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October 11, 2024
A Pennsylvania public transit employee didn't have the requisite "serious health condition" to back his workplace retaliation claims under the federal Family Medical Leave Act, the Third Circuit ruled Friday, declining to reinstate a trial victory for the bus driver.
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October 11, 2024
An insurer said it has no duty to defend or indemnify two restaurant franchise operators accused of violating Washington's Equal Pay and Opportunities Act, telling a federal court that the allegations do not trigger coverage under an employment practices liability insurance policy.
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October 11, 2024
A former Babson College professor of South Asian descent has resolved a suit alleging she was demeaned by a white male colleague and blocked by the school from advancing her career.
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October 11, 2024
Michigan Technological University has asked a judge to toss a jury verdict in favor of a former professor in a pregnancy discrimination case, saying evidence related to the professor's theory that the college was planning to deny her tenure should have been kept out of trial.
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October 11, 2024
Prosecutors asked a New York state court judge to consolidate Harvey Weinstein's 2018 rape indictment with newly filed sexual assault charges ahead of his retrial, panning the former Hollywood producer's "creative" arguments for separate trials.
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October 11, 2024
An Indiana city's police department used written and physical fitness tests that disadvantaged Black and female applicants, effectively screening them out for officer positions, the U.S. Department of Justice alleged Friday in a new federal lawsuit.
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October 11, 2024
This week, the Second Circuit will consider the National Labor Relations Board's bid to enforce an order finding a school founded by members of the Blue Man Group refused to bargain with a United Auto Workers local after the union's 2021 election victory.
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October 11, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced it reached a deal with a farm labor contractor to resolve a worker's discrimination charge claiming the business pulled her off the job when she asked to attend pregnancy-related medical appointments.
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October 11, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for the potential final approval of a nearly $12 million deal to resolve a wage and hour class action against PNC Bank NA. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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October 10, 2024
A New York federal judge ruled that an arbitrator must decide whether the ousted former chairperson of software investment company The Resource Group International Ltd., who was forced to resign in late 2021 following a widely reported sexual harassment scandal, can pursue some of his claims in arbitration.
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October 10, 2024
A former worker for Ye's short-lived presidential campaign sued in California state court Thursday alleging the Grammy-winning rapper had him investigate the Kardashian family for alleged sex trafficking before their relationship soured and Ye threatened to kill him.
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October 10, 2024
Charter Communications and a former employee told a New York federal court Thursday that they have agreed to dismiss the former NY1 senior producer's suit alleging she was fired for opposing a male colleague's sexual advances within a company culture that disparaged older female employees.
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October 10, 2024
A U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs social worker can't revive her suit claiming she was denied a promotion because she's Black, the Eighth Circuit ruled Thursday, saying she has not demonstrated that her race impacted the decision to select a different candidate.
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October 10, 2024
A pending U.S. Supreme Court case in which a former firefighter alleges a cut in her retirement benefits violated the Americans with Disabilities Act could eventually yield a ruling that brings more people under the ADA's protections, experts say.
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October 10, 2024
A former Citibank senior vice president and head of the bank's fair employment practices said Thursday she lost her job after becoming pregnant and suffering from pregnancy-related complications, accusing Citibank of discrimination.
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October 10, 2024
A Georgia federal judge has ruled that a doctor's amended complaint for his discrimination, retaliation and defamation lawsuit against Emory Healthcare Inc. and the Atlanta Falcons Football Club mooted their motions to dismiss the doctor's claims against them.
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October 10, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commision said Thursday that the company behind Restaurant Depot agreed to overhaul its internal complaint process after an EEOC investigation found a store manager had sexually harassed female workers.
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October 09, 2024
As the U.S. Supreme Court's new term gets underway, several cases that could have significant implications for anti-discrimination law are vying for a spot on the docket. Here, Law360 looks at three petitions for review that should be on discrimination attorneys’ radar.
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October 09, 2024
A hair and makeup artist told a judge Wednesday that Garth Brooks publicly revealed her name out of spite and retaliation after she sued him for rape, urging the court to sanction the country star and his lawyers for this "appalling and malicious behavior."
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October 09, 2024
A Connecticut man who describes himself as a "well-known" whistleblower at Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. says he was illegally terminated for reporting alleged wage and hour and environmental violations to government authorities, claiming the helicopter manufacturer fired him using bogus allegations he broke into an office he was given clearance to access.
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October 09, 2024
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday reversed a ruling from a Montana federal judge striking for all healthcare settings a state law that bars discrimination based on vaccine status, calling the claimed harms to healthcare workers and patients "too speculative" to find it conflicted with federal law.
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October 09, 2024
The Fifth Circuit revived a former civilian U.S. Air Force employee's lawsuit alleging she was given negative performance reviews after rejecting colleagues' sexual advances, saying a lower court needs to reevaluate her claims under a year-old circuit standard that allows for a wider range of bias allegations.
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October 09, 2024
A Colorado marijuana dispensary has agreed to pay $95,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it fired a worker for failing to clock in and out of her shifts, even though she informed supervisors that she had memory issues due to her disabilities.
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October 09, 2024
The former head coach of a Connecticut college's women's lacrosse team has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit claiming that he faced sex discrimination in a "hypersensitive" environment and was wrongfully fired for unprofessionalism, even though women who engaged in similar conduct went unpunished.
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October 09, 2024
The founder and chairman of the World Economic Forum told a New York federal court he had nothing to do with the firing of a Black employee, arguing that he should be left out of the worker's discrimination suit.