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October 31, 2024
A Washington federal judge hinted Thursday a former municipal employee's suit claiming Seattle's workplace diversity training discriminated against him as a white man might not have enough detail to survive, as the city's attorneys accused the plaintiff of trying to dismantle its racial justice initiative.
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October 31, 2024
A Texas federal judge temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Labor from using its internal judge system to pursue administrative proceedings against a government contractor for allegedly discriminatory hiring practices, citing a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that placed limitations on these in-house procedures.
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October 31, 2024
CBSViacom/Paramount beat a former employee's lawsuit claiming she was fired because she requested a medical exemption to the company's COVID-19 vaccination policy, with a New York federal judge ruling she failed to fix errors previously identified by the court.
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October 31, 2024
The National Football League and the Denver Broncos are urging a Colorado federal court to keep in federal court a linebacker's suit alleging they discriminated against him by fining him for using medically prescribed synthetic THC, saying amending his complaint to remove references to his contract is not enough to warrant removal.
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October 31, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit declined Thursday to revive a white Alabama cop's suit claiming he was fired by his Black boss out of racial bias, ruling he couldn't overcome the law enforcement agency's position that he was sacked for sharing confidential information and disparaging his employer.
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October 31, 2024
As two former Jones Day associates who are challenging the firm's family leave policy prepare to potentially go to trial in late 2025, Jones Day has told a D.C. federal court that a memorandum stating business reasons for a personnel decision shouldn't lose its status as privileged communication just because it references legal issues.
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October 31, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court said Thursday it set a January date to hear oral arguments in a case that could end up expanding the reach of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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October 31, 2024
A former legal professional for the New Jersey Economic Development Authority has filed a lawsuit against her ex-employer in state court, alleging the agency discriminated against her because of her disability and wrongfully fired her during a trying time in her life.
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October 31, 2024
The Fourth Circuit will hear from a nurse who was fired for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccination while the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will venture to the First, Tenth and Eleventh circuits to back up arguments made in amicus briefs. Here are four argument sessions employment discrimination attorneys should keep tabs on this month.
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October 31, 2024
The Ninth Circuit backed Credit One Bank's win over a former employee's claims that she was fired for complaining that her pay was docked while on medical leave, finding she couldn't overcome the bank's explanation that she had used slurs when referring to a supervisor.
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October 31, 2024
Check out the Law360 Pulse Leaderboard to see which firms made the list of leaders in all-around excellence this year.
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October 31, 2024
Competition for top talent among elite law firms shows no signs of slowing down, even amid economic uncertainty, with financially strong firms deploying aggressive strategies to attract and retain skilled professionals to solidify their market position.
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October 30, 2024
An Arkansas federal judge on Tuesday denied class certification to a former Tyson Foods employee accusing the company of placing her on unpaid leave after she sought a religious exemption for a COVID-19 vaccine requirement, saying she failed to show that proposed class members shared common legal or factual issues.
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October 30, 2024
The Fifth Circuit on Wednesday backed Texas A&M University's win over a professor's lawsuit claiming its hiring practices prevent white and Asian men's applications from being properly considered, finding his failure to actually seek a job at the school doomed his case.
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October 30, 2024
A California appeals court won't let the former CEO of Ford Models send a woman's suit brought under a state sex trafficking law to arbitration, saying her allegations don't fall within the scope of the arbitration agreement she signed.
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October 30, 2024
A biopharmaceutical development company can't kick a fired executive's bias suit to arbitration, a California federal judge said, ruling that the harassment she said she faced on the job was gendered enough to invoke a federal law curbing out-of-court-resolutions of sex harassment claims.
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October 30, 2024
An ousted Christian fire chief appealing his loss in a religious bias suit has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to ditch its longstanding McDonnell Douglas test, and a recent Maryland Supreme Court decision that narrowed a bias law exemption for religious employers is being challenged as unconstitutional. Here, Law360 looks at four employment litigation developments that flew under the radar this month.
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October 30, 2024
Grammy-nominated rap and hip-hop producer Metro Boomin was sued in California state court Tuesday for allegedly raping a woman who visited his recording studio in 2016, resulting in an unwanted pregnancy and an abortion.
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October 30, 2024
A Third Circuit panel on Wednesday attempted to parse distinctions between sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination as a former CVS manager argued that a trial court was wrong to find that a 2022 law limiting mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment claims didn't shield her bias suit from dismissal.
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October 30, 2024
The Eighth Circuit reopened a Black social worker's lawsuit alleging he received an unfavorable performance review because he asked for a new desk to work remotely in his wheelchair, ruling Wednesday that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision necessitated giving his case a second look.
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October 30, 2024
Southwest Airlines urged a California federal judge to disassemble a nearly 3,000-member class of workers who say the company violated federal law by failing to pay them for short stints of military leave, saying new evidence shows there are too many individualized issues to warrant class treatment.
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October 30, 2024
The D.C. Circuit declined to revive a fired FBI agent's suit claiming bias toward his Chinese ancestry caused the agency to yank his security clearance after he failed three polygraph tests, ruling the courts can't touch the case because the FBI's decision involved national security.
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October 30, 2024
The state of Texas announced Wednesday it launched another lawsuit accusing a physician of violating a state law barring healthcare providers from offering gender transition services to minors.
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October 30, 2024
A Nevada jury awarded a former Wynn Las Vegas cocktail server about $321,000 in damages from her claim that the casino resort operator interfered with her Family and Medical Leave Act rights, but didn't side with the worker on her discrimination allegation.
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October 30, 2024
Honda's manufacturing arm systematically bars Black workers from securing senior positions in the company by shrouding its promotional processes in secrecy, according to a proposed class action filed by a Black employee in Ohio federal court.