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June 23, 2017
Military Heads Seek 6-Month Delay On Trans Admissions
Senior military officials will ask Defense Secretary Jim Mattis for a six-month delay on a lift of the Defense Department’s ban on admissions of transgender service members, according to media reports.
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June 23, 2017
4th Circ. Rules NFL Retirement Plan Wrongly Denied Benefits
The Fourth Circuit on Friday sided with former NFL linebacker Jesse Solomon, who is seeking higher disability benefits from the league's retirement plan for cognitive impairments resulting from head injuries, finding that the plan ignored evidence of when the player became disabled.
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June 23, 2017
Employer Takes FCRA Consumer Report Suit To High Court
A subsidiary of oilfield services giant Schlumberger Ltd. has filed a petition for a writ of certiorari asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review an appeals court decision that revived a suit over alleged violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, arguing that without real harm, the case didn’t have standing.
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June 23, 2017
NLRB Denied DC Circ. Rehearing In FedEx Driver Status Row
The D.C. Circuit on Friday refused to reconsider its reversal of a National Labor Relations Board finding on how FedEx drivers should be categorized, cementing its March decision that the workers were independent contractors by the agency’s own standards.
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June 23, 2017
Gay Bias Is Sex Discrimination, EEOC Tells 2nd Circ.
Responding to a request by the Second Circuit to weigh in on the case of a deceased skydiving instructor who claimed he was fired over his homosexuality, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Friday that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is prohibited by Title VII.
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