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November 21, 2024
A Los Angeles judge suggested Thursday that he'll likely keep alive a defamation suit accusing actress Rebel Wilson of spreading baseless lies about producers of the musical film "The Deb," saying it seems the matter is a "private business dispute" not protected by California's anti-SLAPP statute.
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November 21, 2024
IBM rewarded executives for meeting diversity goals and threatened them with punishment for failing to do so, essentially telling them to "discriminate or lose your job," a white male consultant who was terminated alleged in a suit filed in Michigan federal court on Wednesday.
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November 21, 2024
A Texas state court judge has dismissed for good an attorney's lawsuit against the mortgage company she formerly worked for in-house, despite a dispute over whether the matter should have ended with or without prejudice.
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November 21, 2024
A Wisconsin aluminum company urged the Seventh Circuit to uphold the dismissal of a human resource manager's suit claiming she was fired out of sex bias and for investigating a sexual harassment complaint, arguing that her repeated performance issues are what really got her canned.
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November 21, 2024
A suit claiming Delta Air Lines didn't include compensation information state law requires in job postings will be waiting for the Washington Supreme Court to determine what defines a job applicant, a Washington federal judge ruled.
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November 20, 2024
A Texas jury found in favor of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Wednesday in a suit that saw SkyWest Airlines accused of sitting idle while an employee experienced persistent sexual harassment, awarding over $2 million in punitive damages for the workplace misconduct in federal court.
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November 20, 2024
An Amazon.com unit fired a Black, gay executive assistant for complaining that he was unfairly passed over for promotions and belittled by a hostile supervisor, according to a lawsuit filed in Atlanta federal court.
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November 20, 2024
A freight railroad company defeated a Black former locomotive engineer's lawsuit claiming he was unlawfully fired for taking time off to care for his sick son, with an Illinois federal judge ruling Wednesday he was let go for repeated attendance policy violations, not his race.
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November 20, 2024
Ford inked a deal to end a former warehouse worker's suit claiming management stood by when she repeatedly complained that male colleagues touched her inappropriately on the job, according to a Tennessee federal court filing on Wednesday.
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November 20, 2024
A New Jersey trial court must revisit a municipal tax assessor's workplace retaliation claim as the case used by the court in its decision doesn't exempt assessors from the state's employee protection law, an appellate panel ruled Wednesday.
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November 20, 2024
A Georgia payments company agreed to pay $65,000 and adopt new workplace policies to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming it refused to let a diabetic employee work remotely during the pandemic, according to a federal court filing.
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November 20, 2024
A suit filed Wednesday in New Jersey federal court claims Jersey City Mayor Stephen Fulop fired an aide for supporting his Republican sister in an out-of-state race, in a bid by Fulop to bolster his progressive credentials as he prepares to run for New Jersey governor in 2025.
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November 20, 2024
Delta Air Lines Inc. was sued Tuesday in Georgia federal court by a former Black employee who said he was given a verbal warning and then fired for reporting racial discrimination he and other Black workers faced in the workplace.
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November 20, 2024
Amazon has settled an employee's suit claiming the online retail giant blocked him from promotions because he took leave to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, prompting a Washington federal judge on Wednesday to halt a trial that was set to begin in the case next month.
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November 20, 2024
Wynn Las Vegas urged a Nevada federal court to cut a server's $321,000 jury award and sanction her counsel in a suit alleging the casino interfered with her Family and Medical Leave Act rights, saying the award clashes with trial evidence and her counsel improperly made an eleventh-hour damages argument.
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November 20, 2024
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce urged the U.S. Supreme Court to back the Eleventh Circuit's determination that federal disability law doesn't protect former employees from post-employment bias, arguing a former Florida firefighter is trying to stretch the statute beyond what Congress intended.
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November 20, 2024
Fayetteville State University must face a Black worker's suit alleging she was fired after complaining that her white supervisor held animus toward Black employees, a North Carolina federal judge said, ruling that she put forward enough proof to show her complaints may have caused her dismissal.
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November 19, 2024
Tony Buzbee, a high-profile Texas personal injury lawyer known for representing women who have accused Sean "Diddy" Combs and Deshaun Watson of sexual abuse, was hit with a legal malpractice suit in New York state court Tuesday alleging that he assaulted a client seeking a divorce and deprived her of millions of dollars in settlement funds.
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November 19, 2024
A former employee of the Federal Reserve Board sued the central bank's leadership alleging he faced discrimination as a straight, white man and "utter disdain" from his managers, and that he was ultimately fired days before his planned retirement after refusing coronavirus vaccination on religious grounds.
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November 19, 2024
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told jurors Tuesday to "look at the questions" SkyWest Airlines didn't ask when an employee told the company she was experiencing persistent sexual harassment and that the company should've responded sooner.
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November 19, 2024
CSX Transportation can't beat a proposed class action alleging certain attendance and pay policies unlawfully penalize engineers, conductors and switchmen who take medical leave, an Ohio federal judge ruled, saying a jury should sort out how comparable other types of absences are.
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November 19, 2024
An Alabama federal judge tossed a Muslim worker's suit claiming Mercedes-Benz blocked him from praying outside his scheduled break times and thus prompted him to resign, finding Tuesday his case fell flat because he never faced any negative consequences after asking for a religious accommodation.
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November 19, 2024
United Parcel Service had a Black vice president show a less-qualified white co-worker the ropes, then handed the vice president role to the white worker and told the more seasoned employee she was no longer needed, according to a new lawsuit filed in Georgia federal court.
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November 19, 2024
The Tenth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a Nigerian pharmacist's suit claiming she was harassed and fired from a Kansas state hospital over her race and national origin, ruling Tuesday that the unpleasant workplace interactions she cited, though "troubling," weren't bad enough to sustain her case.
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November 19, 2024
Defense contractor Raytheon can't escape a former engineer's age discrimination suit claiming he was unjustly fired after he tapped a male colleague on the backside with a cafeteria tray, with a Texas federal judge saying Tuesday he wasn't convinced factual disputes in the case had been resolved.