-
October 31, 2024
The Fourth Circuit will hear from a nurse who was fired for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccination while the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will venture to the First, Tenth and Eleventh circuits to back up arguments made in amicus briefs. Here are four argument sessions employment discrimination attorneys should keep tabs on this month.
-
October 31, 2024
The Ninth Circuit backed Credit One Bank's win over a former employee's claims that she was fired for complaining that her pay was docked while on medical leave, finding she couldn't overcome the bank's explanation that she had used slurs when referring to a supervisor.
-
October 31, 2024
Check out the Law360 Pulse Leaderboard to see which firms made the list of leaders in all-around excellence this year.
-
October 31, 2024
Competition for top talent among elite law firms shows no signs of slowing down, even amid economic uncertainty, with financially strong firms deploying aggressive strategies to attract and retain skilled professionals to solidify their market position.
-
October 30, 2024
An Arkansas federal judge on Tuesday denied class certification to a former Tyson Foods employee accusing the company of placing her on unpaid leave after she sought a religious exemption for a COVID-19 vaccine requirement, saying she failed to show that proposed class members shared common legal or factual issues.
-
October 30, 2024
The Fifth Circuit on Wednesday backed Texas A&M University's win over a professor's lawsuit claiming its hiring practices prevent white and Asian men's applications from being properly considered, finding his failure to actually seek a job at the school doomed his case.
-
October 30, 2024
A California appeals court won't let the former CEO of Ford Models send a woman's suit brought under a state sex trafficking law to arbitration, saying her allegations don't fall within the scope of the arbitration agreement she signed.
-
October 30, 2024
A biopharmaceutical development company can't kick a fired executive's bias suit to arbitration, a California federal judge said, ruling that the harassment she said she faced on the job was gendered enough to invoke a federal law curbing out-of-court-resolutions of sex harassment claims.
-
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.
-
October 30, 2024
Grammy-nominated rap and hip-hop producer Metro Boomin was sued in California state court Tuesday for allegedly raping a woman who visited his recording studio in 2016, resulting in an unwanted pregnancy and an abortion.
-
October 30, 2024
A Third Circuit panel on Wednesday attempted to parse distinctions between sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination as a former CVS manager argued that a trial court was wrong to find that a 2022 law limiting mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment claims didn't shield her bias suit from dismissal.
-
October 30, 2024
The Eighth Circuit reopened a Black social worker's lawsuit alleging he received an unfavorable performance review because he asked for a new desk to work remotely in his wheelchair, ruling Wednesday that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision necessitated giving his case a second look.
-
October 30, 2024
Southwest Airlines urged a California federal judge to disassemble a nearly 3,000-member class of workers who say the company violated federal law by failing to pay them for short stints of military leave, saying new evidence shows there are too many individualized issues to warrant class treatment.
-
October 30, 2024
The D.C. Circuit declined to revive a fired FBI agent's suit claiming bias toward his Chinese ancestry caused the agency to yank his security clearance after he failed three polygraph tests, ruling the courts can't touch the case because the FBI's decision involved national security.
-
October 30, 2024
The state of Texas announced Wednesday it launched another lawsuit accusing a physician of violating a state law barring healthcare providers from offering gender transition services to minors.
-
October 30, 2024
A Nevada jury awarded a former Wynn Las Vegas cocktail server about $321,000 in damages from her claim that the casino resort operator interfered with her Family and Medical Leave Act rights, but didn't side with the worker on her discrimination allegation.
-
October 30, 2024
Honda's manufacturing arm systematically bars Black workers from securing senior positions in the company by shrouding its promotional processes in secrecy, according to a proposed class action filed by a Black employee in Ohio federal court.
-
October 30, 2024
Attorneys at Meltzer Lippe Goldstein & Breitstone LLP regularly made crude sexual jokes about women, promoted less qualified men at the expense of female employees, and fired a partner because she complained about the work environment, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in New York federal court.
-
October 29, 2024
The Sixth Circuit backed the dismissal Tuesday of race and age discrimination claims from a white former professor who said he was fired after criticizing a harassment investigation into his department chair, but revived his defamation claims against a colleague.
-
October 29, 2024
The Association of Legal Aid Attorneys did not violate anti-discrimination laws by moving to expel three attorneys who tried to stop the union from adopting a controversial pro-Palestine resolution, the union has argued, asking a New York federal judge to dismiss the attorneys' Title VII lawsuit.
-
October 29, 2024
A former human resources manager at Clorox's metro Atlanta plant has alleged she was forced out of her job for refusing to drop racial bias concerns about the company's hiring practices, according to a recent federal lawsuit.
-
October 29, 2024
A group of active and former Philadelphia Police Department officers disciplined for inflammatory Facebook activity have lost their First Amendment lawsuit against the city, with a Pennsylvania federal judge ruling Tuesday that the city had the right to terminate officers for making racist, violent and otherwise offensive posts.
-
October 29, 2024
A former University of Illinois at Springfield adjunct professor cannot revive her retaliation claims because she couldn't defeat the university's assertion that it was her own retaliation against others that led the university to let her contract expire, the Seventh Circuit said Tuesday.
-
October 29, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged the Ninth Circuit to reject a Christian humanitarian organization's argument that it was on solid legal ground to yank a job offer from an applicant after learning she was in a same-sex marriage, saying siding with the group will "undermine" Title VII.
-
October 29, 2024
Legislation proposed by two New York City Council members that would require letting workers use sick leave to care for pets and service animals is an unprecedented move and an acknowledgment of the rising importance employees place on mental health, experts say.