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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.
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October 07, 2024
The city of Durham, North Carolina, agreed Monday to pay $980,000 and adjust its hiring practices to resolve U.S. Department of Justice civil rights allegations that a written test used by the city's Fire Department in evaluating potential hires unintentionally discriminates against Black candidates.
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October 07, 2024
A Pepsi employee has hauled the snack and beverage multinational into New York federal court, alleging in a proposed class action that the company unlawfully imposes a "tobacco surcharge" on employees who use tobacco products while failing to adequately notify employees that they can instead join a company wellness program.
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October 07, 2024
A former Cordell & Cordell PC paralegal claiming she was fired over sexual harassment complaints can't ask a jury for punitive damages, a Kansas federal judge found during an ongoing trial, adopting the firm's position that she hasn't shown any willful violations.
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October 07, 2024
A New Jersey appeals panel won't upend a decision by the New Jersey Transit Corp. police chief terminating an officer for testing positive for THC, rejecting the officer's argument that the chief wrongly deviated from an administrative law judge's determination that the test was unreliable.
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October 07, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it won't review the revival of a gender bias case brought by a woman who said she was fired from her management role in a grocery store chain after her supervisor repeatedly said that management jobs were "too stressful" for women to handle.
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October 07, 2024
The Third Circuit backed on Monday a $1.2 million verdict for a white former jail guard who said he was fired after complaining that a supervisor called his biracial niece "a little monkey," rejecting the county's arguments that the evidence presented didn't merit the award.
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October 07, 2024
A proposed class of disabled attorneys lacks standing to pursue civil rights claims against Michigan alleging courthouses were inaccessible, the state has told a federal judge, arguing it is not responsible for local facilities and is otherwise protected by sovereign immunity under state disability laws.
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October 07, 2024
The acting director of the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs said Monday that a 16-year OFCCP veteran is now its Southeast regional director.