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September 20, 2024
The Sixth Circuit revived two lawsuits Friday from Christian organizations challenging a Michigan civil rights law barring discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, saying they demonstrated a plausible fear of enforcement if they publicized their religious views.
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September 20, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has officially begun flexing its enforcement muscles on one of the nation's newest civil rights laws, and experts say employers need to get up to speed on the unique accommodation analysis required under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. Here are three takeaways from the EEOC's first PWFA lawsuit.
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September 20, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued a battery manufacturer and energy storage company Friday in Michigan federal court, claiming it fired an office worker after he fractured his wrist because he wasn't 100% healed, even though he said he could do his job.
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September 20, 2024
A recent U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission amicus brief arguing that a workplace vaccination mandate may have unlawfully disadvantaged Black workers highlights the agency's focus on seemingly impartial workplace policies that yield skewed results, experts said.
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September 20, 2024
An Arkansas hospital improperly stopped a male surgical technician from assisting with childbirth even though he was hired to do so, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a new lawsuit.
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September 20, 2024
Walmart has agreed to hand over $100,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit filed in Arizona federal court claiming it fired a cashier because she missed too many shifts because of her epilepsy.
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September 20, 2024
A Daytona Beach, Florida, seafood restaurant fired an assistant manager about a month after hiring her because she was 57 years old and it wanted to hire someone younger, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a federal court Friday.
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September 20, 2024
This week the Second Circuit will consider a janitorial company's challenge to a lower court order that allowed an arbitration award in a dispute over what a janitor alleged was the company's misclassification of janitors as independent contractors to become public. Here, Law360 explores this and another employment case on the docket in New York.
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September 20, 2024
A former Microsoft employee tasked with helping advance diversity and inclusion efforts has filed a discrimination suit in Washington state court accusing the tech giant of an "ongoing campaign of intimidation, discrimination, and retaliation" against its Black female employees.
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September 20, 2024
King & Spalding LLP is urging a Maryland federal judge to toss a discrimination suit filed by a straight white woman who says she was dissuaded from applying to a summer associate program open only to "diverse" applicants, arguing the student suffered no injury since she did not apply.
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September 20, 2024
A New York Philharmonic trumpeter accused of raping his colleague and an oboist accused of handing the woman a spiked drink can't prove that the orchestra sidelining them violated an arbitrator's ruling, the orchestra and the musicians' union told a New York federal judge, asking him to toss the musicians' suits.
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September 20, 2024
A New York federal judge has sent a former Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP associate's suit saying she was fired for protesting sexual harassment back to state court and denied the firm's motion to compel arbitration of the matter.
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September 20, 2024
The Seventh Circuit backed United Airlines' defeat of a former flight attendant's lawsuit claiming he was fired for taking time off to deal with his alcoholism, saying he couldn't overcome the airline's explanation that he was fired for harassing a colleague he used to date.
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September 20, 2024
An Arizona framing company reached a deal with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to resolve a federal court suit alleging it failed to file reports on its workforce demographic data as required under federal law.
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September 20, 2024
A California federal judge threw out several claims in a retired police lieutenant's lawsuit alleging the city of Los Angeles denied sick time and promotions to police officers who took military leave, although the parties have taken issue with the scope of the judge's order.
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September 19, 2024
A former George Mason University law professor can't stop the school or its Title IX coordinator from investigating sexual misconduct claims lodged against him, but he can pursue some of the claims in his suit over the university's handling of the sexual misconduct accusations, a Virginia federal judge ruled Thursday.
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September 19, 2024
A Maryland federal court approved a $350,000 settlement between an Amalgamated Transit Union affiliate and a former union employee, resolving the worker's overtime claim under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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September 19, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit upheld on Thursday a bank's win over a sex and age discrimination suit lodged by two female former employees, with the panel using the case as an opportunity to "clear up" what it characterized as tricky areas of anti-discrimination case law.
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September 19, 2024
Reality show contestants have hit an Amazon Studios unit and the maker of the MrBeast YouTube channel with a proposed labor class action in California court, alleging they "shamelessly" exploited "Beat Games" contestants while threatening their livelihoods and misrepresenting their odds at winning the new show's $5 million grand prize.
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September 19, 2024
The North Carolina Department of Justice agreed to settle a Black attorney's lawsuit alleging she was passed over for promotion in favor of a less qualified white man, according to court filings, just weeks after a federal judge refused to toss the case.
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September 19, 2024
A Washington federal judge has again tossed a lawsuit against Boeing over a love triangle that led a Boeing employee to murder his coworker, dismissing the case for good because the killing did not occur during working hours or at the workplace.
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September 19, 2024
The Fifth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a suit from three Black Louisiana police officers who claimed they suffered racist harassment and were fired or demoted after complaining that the city botched a use-of-force investigation, ruling they lacked proof of retaliation and the abuse they allegedly endured didn't qualify as severe.
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September 19, 2024
A former Ballard Spahr LLP legal assistant on Thursday agreed to drop a Pennsylvania civil rights lawsuit alleging that the firm fired her in retaliation for taking leave protected by the Family and Medical Leave Act in order to care for her husband, who was battling cancer.
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September 19, 2024
An Indiana-based staffing agency struck a deal to resolve allegations that accommodated clients' preferences for workers based on protected characteristics like race and sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said.
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September 19, 2024
Seventh Circuit judges considering a retaliation suit from a University of Illinois Chicago Law School professor who used a racist slur in an exam hypothetical asked Thursday if law schools should really be a "safe space" shielding students from the kind of "horrific facts" courts deal with regularly.