A D.C. federal judge put on hold a former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission member's suit challenging her firing until the U.S. Supreme Court weighs in on President Donald Trump's authority to remove a federal trade commissioner.
A nonprofit sued the government seeking information about deals it made with law firms whose diversity, equity and inclusion policies the Trump administration called out as potentially unlawful, and local governments in Democratic-led states alleged that federal disaster relief funds are being unlawfully tied to DEI policies. Here, Law360 looks at notable DEI-related legal developments from the past week.
The Second Circuit reinstated a suit Thursday from a Black registered dietitian who said her boss berated her and fired her out of prejudice, ruling the former employee put forward enough detail to keep some of her race bias claims afloat.
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A D.C. federal judge put on hold a former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission member's suit challenging her firing until the U.S. Supreme Court weighs in on President Donald Trump's authority to remove a federal trade commissioner.
A nonprofit sued the government seeking information about deals it made with law firms whose diversity, equity and inclusion policies the Trump administration called out as potentially unlawful, and local governments in Democratic-led states alleged that federal disaster relief funds are being unlawfully tied to DEI policies. Here, Law360 looks at notable DEI-related legal developments from the past week.
The Second Circuit reinstated a suit Thursday from a Black registered dietitian who said her boss berated her and fired her out of prejudice, ruling the former employee put forward enough detail to keep some of her race bias claims afloat.
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October 27, 2025
Justin Baldoni, the "It Ends With Us" lead and director facing sexual harassment claims from co-star Blake Lively, asked a New York federal court to dismiss an insurer's lawsuit seeking to avoid coverage, noting that he and other insureds have already filed a similar coverage action in California state court.
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October 27, 2025
Management-side employment law firm Ogletree Deakins announced Monday that a Houston-based shareholder has returned to the firm after serving for more than a year as assistant general counsel to David Weekley Homes.
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October 24, 2025
The D.C. Circuit may revive the discrimination claims of an assistant U.S. attorney in Washington who says she was given more work than her white male colleagues, not because the panel took much stock in her claims, but because the lower court improperly quashed them.
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October 24, 2025
A former assistant manager at a Howard Johnson in Queens, New York, was awarded $3.65 million in damages after a federal jury found the hotel violated state and city anti-harassment laws by failing to address her complaints about residents' violent behavior and sexual comments.
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October 24, 2025
The Third Circuit on Friday revived an alcohol and substance abuse recovery nonprofit's disability bias suit against a New Jersey town, reasoning that the district court improperly denied the plaintiff the opportunity to refine its allegations that the municipality denied it a permit based on the nature of its operation.
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October 24, 2025
The Ninth Circuit declined Friday to revive a former Amazon executive's suit claiming she was fired for complaining that a male colleague received better pay, ruling her complaint lacked evidence that prejudice infected the company's compensation and promotion decisions.
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October 24, 2025
A former Denver police officer has filed a federal lawsuit against the city, alleging the Denver Police Department subjected him and other Black officers to systemic racial discrimination.
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October 24, 2025
A Pennsylvania county on Friday escaped a lawsuit from a former assistant district attorney who said he was fired for complaining that the district attorney was treating women and employees with disabilities more harshly than men, with a federal judge ruling the county wasn't his employer.
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October 24, 2025
The Sixth Circuit backed the dismissal of a cook's suit alleging that a casino owned by a Native American community forced her to resign because she sought time to breastfeed her newborn, upholding the lower court's opinion that the casino's tribal ownership shields the business.
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October 24, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for arguments regarding American Airlines' bid to dismiss a disability discrimination suit. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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October 24, 2025
A former legal assistant for Burke Warren MacKay & Serritella PC is ending his lawsuit claiming a staffing agency refused to reassign him after he was fired for asking to work from home because of his cancer diagnosis, according to a filing in Illinois federal court.
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October 23, 2025
An attorney who ignored a show cause order earlier this summer after his co-counsel included a fake case citation in a filing for their then-client, a former in-house attorney for Workday Inc., told a San Francisco federal judge Thursday that his failure to respond was a "mistake," in response to a renewed show cause order.
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October 23, 2025
A free speech institute at Columbia University told a New York federal court Thursday that President Donald Trump's administration effectively denied its requests for information related to the government's demands that law firms supply details about their diversity, equity and inclusion practices.
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October 23, 2025
Washington University on Thursday defeated an Orthodox Jewish former employee's lawsuit claiming she was fired for complaining that her supervisor was interfering with her religious accommodations, with a Missouri federal judge saying she couldn't connect her human resources complaint to her termination.
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October 23, 2025
The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a former Florida police investigator's employment discrimination lawsuit, finding that he was provided some reasonable accommodations for his disability.
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October 23, 2025
A former paralegal is suing New Jersey-based personal injury firm Corradino & Papa LLC in federal court alleging that a name partner groped her at a holiday party last year and that the firm didn't investigate her attempts to report the incident.
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October 23, 2025
Democracy Forward on Thursday announced the addition of four attorneys, including a former U.S. Department of Justice appellate leader and a longtime assistant U.S. attorney in Virginia.
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October 23, 2025
Grocery giant Whole Foods Market has struck a deal with the California Civil Rights Department to resolve a worker's allegations that she was illegally fired after seeking pregnancy-related accommodations, the agency announced Wednesday.
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October 23, 2025
A Minnesota Department of Human Services employee struggled at an Eighth Circuit hearing Thursday to persuade an appellate panel to reinstate a religious and disability discrimination suit that challenged pandemic-era safety protocols.
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October 23, 2025
The Fifth Circuit breathed new life into a proposed class action claiming the U.S. Department of Defense unlawfully slow-walked civilian employees' requests for religious exemptions from its COVID-19 vaccination directive, saying the mandate getting rescinded didn't nullify the lawsuit.
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October 23, 2025
Premier Healthcare has reached a deal with a former director to close his age discrimination suit claiming the company replaced him with a younger worker and failed to step in when a colleague wrote him off as a "boomer."
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October 22, 2025
Blake Lively told a New York federal judge Wednesday her "It Ends With Us" co-star Justin Baldoni, his production company and other defendants in her defamation case should be sanctioned for using Signal's auto-delete function in an attempt to erase evidence of their alleged retaliatory smear campaign against the actress.
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October 22, 2025
A Metro Atlanta sheriff and his office asked a federal judge on Wednesday to toss a former deputy sheriff's lawsuit alleging he was fired due to his age and support for the sheriff's 2024 election opponent, arguing that the sheriff is immune to the suit, and the deputy hasn't shown facts proving discrimination or retaliation.
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October 22, 2025
A Mississippi federal judge on Wednesday struck down a Biden-era U.S. Department of Health and Human Services rule that protected gender-affirming care under the Affordable Care Act, ruling that federal officials exceeded their authority by broadening the definition of sex discrimination to cover gender identity.
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October 22, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice paused five civil rights investigations into the University of Virginia on Wednesday after the school agreed to follow discrimination guidance the DOJ issued in July for federal funding recipients that looked to rein in diversity, equity and inclusion programs and discourage transgender athletes.