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August 16, 2024
A Michigan state appeals court refused to upend a Detroit housing agency's defeat of a former property manager's allegation that it fired him without using a progressive discipline system established by his collective bargaining agreement, saying the worker failed to show that his former employer purposely misled the court.
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August 16, 2024
Texas and a conservative D.C. think tank urged a federal court to scrap the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's recently updated guidance on workplace harassment, arguing that the federal bias watchdog misinterpreted the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Bostock decision when crafting the guidelines.
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August 16, 2024
In this week's Off The Bench, a WNBA star accuses her former team of discrimination for trading her once she became pregnant, questions swirl around the revocation of a U.S. gymnast's Olympic medal, and a BigLaw investigation prompts the University of Notre Dame to suspend its men's swimming program.
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August 16, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission agreed to pay a Colorado appliance company $1,800 in attorney fees for the agency's delays in turning over a worker's communications with her doctor in a disability bias suit.
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August 16, 2024
The United Auto Workers asked an Ohio federal judge to toss a Black member's claim that the union insufficiently fought his discharge from Howmet Aerospace Inc. because of his race, saying the worker failed to show the union unfairly handled the firing grievance.
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August 16, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for potential final approval of a $3.125 million settlement in a wage and hour class action against Liberty Mutual. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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August 16, 2024
Employment firm Jackson Lewis PC has expanded its roster this week with the additions of two attorneys with combined experience of more than 30 years to its offices in the Western Pennsylvania and Kansas City areas.
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August 16, 2024
The opacity of workplace artificial intelligence tools poses a daunting challenge for plaintiff-side employment lawyers who think that technology causes discriminatory results. Here are four strategies that workers' attorneys can use to get traction.
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August 16, 2024
The First Circuit affirmed a lower court's grant of summary judgment for Bentley University in an employment discrimination lawsuit brought by a former program coordinator, but also took the opportunity to lower the bar for retaliation claims.
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August 16, 2024
A hog farm can't escape a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging it allowed a transgender worker to be harassed out of a job, the Illinois federal judge scolding the business Friday for attempting to delay the case by falsely asserting the complaint lacked detail.
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August 16, 2024
A New York City hotel and hospitality workers' union are scheduled to appear before a New York federal judge for the first time as part of the hotel's lawsuit seeking to end ongoing agreements the union struck with a previous owner.
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August 16, 2024
A court's upheaval of New Jersey's longstanding "county line" ballot layout for the Democratic primary fueled both sides of the lively political aisle this year, while the same federal judge also riled the state's pharmaceutical hotbed by ending two challenges to Medicare's ability to negotiate drug prices. Here, Law360 looks at some of the notable cases so far in New Jersey.
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August 15, 2024
A California federal judge refused to toss a freelance scriptwriter's lawsuit accusing CBS of repeatedly denying him a staff writer position for being a "white, heterosexual male," but said the suit could be resolved without a hearing.
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August 15, 2024
A Ninth Circuit judge asked Thursday how a church could be harmed by a Washington law requiring employee health plans to cover abortions, since none of its workers had ever actually sought one, while another judge asked if tossing the case would slam the door on religious objections.
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August 15, 2024
The growing use of artificial intelligence in hiring and other workplace decisions has the plaintiffs bar playing catch-up as attorneys try to track down workers who have been harmed by AI tools and figure out how and when the technology is being used. Here are the three biggest obstacles for plaintiffs lawyers who want to ensure AI doesn't discriminate.
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August 15, 2024
Caterpillar Inc. can't escape a proposed class action alleging it violated an Illinois genetic information privacy statute by asking job applicants about their family medical history, a federal judge ruled, rejecting the machinery manufacturer's assertion that it didn't intend to collect the data.
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August 15, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit agreed Thursday to a full-court rehearing of an appeal from Georgia county officials looking to overturn a deputy's win in her suit alleging a health plan coverage exclusion for gender-affirming surgery violated federal anti-discrimination law.
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August 15, 2024
Morelli Law Firm PLLC and its founding partner Benedict Morelli settled sexual assault allegations from an associate at its predecessor firm, Morelli Ratner PC, before she filed suit against fellow named partner David Ratner, according to a motion Ratner filed in New York state court Tuesday seeking a copy of the settlement.
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August 15, 2024
A pet supply company has agreed to hand over $340,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sexual harassment suit alleging it allowed two male workers to subject female colleagues to crude comments and inappropriate touching.
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August 15, 2024
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has again asked a Garden State trial court judge to dismiss a lawsuit claiming he conspired with top staffers to oust the state's former elections chief, arguing that as government officials, the defendants are all entitled to qualified immunity.
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August 15, 2024
The Office of the New York State Attorney General has submitted a brief urging the state's highest court to reverse a finding against an ethics commission that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo convinced a state court was unconstitutional.
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August 15, 2024
The Washington Nationals and a former scout accusing the team of firing him for seeking a religious exemption to a COVID-19 vaccine requirement have agreed to end a two-year legal fight, according to D.C. federal court documents filed Thursday.
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August 15, 2024
A train conductor urged the Third Circuit to reinstate his disability bias suit claiming he was unlawfully disqualified from his position because of his history of seizures, saying Norfolk Southern Railway Co. and a lower court ignored evidence that he could safely perform his job.
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August 15, 2024
Harvard University and a group of doctoral students in its anthropology program have reached a settlement in a sexual harassment lawsuit alleging the school ignored a now-retired professor's misconduct, according to a Wednesday federal court filing.
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August 14, 2024
A California judge said at a case management conference Wednesday that a certified class action by Black workers alleging Tesla allowed racial discrimination to run rampant will go to trial in 2025, noting the plaintiff sued in 2017 and "everybody, the plaintiffs and the defense, needs to have closure on these issues."