the issue is intertwined with its mission.
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July 15, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge gave an earful to an attorney representing a Drexel University administrator suing the school for disability discrimination after the case was dismissed without prejudice over the attorney's missed deadlines.
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July 15, 2024
Amazon Web Services shouldn't have to face a suit from a former recruiter who claims she was fired for complaining that a supervisor made disparaging comments about older people and Hispanic workers, a Texas federal judge said, finding poor performance cost her the job, not retribution.
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July 15, 2024
A veteran employment litigator has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in New York after nearly 16 years at Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP.
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July 15, 2024
EEOC Commissioner Keith Sonderling announced Monday he will leave the agency in August when his term ends, wrapping up a seven-year tenure with the federal government to return to the private sector.
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July 15, 2024
A job candidate's discrimination case over Workday's artificial intelligence-powered hiring tools got the go-ahead to move into the fact-finding stage, as a California federal judge said it's plausible that employment bias laws could stretch to reach the software vendor.
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July 12, 2024
Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2024, our list of 158 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
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July 12, 2024
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo defeated retaliation claims in a state trooper's lawsuit alleging she was sexually harassed while serving in Cuomo's security detail, after a federal judge said Friday that no employment relationship existed because Cuomo resigned months before his purported threat to seek prosecution of his alleged victims.
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July 12, 2024
A nonprofit that's challenging the U.S. military's in vitro fertilization coverage policy for service members told a New York federal judge that federal agencies cannot claim they're entitled to Chevron deference in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision overturning the decades-old precedent.
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July 12, 2024
Two Texas federal judges have blocked the U.S. Department of Education from enforcing protections for transgender students in Lone Star State schools while lawsuits against the rules are litigated, with one judge saying the measures provide "extra privileges to the transgender student based on subjective feelings of discomfort."
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July 12, 2024
A New York federal judge ordered Amazon to cough up documents the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requested as part of its investigation into allegations that the e-commerce giant systematically discriminates against pregnant workers, saying the information the agency seeks, despite its breadth, is relevant.
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July 12, 2024
An Ohio federal judge refused to throw out a Black truck driver's suit against the International United Auto Workers, saying he put forward enough information to support his allegation that the union did a poor job of representing him when his employer fired him for his social media posts.
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July 12, 2024
A high-profile sexual harassment case against the city of Boston and its former health director settled for $1 million earlier this month, according to a copy of the agreement released Friday.
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July 12, 2024
The Eighth Circuit declined Friday to overrule a lower court's order denying a former U.S. Army supply specialist a new trial in her retaliation suit alleging she was fired for reporting that she was sexually harassed, finding that she didn't follow court rules when filing her appeal.
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July 12, 2024
A former employee of Quantix SCS LLC is suing the company, Abbott Laboratories Inc. and two other drug testing companies, saying he was wrongly fired after testing positive for THC and the companies did not consider that it could have resulted from his use of legal CBD products.
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July 12, 2024
Traditional workplace bias training is not as effective as an evidence-based model that works to prevent discrimination through changes to practices such as hiring, performance evaluations and promotions, according to a new study.
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July 12, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a constitutional challenge by the federal government to Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors, while other appeals courts are weighing the constitutionality of states' and employers' restrictions on gender dysphoria treatment. Here are seven cases involving gender-affirming care access that attorneys will be tracking in the second half of the year.