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October 29, 2024
A former development director for a North Carolina city urged the Fourth Circuit to rethink its opinion affirming the city's win on her unpaid overtime claims, saying it's not clear from the record that she was classified as exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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October 29, 2024
A long-running discrimination lawsuit against Allstate, filed by the insurance agency run by the son of baseball legend Roberto Clemente, has officially come to a close with a Tuesday dismissal following a settlement reached last month.
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October 29, 2024
An Illinois federal judge declined to gut core bias claims from a suit claiming a Chicago natural gas company disproportionately sent Black employees to dangerous neighborhoods where they were assaulted, rejecting the business' position that it can't be held liable for random crimes.
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October 29, 2024
Red Bull escaped a former account service manager's proposed collective action, alleging she didn't receive overtime and was immediately fired upon requesting a Family Medical Leave Act leave, after the parties acknowledged to a South Carolina federal court that arbitration was necessary.
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October 29, 2024
Delta Air Lines was sued in Georgia federal court on Monday by a former ramp agent who alleged the company used a new Transportation Security Administration program to fire him for taking periodic medical leave to treat pulmonary embolisms, a heart attack and COVID-19.
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October 28, 2024
A recent crop of suits accusing large employers of violating nondiscrimination provisions in federal benefits law by making workers who use nicotine pay more for health insurance underscore the risk of using fees to offset healthcare costs, attorneys say. Here are five nicotine surcharge suits to keep an eye on.
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October 28, 2024
A Colorado appeals court judge who co-founded the Colorado Disability Bar Association told a room of law students Monday that while the legal community has made progress on being inclusive of those with physical disabilities, work remains on accepting lawyers with "invisible disabilities" like mental health conditions, neurodivergence and chronic pain.
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October 28, 2024
The Second Circuit said Monday that a former cancer center fellow can't get a new trial in her suit claiming her supervisor promised to advance her career if she gave in to his sexual advances, ruling the compensatory damages award she received on a battery claim was fair.
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October 28, 2024
An Ohio hospital defeated a former nurse's lawsuit claiming he was forced out after the medical center rejected his request for a religious exemption from its COVID-19 vaccination policy, with a federal judge finding he was never disciplined for failing to get the jab.
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October 28, 2024
Amazon struck a deal to end a disability bias suit from a worker who said the retailer used bogus sexual harassment allegations as a smokescreen to fire him over nerve damage that limited his ability to work, according to a Wisconsin federal court filing Monday.
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October 28, 2024
The U.S. Department of Defense has reached a settlement in principle with a group of LGBTQ+ service members who sued the U.S. military in California federal court claiming veterans discharged under the former Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, which banned non-heterosexual service members, continued to face discrimination.
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October 28, 2024
J. Crew is asking a New York federal judge to confirm an arbitrator's ruling from earlier this month that found it hadn't fired its former legal chief, Maria DiLorenzo, in retaliation for her complaints about colleagues' discriminatory comments about her hearing loss.
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October 28, 2024
A malpractice suit filed in Philadelphia court alleges that attorneys at the Law Offices of Eric A. Shore did not properly manage a pair of federal employment discrimination cases for a power plant engineer, causing the dismissal of one complaint and a diminished jury verdict in the second.
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October 28, 2024
A debt collection company will pay $60,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming a call center worker was forced out for taking time off to practice Judaism, wrapping up a case that the Third Circuit revived in February.
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October 28, 2024
A fired TikTok marketing executive told a New York federal court the company can't short-circuit her suit claiming her age and gender landed her on a company "kill list," arguing that her case is protected by a law curbing mandatory arbitration because it includes sexual harassment allegations.
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October 25, 2024
The Sixth Circuit backed an Ohio State University-affiliated medical center's defeat of a nurse's lawsuit claiming she missed out on a promotion because she's Black, ruling Friday she couldn't overcome the hospital's explanation that a white male job candidate had better qualifications.
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October 25, 2024
A Roman Catholic diocese wants the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case that could broaden faith-based exemptions to a New York state law requiring worker health plans to provide abortion coverage, a matter that experts say could have wide implications for religious employers.
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October 25, 2024
A Connecticut appeals court on Friday declined to revive claims that Yale University and Travelers Indemnity Co. committed age discrimination with job postings seeking "recent" college graduates, reasoning that the court that threw out the cases properly interpreted state high court precedent.
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October 25, 2024
A California judge was undecided Friday about tossing on free speech grounds a defamation lawsuit from former Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider against Warner Brothers Discovery Inc. over its "Quiet on Set" docuseries, remarking during a hearing that such motions are so headache-inducing he must "remember to bring [his] Advil."
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October 25, 2024
Massachusetts' intermediate-level appeals court on Friday invalidated an arbitrator's denial of tenure to a teacher who took maternity leave during one of her first three years of teaching, ruling that the decision had wrongly penalized her for taking the protected time away from work.
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October 25, 2024
Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Michael Jeffries pled not guilty on Friday to charges of operating a sex trafficking and prostitution ring that preyed on male models, and was released to home confinement on a $10 million bond.
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October 25, 2024
A longtime employee of Bimbo Bakeries USA filed a federal age discrimination lawsuit against his former employer Wednesday claiming that the company forced him out of his job just over a year before he was scheduled to retire, over bogus allegations that he stole company time.
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October 25, 2024
A Michigan fast food franchisee failed to stop workers from misgendering a transgender employee and fired several people who spoke up against the harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a suit filed Friday.
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October 25, 2024
A former paralegal for Wells Fargo Bank NA hit her former employer with a discrimination suit alleging that she faced bias and was eventually terminated because of her health issues.
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October 25, 2024
A former Georgia municipal court administrator who said she was forced out of her position after reporting corruption by a city council member has asked a federal judge to preserve her suit in full, arguing a federal magistrate misapplied a sexual harassment standard to what was better characterized as retaliation claims.