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November 19, 2024
A Tenth Circuit judge seemed incredulous Tuesday at a healthcare provider's argument that making an employee undergo company-sponsored mental health counseling to keep their job doesn't qualify as the kind of workplace action that can sustain an Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit.
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November 19, 2024
The Sixth Circuit refused to reopen a former St. Jude Children's Research Hospital employee's lawsuit claiming she was unlawfully fired for requesting a religious exception from the medical center's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, finding it would have been too difficult for the hospital to accommodate her request.
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November 19, 2024
George Mason University asked a court to throw out the remainder of former professor Joshua Wright's lawsuit over its investigation of a Title IX retaliation claim against him related to allegations of sexual misconduct, saying Monday that the school had already dismissed the claim by the time he filed his amended complaint.
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November 19, 2024
A former BJ's Wholesale Club Inc. meat buyer who oversaw more than $12 billion in annual sales of beef and lamb for the Massachusetts-based company says he was fired after the retailer refused to accommodate his need to care for his ailing wife, according to a complaint filed on Monday in state court.
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November 19, 2024
A Michigan federal judge refused to toss a religious bias suit from a worker who said the MGM Grand Detroit fired him for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccination, ruling a jury should decide whether the casino could have accommodated his beliefs by letting him skip the jab.
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November 19, 2024
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s embattled chairman, Martin Gruenberg, said Tuesday that he will step down and retire from the agency before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, clearing the way for a new, likely Republican leader at the deposit insurer.
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November 19, 2024
An Allentown, Pennsylvania, law firm is asking a federal judge to dismiss a former paralegal's claim that the firm fired her due to her panic disorder, arguing that among other things, the paralegal failed to prove she has a legitimate disability recognized by law.
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November 18, 2024
A California state senator accused by her former chief of staff of sexual harassment fired back with a countersuit alleging he stole $50,000 from her campaign, abused drugs and "indicated" to her that he is responsible for the notorious unsolved homicide of Chandra Levy.
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November 18, 2024
A former Halliburton employee asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to overturn a Tenth Circuit order shuttering his age bias suit after finding he couldn't challenge an arbitration award because the case was voluntarily dismissed, arguing the ruling creates a "twilight zone" in the law.
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November 18, 2024
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has urged a federal judge to expunge a $12.69 million jury award won by a former employee who claimed she was unlawfully fired because her religious beliefs forbade her from getting a COVID-19 vaccination, saying her evidence of discrimination wasn't up to snuff.
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November 18, 2024
A group of Georgia General Mills plant workers who said their workplace was run by a clique of neo-Confederate racists fought back Monday against the company's bid to toss the suit, arguing the plant remains "haunted" by a legacy of white supremacist leadership.
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November 18, 2024
A California federal magistrate judge expressed doubts Monday about BlackBerry's latest bid to toss claims that its current CEO sexually harassed a former executive before he took the top job, saying she's unsure if she can decide at the pleading stage what constitutes "objectively severe" discrimination.
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November 18, 2024
The Trump Corp. asked a New York federal court to force an insurer to defend it in a more than $500,000 wage theft and age discrimination dispute brought by a former employee of a company-managed luxury condo in Manhattan.
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November 18, 2024
A Washington federal judge reduced a $237.6 million jury verdict in a Black former UPS driver's lawsuit claiming he was treated differently than his white colleagues and fired for speaking up, ruling the worker hadn't provided enough evidence to support jurors' $198 million punitive damages award.
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November 18, 2024
A federal judge in Washington state has rejected a worker's eleventh-hour bid to amend his lawsuit accusing Amazon of passing him up for a promotion after he took protected military leave, saying the operations manager cannot "ambush" the e-commerce giant with fresh retaliation allegations just weeks before a trial in December.
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November 18, 2024
An anonymous public figure lodged a suit in Los Angeles court Monday accusing personal injury lawyer Tony Buzbee of using false rape allegations to "shake down innocent celebrities, politicians and businesspeople" who have even the smallest ties to indicted hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs.
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November 18, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's general counsel is scheduled to make an uncommon courtroom appearance Tuesday when she ventures to the Tenth Circuit to argue that the U.S. Supreme Court's April decision in Muldrow v. St. Louis eases the path forward for workers bringing disability discrimination claims.
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November 18, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice said it reached an agreement to resolve claims that a California staffing company refused to accept a valid work authorization document from a woman seeking employment.
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November 18, 2024
A split Third Circuit panel said a group of Christian workers can't revive suits claiming a healthcare provider illegally fired them for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine on religious grounds, finding they failed to show how their beliefs prevented them from getting immunized.
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November 18, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review a U.S. Army veteran's suit claiming Volvo fired her because of her military service and post-traumatic stress disorder, leaving in place a Seventh Circuit decision that refused to reinstate a $7.8 million jury verdict in her favor.
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November 15, 2024
Ye has been hit with yet another employee lawsuit, this time from a former project manager alleging he was subjected to daily antisemitic tirades, forced to listen to the rapper have sex, and ultimately fired for refusing to start construction on a new Donda Academy building without permits.
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November 15, 2024
A Texas appeals court won't toss a defamation suit accusing a former Peloton employee of falsely claiming to company executives and New Jersey police that she was bullied by her workplace acquaintance, an in-house attorney, after finding she can't avail herself of a state statute protecting citizens from retaliatory lawsuits.
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November 15, 2024
The University of Colorado Boulder has agreed to pay $4.5 million to resolve a proposed class action claiming hundreds of female faculty members were owed back pay after the school raised their salaries without making up for years of undercompensation, according to a state court filing.
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November 15, 2024
The First Circuit upheld the dismissal of an 80-year-old Trader Joe's employee's suit claiming she was fired from the grocery chain out of age bias, ruling Friday that she failed to show that bias drove the company's call to terminate her after she admitted to buying beer for her underage grandson.
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November 15, 2024
Six Republican senators wrote a letter to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Inspector General Jennifer L. Fain asking for a briefing on the FDIC's progress investigating claims of widespread misconduct at the agency, asserting there has been "a shocking lack of urgency."