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October 16, 2024
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday rejected Alaska Airlines' bid for the court to reconsider its August opinion reinstating a class action accusing the airline of illegally denying accrued vacation and sick time to pilots on military assignments.
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October 16, 2024
Two former Jones Day associates challenging the firm's family leave policy will go to trial in late 2025 after a D.C. federal judge allowed certain claims in the lawsuit to move forward.
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October 16, 2024
A historic Episcopal church in Lower Manhattan demoted a Black media relations manager and denied her professional opportunities because of her race after it brought in a new executive, according to a lawsuit filed in New York federal court.
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October 16, 2024
A lesbian nurse has hit a Georgia hospital and healthcare system with a proposed class action, alleging that the medical plan they offer employees discriminates against homosexual women by charging them more upfront to receive fertility care than women in heterosexual relationships.
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October 16, 2024
Foley Hoag LLP has asked a New York federal judge to toss most of the claims in an employee's suit alleging the firm failed to pay overtime wages and engaged in various forms of retaliation and discrimination against him, arguing the complaint "is largely devoid of well-pleaded factual allegations."
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October 16, 2024
A Columbia Law School professor accused plaintiffs employment firm Outten & Golden LLP of abruptly dropping her as a client amid the school's investigation into her comments on campus tensions tied to Israel's attack on Gaza, saying on X Wednesday that the firm's alleged conduct prompted her attorney to resign after nearly 24 years as a partner there.
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October 16, 2024
The NFL and NBA teams in New Orleans informed a Louisiana federal judge that they have settled a lawsuit with a former employee who claimed she was wrongfully fired after refusing a COVID-19 vaccine because of medical and religious reasons.
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October 16, 2024
A waste company agreed to hand over $1.4 million to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit filed in Florida federal court alleging it failed to step in when Black and Haitian employees were called racial slurs on the job.
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October 16, 2024
DLA Piper urged a New York federal court to throw out a former associate's lawsuit alleging that she was fired after requesting maternity leave, saying her work performance was "shockingly poor" during her one year with the firm.
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October 16, 2024
Duquesne University defeated a former gift officer's suit claiming he was fired for complaining that his boss reassigned work to a younger employee because he was in his 60s, with a Pennsylvania federal judge ruling that he failed to identify a comparable colleague who was treated better.
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October 16, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge refused Wednesday to toss a sex and age discrimination suit from a dermatologist who said she was unlawfully fired by the private equity-backed practice that bought her business, ruling she put forward enough details to keep her claims in play.
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October 16, 2024
A string of recent U.S. Department of Justice enforcement activity targeting state and local governments with claims of bias in hiring tests for first responders reflects a broader governmental focus on disparate impact and holds important lessons for private sector employers, experts said.
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October 16, 2024
The general counsel of Ashland University, a private university in Ohio, has made the move to private practice at Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC.
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October 15, 2024
Sean "Diddy" Combs was hit with six new lawsuits in Manhattan federal court Monday, alleging that for decades the hip-hop mogul sexually assaulted women, men and minors at parties and other events, including one woman who says he raped her at a promotional party for a Notorious B.I.G. music video.
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October 15, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged the Sixth Circuit to revive claims brought by two Black former workers that they faced racist harassment at a transportation company, arguing the lower court minimized that they were regularly called slurs on the job.
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October 15, 2024
The New York City nonprofit Legal Aid Society did nothing to address complaints that white employees regularly treated Black colleagues disrespectfully, including by excluding them from professional opportunities and using offensive language, a Black former staff attorney told a federal court.
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October 15, 2024
As states and cities across the country expand paid leave policies into new areas, military leave still gets the cold shoulder even as the legal landscape around short-term military leave has evolved, attorneys say.
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October 15, 2024
California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed a bill making the Golden State the first to enshrine intersectionality in its anti-discrimination laws, a move experts said will have a tangible impact on how cases are litigated. Here are three changes to watch for.
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October 15, 2024
Four waste removal companies have agreed to pay $3.1 million to shutter a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit in Georgia federal court alleging they passed over female applicants for truck driver positions.
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October 15, 2024
A North Carolina city's win over a former development director's discrimination and wage suit will stay in place, the Fourth Circuit ruled Tuesday, finding no error in a lower court's decisions.
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October 15, 2024
HCA Healthcare can't escape a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming it refused to promote a researcher because he was an Asian man in his 50s, a Tennessee federal judge ruled, saying the agency plausibly alleged that the medical company was his employer.
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October 15, 2024
A former legal staffer accusing World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. and former leader Vince McMahon of sex trafficking has linked a physical therapist, who she referenced in her federal complaint, with a Connecticut doctor and medical practice she is pursuing in state court for information about her treatments.
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October 15, 2024
An Illinois state appellate panel has backed a trial court's decision to toss a group of Chicago employees' lawsuit accusing the city of illegally adopting its COVID-19 vaccination policy, agreeing the workers have no legal basis for their claim.
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October 15, 2024
A Popeyes franchisee in Florida reached a deal with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after the agency found reasonable cause to believe the restaurant fired a worker because it learned she was pregnant.
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October 15, 2024
A continuing onslaught of legislation and litigation opposing corporate environmental, social and governance actions has created a fork in the road for law firms, with some choosing to scale back efforts and others pushing ahead with their internal ESG and diversity, equity and inclusion goals.