July 07, 2026
A Tennessee federal judge threw out an ex-worker's suit claiming a Coca-Cola bottling company failed to hold her job open after she took several months of medical leave, ruling that once she exhausted her 12-week leave allotment, the business wasn't obligated to return her to her old job.
October 30, 2024
An ousted Christian fire chief appealing his loss in a religious bias suit has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to ditch its longstanding McDonnell Douglas test, and a recent Maryland Supreme Court decision that narrowed a bias law exemption for religious employers is being challenged as unconstitutional. Here, Law360 looks at four employment litigation developments that flew under the radar this month.