December 19, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this year that discrimination plaintiffs in majority groups shouldn't be held to a heightened legal standard, while judges knocked down parts of Biden-era guidance and regulations from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Here, Law360 looks back at five of the biggest workplace discrimination decisions of 2025.
August 12, 2025
The Sixth Circuit recently rejected decades-old U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidelines and made it tougher for workers to successfully sue employers over harassment by customers, in a ruling that experts said showed the influence of last year's Loper Bright opinion from the nation's highest court.
August 11, 2025
An employer can only be held liable for a customer's harassment of an employee if the company intended for the misconduct to happen, the Sixth Circuit ruled, a strict stance that breaks with long-standing U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidelines and other circuit case law.