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April 25, 2024
New York Knicks owner James Dolan asked a California federal judge to nix a massage therapist's claims alleging he helped disgraced media mogul Harvey Weinstein sexually assault her at a hotel in 2014, arguing the therapist doesn't plausibly allege Dolan knew she would be assaulted or that he encouraged it.
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April 25, 2024
A former diversity staffer at Atlanta's Morehouse School of Medicine alleged an array of workplace violations in a new lawsuit, claiming he was denied overtime pay for after-hours work and fired when he complained about harassment stemming from sexual entanglement among the school's executives.
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April 25, 2024
An Illinois federal judge has warned a proposed class of Chicago employees that further discovery delays in their suit alleging a city wellness program intentionally discriminated against them on the basis of their genetic information could result in the court barring witnesses' testimony from the case.
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April 25, 2024
A hospitality company will pay $150,000 to resolve a lawsuit from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accusing it of unlawfully firing an employee right after it learned she had a miscarriage, according to a filing Thursday in Maryland federal court.
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April 25, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told the Eleventh Circuit that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision bolsters an athletic trainer's bid to revive her lawsuit alleging she was transferred away from a high school because male coaches didn't want to work with a woman.
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April 25, 2024
The Second Circuit upheld the dismissal of an Equinox trainer's bias suit claiming she was fired due to her age, ruling Thursday she couldn't overcome the luxury fitness chain's position that she was sacked for threatening a younger colleague while using vulgar language.
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April 25, 2024
The former World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. legal staffer who accused founder Vince McMahon of sexually abusing and trafficking her is fighting his bid to arbitrate the explosive lawsuit, arguing that he used a recent motion to mount a "vicious" and untrue attack on her character.
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April 25, 2024
Pharmaceutical giant Novartis must face a former sales representative's lawsuit alleging her salary was over $20,000 less than a male colleague pitching the same drug, a Colorado federal judge ruled, saying it's unclear whether their responsibilities were distinct enough to explain the difference.
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April 25, 2024
New York recently became the first state in the U.S. to require employers to offer paid sick time for pregnant workers to go to the doctor, and experts said that while it shouldn't be a big adjustment for employers, getting the word out about the new requirement is crucial.
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April 25, 2024
A group of 17 Republican state attorneys general hit the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission with a lawsuit Thursday over the agency's recently finalized Pregnant Workers Fairness Act regulations, saying the EEOC's stance that the PWFA encompasses abortion-related workplace accommodations is unconstitutional.
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April 25, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged the Third Circuit to reinstate a former manager's lawsuit accusing a glass company of firing him because he refused to fire his plant's only two Black workers, saying a jury should hear the dispute.
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April 25, 2024
A former assistant federal defender wants to make certain #MeToo evidence public following the trial in a case accusing the judiciary of botching its probe into her own sexual harassment complaint, saying the contents of similar allegations concerning the Federal Defender's Office have already been publicly revealed.
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April 25, 2024
Marshall Dennehey PC has added an employment law and trial attorney to its Mount Laurel, New Jersey, roster who came aboard from Flahive Mueller LLC.
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April 25, 2024
A former cellphone retailer owes nearly $108,000 in a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging a teenage employee was sexually assaulted by an older male manager, a California federal judge said, adopting a recommendation that the company be penalized for neglecting the suit.
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April 25, 2024
Workday Inc. urged a California federal judge to reject the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's bid to file an "inappropriately partisan" amicus brief in support of a Black job hopeful's suit claiming the business uses biased algorithms to disqualify applicants.
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April 25, 2024
A real estate company gave a Black manager more than twice as much work as his white colleague, paid him less and then fired him because he was "lazy," the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a suit filed in Georgia federal court.
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April 25, 2024
Harvey Weinstein seems poised to go to trial again in New York and testify in his own defense after the state's highest court overturned the movie mogul's rape conviction Thursday in a contentious, split opinion that found his first jury proceeding was unfair.
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April 24, 2024
Whole Foods hasn't yet proven that its firing of a worker who wore a Black Lives Matter mask to work wasn't retaliatory, the First Circuit said in an opinion unsealed Wednesday, ruling that there is a "genuine dispute" as to whether she was terminated for protected conduct.
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April 24, 2024
Major League Baseball fired a minor league umpire who accused a female colleague of bullying him and using homophobic slurs to avoid disrupting its goal of recruiting more women to work for the league, according to a complaint filed Wednesday in New York federal court.
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April 24, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's recent lawsuit challenging convenience chain Sheetz's use of criminal background checks aligns with the agency's longstanding take on anti-discrimination law, but is unique in its emphasis on job candidates needing to have a say in the hiring process, experts said.
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April 24, 2024
The Second Circuit refused Wednesday to revive a former worker's claims that her company president sexually harassed her by inviting her to see an apartment and retaliated against her when she rejected him, saying it's unclear from her suit whether he made a pass at her.
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April 24, 2024
McKesson Corp. reached an agreement with a former sales vice president to end her lawsuit accusing the drug distributor of firing her because her Christian beliefs barred her from getting the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a filing in North Carolina federal court.
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April 24, 2024
A Las Vegas hotel and casino agreed to pay $720,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it forced out employees who requested accommodations for their disabilities, according to a filing in Nevada federal court.
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April 24, 2024
The Fourth Circuit on Wednesday reinstated a former information technology company worker's lawsuit alleging she was unlawfully fired and replaced by someone nearly 30 years her junior, saying a trial court held her to too high a standard when it threw out her case.
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April 24, 2024
A New York restaurant and brewery refused to give shifts to a worker with cancer and another who suffered a seizure even though they were medically cleared to work, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged Wednesday.