January 01, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is battling Tesla in a suit alleging rampant race discrimination at a California factory, state regulators are pressing a caste bias case against Cisco, and the Ninth Circuit is considering reviving lawsuits against Uber and Meta. Here, Law360 looks at five discrimination cases in California that employment lawyers should follow in 2024.
October 04, 2023
A Ninth Circuit panel pressed Facebook parent Meta on Wednesday on whether a Reconstruction-era civil rights statute prohibits discrimination against U.S. citizens, as it considered reviving an unsuccessful job applicant's suit accusing Meta of unlawfully favoring visa holders in hiring.
October 02, 2023
The Ninth Circuit will oversee arguments in a case accusing Meta of bias against U.S. citizens, while the Fourth Circuit will hear an unsuccessful job applicant's retaliation case against the Drug Enforcement Administration and a former executive's push to reinstate her age discrimination case. Here, Law360 previews three upcoming argument sessions that discrimination lawyers should have on their radar.
September 29, 2023
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for oral arguments regarding standing to bring nonindividual claims under California's Private Attorneys General Act in the wake of U.S. and California high court decisions. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in the state.
May 24, 2023
A naturalized U.S. citizen challenging Meta's alleged practice of hiring visa-dependent employees over American workers chided the company's contention that a civil rights law didn't apply to citizenship discrimination, saying the plain text of the statute makes clear it does.
April 24, 2023
Facebook's parent company urged the Ninth Circuit not to revive a class action accusing it of unlawfully hiring visa holders over U.S. citizens, saying a California court rightly ruled that citizens weren't a protected class under a civil rights law.