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October 04, 2024
A dispensary in Los Angeles failed to fairly compensate workers and allowed its CEO to sexually harass a former employee, she told a California state court.
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October 04, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to wade into an age discrimination lawsuit from a former Halliburton employee who said his case was wrongly shut down when the Tenth Circuit ruled a trial court lacked the power to reopen it following arbitration.
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October 04, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday it will review a discrimination lawsuit by a former Ohio Department of Youth Services worker claiming she was denied a promotion and then demoted for being heterosexual while LGBTQ candidates were advanced.
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October 04, 2024
Greenberg Traurig LLP is boosting its West Coast team, bringing in WeWork's former global head of employment law as a shareholder in its San Francisco office.
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October 03, 2024
Cognizant Technologies rested its defense Thursday of class action claims that it is biased toward Indian workers after a company executive testified that the number of employee transfers from India to the U.S. has steadily decreased since 2014, bringing to a close live testimony in the racially charged retrial.
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October 03, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit said Thursday it would not reconsider a decision that allowed a Florida law that bans gender-affirming care for transgender minors and restricts it for adults to take effect.
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October 03, 2024
The Second Circuit reinstated Thursday a former principal's suit claiming the New York City Department of Education hit her with a bogus investigation after she complained about racial bias, ruling the lower court was wrong to find a carveout for Title VI retaliation claims killed her case.
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October 03, 2024
One attorney hasn't lost a single U.S. Supreme Court case she's argued, or even a single justice's vote. One attorney is perhaps "the preeminent SCOTUS advocate." And one may soon become U.S. solicitor general, despite acknowledging there are "judges out there who don't like me." All three are among a dozen lawyers in the vanguard of the Supreme Court bar's next generation, poised to follow in the footsteps of the bar's current icons.
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October 03, 2024
Country music star Garth Brooks' former hair and makeup stylist sued him in California state court on Thursday, claiming he raped her in a Los Angeles hotel room while preparing for a Recording Academy event in 2019.
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October 03, 2024
An Oklahoma federal judge on Thursday teed up for trial a former campus police officer's claims alleging a school district refused to rehire him because he was 65 and had lodged complaints about a superior, but threw out his allegation that he was deprived of his due process rights.
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October 03, 2024
A former Dollar Tree store manager failed to support her claims that she faced retaliation over her Family and Medical Leave Act request to take time off to care for her disabled son due to the coronavirus pandemic, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled, handing a partial win to the retailer.
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October 03, 2024
The Fourth Circuit has revived part of a discrimination suit by a Black former chief grants management officer with the National Institutes of Health, reasoning in a published opinion that the lower court failed to consider her retaliation claim solely in the context of the complaint's allegations.
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October 03, 2024
A Delaware state agency defeated a former employee's lawsuit alleging she faced increased scrutiny from supervisors because of her service dog and was terminated while on medical leave, with a federal judge ruling Thursday that the department is immune from her federal bias claims.
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October 03, 2024
Jones Day will have to defend its family leave policy at trial against claims from married ex-associates who say it is discriminatory and violates District of Columbia law, a D.C. federal judge said Thursday in concluding such bias allegations were a close call.
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October 03, 2024
The Maryland Department of State Police has agreed to pay $2.75 million to settle a U.S. Department of Justice suit claiming it used physical fitness and written tests to screen out Black and female applicants for entry-level trooper positions.
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October 03, 2024
A Washington-based construction services company pulled a 67-year-old assembler's job placement because of a manager's incorrect assumption about his physical capabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in a complaint filed in federal court.
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October 03, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing a Colorado marijuana dispensary, alleging that it fired a budtender for memory issues stemming from a mini stroke when she was nine years old, while privately calling her a "fruitcake."
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October 03, 2024
Liberty University asked a Virginia federal judge Thursday to toss a transgender worker's suit claiming she was fired after she announced she was transitioning, arguing it was allowed to fire her because her gender identity ran counter to the school's religious beliefs.
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October 03, 2024
A Venable LLP administrative assistant has sued her employer in Los Angeles Superior Court, accusing the firm of denying her medically necessary work from home request in violation of the Fair Employment and Housing Act by forcing her into unpaid administrative leave.
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October 02, 2024
Kirkland & Ellis LLP told a California federal magistrate judge Wednesday that a former Kirkland intellectual property associate has delayed discovery production in her discrimination lawsuit against the firm, arguing that her discovery responses cite an erroneous legal standard, are non-committal and are "not even close to being proper."
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October 02, 2024
A Cognizant Technologies vice president repeatedly denied in testimony Wednesday that the company is biased toward Indian workers in a class action brought by former employees, and said the company's high percentage of Indian workers with visas is due to the "vast pool of engineering talent" in that country.
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October 02, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a surge of new suits before its fiscal year wrapped up Monday but still ended up bringing fewer cases than the previous year, which management-side experts attribute to the agency focusing on potentially high-impact systemic suits and targeting key priorities. Here are five takeaways as the calendar flips at the EEOC.
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October 02, 2024
An Eleventh Circuit panel on Wednesday rejected a former football coach's request to reconsider its decision not to reopen a lawsuit alleging that a Georgia school district refused to renew his contract because he is white.
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October 02, 2024
The Third Circuit reinstated a suit Wednesday from a window factory manager in Pennsylvania who said he was fired for opposing the termination of two Black employees who didn't show up for their shifts, rejecting the lower court's concerns that he didn't clearly oppose the move as discriminatory.
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October 02, 2024
Delaware County, Pennsylvania, has been hit with a lawsuit claiming its officials ignored its emergency services director's sexual harassment of a female employee, in keeping with the county's alleged history of failing to protect women from the director's inappropriate behavior.