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July 12, 2024
An Ohio federal judge refused to throw out a Black truck driver's suit against the International United Auto Workers, saying he put forward enough information to support his allegation that the union did a poor job of representing him when his employer fired him for his social media posts.
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July 12, 2024
A high-profile sexual harassment case against the city of Boston and its former health director settled for $1 million earlier this month, according to a copy of the agreement released Friday.
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July 12, 2024
The Eighth Circuit declined Friday to overrule a lower court's order denying a former U.S. Army supply specialist a new trial in her retaliation suit alleging she was fired for reporting that she was sexually harassed, finding that she didn't follow court rules when filing her appeal.
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July 12, 2024
A former employee of Quantix SCS LLC is suing the company, Abbott Laboratories Inc. and two other drug testing companies, saying he was wrongly fired after testing positive for THC and the companies did not consider that it could have resulted from his use of legal CBD products.
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July 12, 2024
Traditional workplace bias training is not as effective as an evidence-based model that works to prevent discrimination through changes to practices such as hiring, performance evaluations and promotions, according to a new study.
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July 12, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a constitutional challenge by the federal government to Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors, while other appeals courts are weighing the constitutionality of states' and employers' restrictions on gender dysphoria treatment. Here are seven cases involving gender-affirming care access that attorneys will be tracking in the second half of the year.
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July 12, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit rejected a Black educator's bid to revive her retaliation suit claiming her school board declined to renew her contract because she complained that an assistant principal racially harassed her, ruling that she failed to overcome concerns about her habitual tardiness.
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July 12, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for the potential initial sign-off on a nearly $4 million settlement to resolve a proposed wage and hour class and collective action against language interpretation company Language Line Services Inc. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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July 12, 2024
The Colorado State Courts Administrator's Office said in a joint notice that it has settled a lawsuit in Denver District Court with two former workers who said they were laid off as part of a broader pattern of gender discrimination against female employees.
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July 11, 2024
A federal judge denied Florida's request Thursday to pause a court order blocking a state law that bans or restricts gender-affirming care for transgender minors and adults while it challenges the ruling at the Eleventh Circuit, finding the state hasn't shown it would be harmed by the law's stagnation.
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July 11, 2024
Lawsuits filed by job seekers following the enactment of Washington state's unique pay transparency law are lurching forward, and experts say the suits' journeys to the plaintiff-friendly venue of state court and a $3.8 million class action settlement highlight some key takeaways from this type of litigation.
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July 11, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court allowed an Idaho law banning gender-affirming care for minors to become effective, the Eleventh Circuit upheld a trial court win for a transgender public safety employee in a healthcare discrimination suit and a Florida federal judge blocked as unconstitutional a state law restricting gender-affirming care for minors and adults.
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July 11, 2024
Ninth Circuit judges signaled Thursday that they were likely to revive a doctor's case claiming he was wrongfully fired from his Washington State University residency for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccination, with two judges questioning if the school went far enough to accommodate his religious beliefs.
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July 11, 2024
Former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores implored the Second Circuit to keep his racial discrimination suit against the NFL out of arbitration Thursday, telling the court that the closed-door process is "highly oppressive" and tramples over federal law.
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July 11, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday urged the Eighth Circuit to affirm a ruling that Home Depot illegally pushed out a worker who refused to remove the letters "BLM" from their apron, saying federal labor law protected the worker's protest because it echoed other discrimination complaints.
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July 11, 2024
A Virginia health system told the Fourth Circuit to let its win stand in a former nurse's lawsuit claiming she was unlawfully fired for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine because of her Christian beliefs, saying the nurse raised only her personal misgivings, not religion, in her exemption request.
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July 11, 2024
A Washington federal judge won't let the U.S. Navy out of a suit from a former Marine alleging that he was discriminated against and terminated over his post-traumatic stress disorder, saying there is enough evidence that a fact-finder could determine his boss retaliated against him.
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July 11, 2024
The Seventh Circuit refused to upend a jury verdict in favor of Abbott Laboratories and a manager in a Black former financial analyst's lawsuit, saying he failed to show that discrimination was afoot when he was stripped of several job duties and fired while out on leave.
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July 11, 2024
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals fired a director four days after she requested a flexible work schedule to care for her disabled daughter and following her complaints that her boss verbally abused her for taking protected leave, according to a suit filed Thursday in New York federal court.
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July 11, 2024
A Philadelphia-based attorney has missed so many deadlines in a federal race bias lawsuit against a Penn State University branch campus that the senior circuit judge assigned to his case issued sanctions and a stern warning that a large caseload is no excuse on Thursday.
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July 11, 2024
A trucking company won't get a chance to retry a race discrimination lawsuit that ended in a $3.4 million verdict against it last year after a Georgia federal judge found Wednesday that the plaintiff's counsel's improper conduct at trial didn't prejudice the jury.
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July 10, 2024
Republican leaders of major congressional committees Wednesday demanded details from dozens of agencies on policies suddenly shrouded in uncertainty after U.S. Supreme Court conservatives overturned the so-called Chevron doctrine, which for 40 years gave regulators flexibility in rulemaking and advantages in related litigation.
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July 10, 2024
A former public defender awaiting a bench ruling on her sexual harassment claims against the federal judiciary said Wednesday that the judge deciding her case should note a recent ruling reprimanding an Alaska federal judge for his "sexualized relationship" with a clerk in which the Ninth Circuit Judicial Council determined that intent was irrelevant.
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July 10, 2024
UMB Financial Corp. fired an executive for requesting more time to recover from chemotherapy treatments, according to a suit filed in Colorado federal court, after she was made to work 12-hour days in preparation for her leave to complete the work she would miss while she was out.
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July 10, 2024
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Vice Chair Jocelyn Samuels said Wednesday that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in Muldrow v. St. Louis should not hinder companies' diversity and inclusion efforts, despite fears the justices' decision opens these initiatives up to more legal attacks.