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July 02, 2024
The Eighth Circuit recently made it easier for disabled workers to get bias cases to trial by reining in a legal shield employers can deploy against Americans with Disabilities Act claims, a step one disability law expert called "revolutionary."
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July 02, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit reinstated a suit Tuesday from a worker who claimed a Florida school board illegally denied his request to avoid working on the Sabbath, ruling that he did enough to show the board's decision making may have been discriminatory.
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July 02, 2024
The Seventh Circuit declined Tuesday to reinstate a Black physician's lawsuit alleging she was forced to quit because she was paid less than other doctors to do more work, saying she failed to show she was treated differently from white employees.
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July 02, 2024
A metal galvanization company can't cut several workers from a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it failed to address rampant racist language at its facility, a New York federal judge ruled, rejecting the employer's argument that the employees neglected the company's anti-discrimination policies.
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July 02, 2024
The D.C. Circuit revived a special agent's suit Tuesday alleging he lost a promotion in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for complaining he was denied job opportunities for being Asian American, finding the lower court overlooked details that supported his claims.
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July 02, 2024
Counsel for DLA Piper LLP told a Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday the firm has provided responsive information to a former associate who claims she was unlawfully fired while pregnant, adding it is confident her termination was lawful.
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July 02, 2024
A company that operates Wendy's restaurants reached a deal with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to end a suit claiming it shirked its legal responsibility to timely submit its workforce demographic data, a filing in Ohio federal court said.
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July 01, 2024
By ending its term with a stinging combination against federal agencies, the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative bloc left behind a bruised bureaucracy and a regulatory system that's now vulnerable to a barrage of incoming attacks.
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July 01, 2024
Two former University of California, Riverside professors were awarded a total of $6.1 million in damages by a jury that found they were retaliated against in violation of the California Whistleblower Protection Act after making official complaints about alleged misdeeds their supervisor was engaging in, including misuse of government funds.
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July 01, 2024
The recent elimination of a long-standing doctrine that directed judges to defer to federal agencies' interpretations of ambiguous statutory language gives potentially potent ammunition to opponents of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's regulations implementing the Pregnant Worker Fairness Act, attorneys say.
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July 01, 2024
Religious broadcasters and advocacy groups are urging the Federal Communications Commission to halt collection of workforce race and gender demographics at television and radio broadcasters while a challenge to a reinstated rule proceeds in the Fifth Circuit.
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July 01, 2024
The Nevada Supreme Court will not rehear a decision to send to arbitration former Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden's defamation lawsuit against the NFL, a three-member court panel ruled Monday.
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July 01, 2024
Eight young app developers have sued "Heartless" rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, his company and its former chief of staff, conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos, in California federal court, alleging they fostered a hostile and abusive working environment, subjecting them to "extreme racism," bullying and harassment without pay.
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July 01, 2024
A nurse working for a Northshore Health unit in Illinois should be permanently blocked from pursuing employment deprivation claims over her initial denial of a COVD-19 religious vaccine exemption, the health facility said, arguing she is using a state conscience law as a "sword" against COVID-19 protections.
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July 01, 2024
A former Louisiana State University football director asked the Fifth Circuit on Monday for a full-court review of its ruling that her bias suit does not plausibly show that school officials violated public records law by not turning over sexual harassment investigation records.
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July 01, 2024
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors and the American Civil Liberties Union filed dueling briefs in a board challenge to an ex-policy attorney's firing, with prosecutors claiming she was fired for speaking out about bad bosses and the group claiming she relentlessly smeared Black supervisors.
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July 01, 2024
The Eighth Circuit breathed new life Monday into a former manager's lawsuit alleging a Hardee's franchisee fired her because she has diabetes, saying a jury could sort out whether she was unlawfully fired after a diabetic episode that she claimed precluded her from calling in sick.
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July 01, 2024
An opera singer said he was improperly canned from his tenured professorship by the University of Michigan in 2020 after allegations surfaced that he and his husband raped a musician a decade earlier, arguing that he faced harsher punishments and biased proceedings because he is gay.
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July 01, 2024
AbbVie Inc. fired a regional sales director as a pretext to avoid paying him for stock options and because of retaliatory complaints by two women who had received poor performance reviews, according to a suit filed in Massachusetts state court.
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July 01, 2024
Amazon didn't have to give a former employee additional time off after gum disease surgery because she wasn't entitled to medical leave and didn't have a disability under federal law, a Florida federal jury found as it sided with the company.
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July 01, 2024
A Columbus, Ohio, call center will pay $23,000 to resolve an investigation that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission launched into allegations that the company refused to accommodate an employee with a disability and then placed her on unpaid leave.
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July 01, 2024
Legal challenges to federal regulations can be brought outside the normal statute of limitations if someone isn't adversely affected until after the six-year window of time to file suit, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday.
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June 28, 2024
By knocking down a powerful precedent that has towered over administrative law for 40 years, the U.S. Supreme Court's right wing Friday gave a crowning achievement to anti-agency attorneys. But for those attorneys, the achievement is merely a means to an end, and experts expect a litigation blitzkrieg to materialize quickly in the aftermath.
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June 28, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overrule a decades-old judicial deference doctrine may cause the "eternal fog of uncertainty" surrounding federal agency actions to dissipate and level the playing field in challenges of government policies, but lawyers warn it raises new questions over what rules courts must follow and how judges will implement them.
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June 28, 2024
California legislators in both the Senate and Assembly overwhelmingly backed big changes to California's Private Attorneys General Act, including an adjustment to how penalties are assessed to employers and awarded to employees, sending the package to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk.