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October 23, 2024
A former U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs worker must return a $90,000 award she won in internal proceedings accusing a supervisor of sexual harassment, a Mississippi federal judge ruled, saying she must pay back the money because she lost a subsequent court case over the same allegations.
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October 23, 2024
A Texas federal judge on Wednesday signed off on a former Norton Rose Fulbright IT worker's agreement to drop his lawsuit, which accused the firm of discriminating against the ex-employee when it fired him after he refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine because he didn't feel peace with the Holy Spirit about being inoculated.
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October 23, 2024
A California appeals court revived a United Airlines flight attendant's sex bias suit claiming she was unlawfully fired for appearing in uniform on a social media page advertising her OnlyFans account, crediting her argument that male flight attendants didn't face the same consequences for similar behavior.
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October 23, 2024
An Illinois law firm has accused one of its former paralegals of attempting to stiff the firm for work it did settling his discrimination suit against the Chicago Bears, alleging that the erstwhile employee declined to file key paperwork and deleted critical files.
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October 23, 2024
Arxada and its general counsel struck back at a former in-house attorney's claims in a New Jersey state court lawsuit that the specialty chemicals company unlawfully dismissed her in the days after she talked about taking leave to recover from a miscarriage.
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October 23, 2024
Harvard University is intentionally protecting students and faculty accused of antisemitism and an assault on a Jewish student last year, "hoping this whole thing goes away," a lawyer for two student groups said during a hearing Wednesday on the Ivy League school's bid to end a second civil rights lawsuit.
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October 23, 2024
A New York state judge on Wednesday denied Harvey Weinstein a separate trial for his new sexual assault charge, ruling that he must face that allegation alongside his original indictment at a retrial that is now expected to begin in early 2025.
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October 22, 2024
A former press secretary for Republican lawmakers in the Connecticut House of Representatives failed to prevent or correct alleged workplace harassment that included cursing by waiting a year to report a key incident cited in her complaint, state House Republicans argued in an answer to the ex-spokesperson's discrimination lawsuit.
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October 22, 2024
A former human resources officer in the Southern District of Texas lodged a retaliation suit against the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday, claiming she had to wait 100 days for her post-traumatic stress disorder-related accommodation request to be approved.
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October 22, 2024
A former Intel executive must reveal his name in his suit claiming the company fired him for complaining that his boss openly supported Hamas, a New York federal judge ruled Tuesday, finding concerns of retaliation from Hamas or anti-Israel protesters are too speculative to justify anonymity.
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October 22, 2024
Elevance asked a Maine federal court to toss a worker's proposed class action alleging subsidiary Anthem violated healthcare nondiscrimination law by denying coverage for a weight loss drug to treat obesity, arguing the insurer's decision was based on her employer's plan exclusion and not bias.
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October 22, 2024
Employers need to be careful about their job advertisements on third-party platforms, attorneys said, as state pay range laws take different approaches to liability for such postings.
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October 22, 2024
The Ninth Circuit refused to reopen a former Sbarro employee's lawsuit claiming she was repeatedly sexually harassed and assaulted by a manager and co-workers, ruling she hadn't identified any reversible error committed by the lower court during a jury trial that ended in a verdict favoring the company.
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October 22, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission hasn't properly reported incidents of workplace antisemitism dating back to Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, a Republican senator said in a letter to the agency Tuesday requesting further data.
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October 22, 2024
For decades, a handful of New York-based law firms thoroughly dominated the national consciousness when it came to power, profitability and prestige. But in today's legal market, increased movement of partners and clients from one firm to the next has begun to shake things up and create opportunities for go-getters to ascend the ranks.
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October 22, 2024
Check out our Prestige Leaders ranking, analysis and interactive graphics to see which firms stand out for their financial performance, attractiveness to attorneys and law students, ability to secure accolades and positive legal news media representation.
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October 22, 2024
A Washington federal judge said AutoNation Inc. can't scrap a $2.5 million arbitration award for a former sales manager who said he was fired due to his age, rejecting the company's concerns that the order was not properly calculated.
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October 22, 2024
Former Abercrombie & Fitch Co. CEO Mike Jeffries was indicted Tuesday on charges he ran an international sex trafficking and prostitution ring that abused male models who were led to believe their participation in sex parties would benefit their careers.
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October 21, 2024
The lawyer for a former human resources manager at a South Florida law firm told a federal jury Monday that she was fired for being pregnant, saying that her ex-employer made her come into work despite a doctor's note telling her to stay home after determining that she had a high-risk pregnancy.
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October 21, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told the Sixth Circuit on Monday that a trial court wrongly tossed an insurance company worker's disability bias suit claiming she was fired for defying its COVID-19 vaccination mandate because of her antibiotics allergy, arguing the condition is considered a disability.
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October 21, 2024
Terminated SpaceX employees on Monday urged a California federal judge to remand their hostile work environment and retaliation case to state court due to lack of diversity jurisdiction, arguing that when they first sued, SpaceX's principal place of business was Hawthorne, California, not Starbase, Texas, where the company later moved.
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October 21, 2024
Hooters will pay $250,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming it failed to bring back most of its Black employees when it reopened a North Carolina restaurant during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a filing in federal court Monday.
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October 21, 2024
A nonprofit that runs child development centers in California will pay $150,000 after a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation found it fired a worker after he asked for an accommodation for his intellectual and cognitive disabilities, the agency announced Monday.
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October 21, 2024
Lilly Ledbetter, whose unequal pay lawsuit against her employer sparked a 2009 law and led her to dedicate the rest of her life to fighting for pay equity, recently died at 86. Those who worked with her say her legacy lives on in the ongoing fight to close the wage gap.
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October 21, 2024
Communications company WPP Group USA's vice president and counsel for the Americas rejoined Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC on Monday as a labor and employment shareholder, the firm said.