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May 21, 2024
A North Carolina federal judge shut down the state justice department's bid to stop an attorney from calling witnesses and offering exhibits in her discrimination trial, according to a docket order that appears to give the plaintiff more time to prepare.
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May 21, 2024
The Texas attorney general requested Tuesday that a federal judge do away with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's enforcement guidance over gender identity and Title VII, arguing that the agency must be stopped from requiring employers' compliance with pronoun and bathroom accommodations.
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May 21, 2024
A Colorado federal judge refused to dismiss an age bias suit brought against Major League Baseball by a group of 40-and-older scouts and instead transferred the case to New York, saying he was using his discretionary authority because most defendants have no ties to his district.
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May 21, 2024
New York's highest court on Tuesday upheld a state law requiring employee health plans to cover medically necessary abortions, finding a 2021 U.S. Supreme Court decision didn't change the state court's determination that an exemption process in the law was constitutional.
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May 21, 2024
The Sixth Circuit on Tuesday backed General Motors' defeat of an engineer's lawsuit claiming he was harassed and transferred to less lucrative jobs because he's over 50, ruling he failed to show that a supervisor's sporadic comments created a hostile work environment.
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May 21, 2024
Several food companies will pay $245,000 to resolve a lawsuit from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging a predecessor company's executive harassed employees with crude comments and unwanted touching and then fired workers who complained about it, a filing in California federal court said.
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May 21, 2024
The Seventh Circuit appeared reluctant Tuesday to revive a former Honeywell engineer's suit claiming he was unlawfully fired after declining to watch a training film he said discriminated against white people, with judges questioning how the ex-worker could prevail if he never saw the video.
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May 21, 2024
Heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc. has agreed to pay $800,000 to resolve U.S. Department of Labor allegations that it refused to hire qualified Black applicants for welding positions at an Illinois facility, the agency said Tuesday.
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May 21, 2024
A Puerto Rico federal jury handed a $200,000 win to a nurse in her suit accusing a government agency of standing by as a co-worker threatened to stab her and fabricated complaints against her after she alleged the colleague's friend sexually harassed her.
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May 21, 2024
A conservative nonprofit on Tuesday hit the American Bar Association with a Title VI complaint, claiming a handful of "nefarious" ABA-led programs meant to connect minority law school students with judges are "racially discriminatory."
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May 21, 2024
The co-chair of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP's employment advice and counseling practice has joined Littler Mendelson PC's Providence, Rhode Island, office, the firm announced.
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May 21, 2024
The 400 largest law firms by headcount in the U.S. grew more slowly in 2023 than in the previous two years, while Kirkland & Ellis LLP surpassed the 3,000-attorney threshold, according to the latest Law360 ranking.
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May 21, 2024
The legal market expanded more tentatively in 2023 than in previous years amid a slowdown in demand for legal services, especially in transactions, an area that has been sluggish but is expected to quicken in the near future.
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May 21, 2024
Two female former human resources workers for a medical management company and a podiatrist center told a Georgia federal court they had agreed to drop their lawsuit accusing their ex-employers of discriminating against them based on gender, reclassifying them as hourly and firing them for complaining.
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May 21, 2024
The Third Circuit reopened a class action Tuesday accusing American Airlines of unlawfully denying pilots pay for short military assignments while compensating employees for jury duty and bereavement leave, ruling a trial is needed to determine whether time off for military service is fungible with paid absences.
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May 20, 2024
A Los Angeles judge on Monday granted AMC's request to arbitrate claims brought by a television producer who says he was sexually assaulted by "Hannibal" creator Bryan Fuller while working on a docuseries for the cable channel and also stayed claims against Fuller and all defendants.
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May 20, 2024
Colorado's governor has approved the nation's first framework to clamp down on algorithmic discrimination in certain artificial intelligence technologies, although he expressed several "reservations" about the measure that he urged the Legislature to address before the law takes effect in 2026.
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May 20, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged an Arkansas federal judge to reject a bid by 17 Republican state attorneys general to block recently finalized regulations that guide the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, arguing that concerns about its abortion accommodations are merely hypothetical.
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May 20, 2024
A pair of former Jersey City, New Jersey, cops who sued city officials alleging they were wrongfully terminated for their off-duty use of regulated cannabis have asserted that the city improperly moved the matter to federal court and that the case belongs under state jurisdiction.
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May 20, 2024
Tesla must face a class action by scores of Black workers accusing it of a widespread culture of racial discrimination at its factory in Fremont, California, a state trial court judge has ruled.
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May 20, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asked the Sixth Circuit to upend State Farm's win in a former worker's suit, saying there's evidence she was fired in retaliation for helping a disabled colleague lodge a complaint against her supervisor because he abruptly yanked her accommodation.
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May 20, 2024
A New York federal judge said Boar's Head can't get reconsideration of an order greenlighting a collective in a late pay suit because the workers in the case supported their claims, but granted the deli meat and cheese company's request to rework the collective definition.
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May 20, 2024
A Michigan federal judge on Monday issued a brief order dismissing an age bias lawsuit brought by a former Detroit Tigers employee against the MLB team, saying the parties informed the court they have resolved all claims just a month before trial was set to begin.
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May 20, 2024
The Second Circuit reopened a Black former office clerk's lawsuit alleging her supervisor at a western New York transit authority harassed her by disparaging George Floyd just weeks after his death, finding a trial court should've given her more information about conducting discovery before tossing the case.
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May 20, 2024
The Third Circuit declined to reinstate a lawsuit an ex-worker brought against a Pennsylvania museum accusing it of firing him after he asked for accommodations to treat a back injury he suffered at work, saying his allegations aren't strong enough to sustain a retaliation case.