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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.
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October 09, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit backed Auburn University's win Wednesday in a Black former director's race bias and retaliation suit, ruling he couldn't overcome the university's position that he was fired for delaying a report about potential student-athlete favoritism.
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October 09, 2024
The U.S. Postal Service must pay a Black former custodian $75,000 in damages after a Minnesota federal jury found the agency didn't do enough to stop colleagues from directing racist slurs, threats of violence and other harassment at him and his wife.
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October 09, 2024
The arbitration pacts that two former employees at a New Jersey law firm filed cover their discrimination claims, a New Jersey state court judge ruled, handing the Bergen County-based personal injury firm a partial win in the workers' wage and bias suit.
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October 09, 2024
An automotive interior supply company struck a deal with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to end the agency's suit claiming it spurned its legal responsibility to report demographic data about its workforce, an Alabama federal court filing said.
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October 09, 2024
Counsel for a former Novant Health Inc. executive who won $4.3 million after accusing the company of firing him during a diversity push because he was white got $154,000 in attorney fees for successfully defending the award on appeal, slightly less than what was requested.
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October 09, 2024
Award-winning sports journalist Jim Trotter and the National Football League on Wednesday agreed to settle his federal lawsuit accusing the league and its media arm of retaliating against him for persistently raising concerns about discriminatory hiring.
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October 08, 2024
A woman accusing former World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. executive chair Vince McMahon in Connecticut federal court of pressuring her into performing sex acts in exchange for an entry-level job has asked both McMahon and the company to voluntarily waive nondisclosure agreements, saying she and other accusers could help reform WWE's "toxic and sexualized culture."
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October 08, 2024
The Fifth Circuit backed Texas A&M University-Kingsville's win in a Mexican American former professor's suit claiming he was denied tenure out of racial bias, ruling Tuesday that his case lacks proof of discrimination and that his scholarship fell short of tenure requirements.
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October 08, 2024
A former minor league umpire who claims he was sexually harassed by a female umpire filed an expanded suit Tuesday against Major League Baseball after settlement talks failed.
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October 08, 2024
The Society for Human Resource Management can't escape a Black Egyptian ex-employee's lawsuit claiming she was fired for opposing her supervisor's favoritism toward white workers, with a Colorado federal judge ruling Tuesday that a jury should analyze the organization's rationale that she was let go for missing deadlines.
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October 08, 2024
The D.C. Circuit seemed reluctant Tuesday to reopen a retired government employee's discrimination suit against a federal employee union, with several judges suggesting that her claims don't belong in federal court.
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October 08, 2024
The Fifth Circuit upheld a win for the USPS in a retired post office clerk's suit claiming she faced discrimination and harassment on the job due to her age and disability, saying she didn't face "anything close" to a hostile work environment.
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October 08, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court has taken up a case that experts predict will be used to jettison a legal test that's made it harder for some people in "majority" groups to bring Title VII cases, potentially leading to a rise in so-called reverse discrimination lawsuits. Here are three things to keep an eye on if the high court changes the legal landscape.
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October 08, 2024
An organization representing the largest U.S. airlines urged an Illinois federal court to keep afloat its challenge to Chicago's new paid sick leave law, saying its claims that the statute would impact flight prices and routes are fact-intensive and should proceed to discovery.
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October 08, 2024
A Kansas federal jury on Monday sided with a law firm that bills itself as an advocate for divorced fathers, shutting down a suit from a paralegal who claimed she was fired for speaking up about sexual harassment by one of the firm's attorneys.
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October 08, 2024
Cleveland State University faculty defeated a former professor's suit alleging he was unlawfully fired for publishing research asserting intelligence differences between white and Black people, with an Ohio federal judge finding he was let go for abusing access to restricted data, not his research subject.
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October 08, 2024
Harvard University has urged a Massachusetts federal judge to dismiss a former ice hockey coach's suit alleging she was paid less than her male counterparts and was forced into retirement, arguing the claims were mostly made after the statute of limitations had expired and failed to make a connection to an action taken by the school.
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October 08, 2024
A boarding school agreed to settle a suit from an Asian American electrician who said he was fired after raising concerns that he was the victim of racism related to COVID-19, staving off a trial scheduled for November in Pennsylvania federal court.