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October 30, 2024
Attorneys at Meltzer Lippe Goldstein & Breitstone LLP regularly made crude sexual jokes about women, promoted less qualified men at the expense of female employees, and fired a partner because she complained about the work environment, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in New York federal court.
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October 29, 2024
The Sixth Circuit backed the dismissal Tuesday of race and age discrimination claims from a white former professor who said he was fired after criticizing a harassment investigation into his department chair, but revived his defamation claims against a colleague.
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October 29, 2024
The Association of Legal Aid Attorneys did not violate anti-discrimination laws by moving to expel three attorneys who tried to stop the union from adopting a controversial pro-Palestine resolution, the union has argued, asking a New York federal judge to dismiss the attorneys' Title VII lawsuit.
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October 29, 2024
A former human resources manager at Clorox's metro Atlanta plant has alleged she was forced out of her job for refusing to drop racial bias concerns about the company's hiring practices, according to a recent federal lawsuit.
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October 29, 2024
A group of active and former Philadelphia Police Department officers disciplined for inflammatory Facebook activity have lost their First Amendment lawsuit against the city, with a Pennsylvania federal judge ruling Tuesday that the city had the right to terminate officers for making racist, violent and otherwise offensive posts.
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October 29, 2024
A former University of Illinois at Springfield adjunct professor cannot revive her retaliation claims because she couldn't defeat the university's assertion that it was her own retaliation against others that led the university to let her contract expire, the Seventh Circuit said Tuesday.
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October 29, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged the Ninth Circuit to reject a Christian humanitarian organization's argument that it was on solid legal ground to yank a job offer from an applicant after learning she was in a same-sex marriage, saying siding with the group will "undermine" Title VII.
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October 29, 2024
Legislation proposed by two New York City Council members that would require letting workers use sick leave to care for pets and service animals is an unprecedented move and an acknowledgment of the rising importance employees place on mental health, experts say.
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October 29, 2024
A former development director for a North Carolina city urged the Fourth Circuit to rethink its opinion affirming the city's win on her unpaid overtime claims, saying it's not clear from the record that she was classified as exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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October 29, 2024
A long-running discrimination lawsuit against Allstate, filed by the insurance agency run by the son of baseball legend Roberto Clemente, has officially come to a close with a Tuesday dismissal following a settlement reached last month.
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October 29, 2024
An Illinois federal judge declined to gut core bias claims from a suit claiming a Chicago natural gas company disproportionately sent Black employees to dangerous neighborhoods where they were assaulted, rejecting the business' position that it can't be held liable for random crimes.
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October 29, 2024
Red Bull escaped a former account service manager's proposed collective action, alleging she didn't receive overtime and was immediately fired upon requesting a Family Medical Leave Act leave, after the parties acknowledged to a South Carolina federal court that arbitration was necessary.
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October 29, 2024
Delta Air Lines was sued in Georgia federal court on Monday by a former ramp agent who alleged the company used a new Transportation Security Administration program to fire him for taking periodic medical leave to treat pulmonary embolisms, a heart attack and COVID-19.
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October 28, 2024
A recent crop of suits accusing large employers of violating nondiscrimination provisions in federal benefits law by making workers who use nicotine pay more for health insurance underscore the risk of using fees to offset healthcare costs, attorneys say. Here are five nicotine surcharge suits to keep an eye on.
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October 28, 2024
A Colorado appeals court judge who co-founded the Colorado Disability Bar Association told a room of law students Monday that while the legal community has made progress on being inclusive of those with physical disabilities, work remains on accepting lawyers with "invisible disabilities" like mental health conditions, neurodivergence and chronic pain.
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October 28, 2024
The Second Circuit said Monday that a former cancer center fellow can't get a new trial in her suit claiming her supervisor promised to advance her career if she gave in to his sexual advances, ruling the compensatory damages award she received on a battery claim was fair.
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October 28, 2024
An Ohio hospital defeated a former nurse's lawsuit claiming he was forced out after the medical center rejected his request for a religious exemption from its COVID-19 vaccination policy, with a federal judge finding he was never disciplined for failing to get the jab.
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October 28, 2024
Amazon struck a deal to end a disability bias suit from a worker who said the retailer used bogus sexual harassment allegations as a smokescreen to fire him over nerve damage that limited his ability to work, according to a Wisconsin federal court filing Monday.
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October 28, 2024
The U.S. Department of Defense has reached a settlement in principle with a group of LGBTQ+ service members who sued the U.S. military in California federal court claiming veterans discharged under the former Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, which banned non-heterosexual service members, continued to face discrimination.
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October 28, 2024
J. Crew is asking a New York federal judge to confirm an arbitrator's ruling from earlier this month that found it hadn't fired its former legal chief, Maria DiLorenzo, in retaliation for her complaints about colleagues' discriminatory comments about her hearing loss.
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October 28, 2024
A malpractice suit filed in Philadelphia court alleges that attorneys at the Law Offices of Eric A. Shore did not properly manage a pair of federal employment discrimination cases for a power plant engineer, causing the dismissal of one complaint and a diminished jury verdict in the second.
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October 28, 2024
A debt collection company will pay $60,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming a call center worker was forced out for taking time off to practice Judaism, wrapping up a case that the Third Circuit revived in February.
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October 28, 2024
A fired TikTok marketing executive told a New York federal court the company can't short-circuit her suit claiming her age and gender landed her on a company "kill list," arguing that her case is protected by a law curbing mandatory arbitration because it includes sexual harassment allegations.
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October 25, 2024
The Sixth Circuit backed an Ohio State University-affiliated medical center's defeat of a nurse's lawsuit claiming she missed out on a promotion because she's Black, ruling Friday she couldn't overcome the hospital's explanation that a white male job candidate had better qualifications.
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October 25, 2024
A Roman Catholic diocese wants the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case that could broaden faith-based exemptions to a New York state law requiring worker health plans to provide abortion coverage, a matter that experts say could have wide implications for religious employers.