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September 20, 2024
The Seventh Circuit backed United Airlines' defeat of a former flight attendant's lawsuit claiming he was fired for taking time off to deal with his alcoholism, saying he couldn't overcome the airline's explanation that he was fired for harassing a colleague he used to date.
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September 20, 2024
An Arizona framing company reached a deal with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to resolve a federal court suit alleging it failed to file reports on its workforce demographic data as required under federal law.
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September 20, 2024
A California federal judge threw out several claims in a retired police lieutenant's lawsuit alleging the city of Los Angeles denied sick time and promotions to police officers who took military leave, although the parties have taken issue with the scope of the judge's order.
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September 19, 2024
A former George Mason University law professor can't stop the school or its Title IX coordinator from investigating sexual misconduct claims lodged against him, but he can pursue some of the claims in his suit over the university's handling of the sexual misconduct accusations, a Virginia federal judge ruled Thursday.
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September 19, 2024
A Maryland federal court approved a $350,000 settlement between an Amalgamated Transit Union affiliate and a former union employee, resolving the worker's overtime claim under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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September 19, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit upheld on Thursday a bank's win over a sex and age discrimination suit lodged by two female former employees, with the panel using the case as an opportunity to "clear up" what it characterized as tricky areas of anti-discrimination case law.
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September 19, 2024
Reality show contestants have hit an Amazon Studios unit and the maker of the MrBeast YouTube channel with a proposed labor class action in California court, alleging they "shamelessly" exploited "Beat Games" contestants while threatening their livelihoods and misrepresenting their odds at winning the new show's $5 million grand prize.
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September 19, 2024
The North Carolina Department of Justice agreed to settle a Black attorney's lawsuit alleging she was passed over for promotion in favor of a less qualified white man, according to court filings, just weeks after a federal judge refused to toss the case.
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September 19, 2024
A Washington federal judge has again tossed a lawsuit against Boeing over a love triangle that led a Boeing employee to murder his coworker, dismissing the case for good because the killing did not occur during working hours or at the workplace.
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September 19, 2024
The Fifth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a suit from three Black Louisiana police officers who claimed they suffered racist harassment and were fired or demoted after complaining that the city botched a use-of-force investigation, ruling they lacked proof of retaliation and the abuse they allegedly endured didn't qualify as severe.
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September 19, 2024
A former Ballard Spahr LLP legal assistant on Thursday agreed to drop a Pennsylvania civil rights lawsuit alleging that the firm fired her in retaliation for taking leave protected by the Family and Medical Leave Act in order to care for her husband, who was battling cancer.
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September 19, 2024
An Indiana-based staffing agency struck a deal to resolve allegations that accommodated clients' preferences for workers based on protected characteristics like race and sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said.
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September 19, 2024
Seventh Circuit judges considering a retaliation suit from a University of Illinois Chicago Law School professor who used a racist slur in an exam hypothetical asked Thursday if law schools should really be a "safe space" shielding students from the kind of "horrific facts" courts deal with regularly.
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September 19, 2024
The Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs will pay $175,000 to end a U.S. Department of Justice suit alleging it offered a female job applicant a lower salary than what it paid a man for the same position, according to a filing Thursday in federal court.
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September 19, 2024
The Defender Association of Philadelphia says a Black former public defender has no basis for racial bias allegations stemming from her allegedly discriminatory firing, arguing that her claims were investigated and rejected by the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission.
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September 19, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge tossed a race and disability bias suit from an American Airlines worker who said she was fired over a positive drug test triggered by her ADHD medication, ruling she hadn't presented evidence that bias drove the decision to let her go.
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September 19, 2024
A logistics company must face a Black former employee's suit alleging it failed to prevent a white co-worker who displayed a Confederate flag on his phone from subjecting him to a racist threat, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled, saying a jury should weigh whether the company should have stepped in.
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September 19, 2024
A California federal judge has dismissed sexual assault and trafficking claims against New York Knicks owner James Dolan, casting a hired massage therapist's accusations against him as "speculative" but leaving the door open for further litigation in state court.
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September 18, 2024
Verizon's Maryland arm has agreed to pay $115,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it refused to let an employee transfer to a job that wouldn't aggravate his hypertension, the agency told a federal court.
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September 18, 2024
A Democrat-backed bill that would curb federal agencies' ability to use past medical or recreational cannabis use as a factor in hiring and security clearance decisions was advanced out of a Senate committee Wednesday, paving the way for a vote before the whole chamber.
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September 18, 2024
Walmart has agreed to pay a former sales associate $85,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the retail giant fired her when she requested medical leave to treat her Crohn's disease, according to a North Carolina federal court filing.
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September 18, 2024
A Massachusetts medical marijuana dispensary can enforce an arbitration clause in its employment agreement even when it did not specify the rights a worker was waiving, an intermediate state appellate court has said.
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September 18, 2024
A retired Florida firefighter called on the U.S. Supreme Court to find that former employees can bring claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act pertaining to post-employment benefits, challenging an Eleventh Circuit ruling that determined only current employees can file these disability bias suits.
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September 18, 2024
A federal judge threw out a suit from a Black pharmacist who said racial bias led to him being disciplined after he was falsely accused of falling asleep on the job at the University of Pennsylvania hospital, ruling there wasn't enough proof that prejudice was involved.
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September 18, 2024
Harvey Weinstein pled not guilty to a new sexual assault indictment in Manhattan state court on Wednesday as he faces a November retrial after his earlier New York rape conviction was vacated.