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July 02, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asked the Seventh Circuit on Thursday to correct a lower court's opinion tossing a Taiwanese doctor's race bias suit claiming he was bullied and forced to quit, stating it used outdated case law to find he didn't face any adverse employment actions.
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July 02, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's stark ideological divisions were on full display this term, particularly as it issued long-awaited rulings in the last few days of June. Here, Law360 dives into the numbers behind this court term.
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July 02, 2026
A.Y. Strauss LLC announced a new chair of labor and employment law on Thursday with the addition of an employment litigator who was head of employment at Lindabury McCormick Estabrook & Cooper PC.
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July 02, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday upheld a win for Miami in a Black police officer's race discrimination lawsuit, finding no evidence her skin color played a role in the city's decision to demote, transfer and suspend her due to problems in her internal investigatory work.
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July 02, 2026
Seyfarth Shaw has bolstered its labor and employment group with a veteran litigator from Fox Rothschild, bringing on an attorney who plans to utilize his platform at Seyfarth to continue defending employers in expansive bias and wage and hour class actions.
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July 02, 2026
A Michigan appellate panel affirmed a lower court's dismissal of a former Dow Corning employee's defamation suit against former state Senate candidate Christian Velasquez and his campaign committee, ruling that public statements made by Velasquez in response to an opposing candidate's attacks were not about the plaintiff.
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July 02, 2026
A New York federal judge has ordered attorneys litigating former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores' proposed racial discrimination class action against the NFL to hold an in-person meeting to resolve numerous discovery disputes that are bogging down the case.
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July 02, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged the Ninth Circuit to affirm a $27 million disability bias verdict for an ex-Union Pacific Railroad employee who lost his job after dislocating his shoulder, arguing that the company failed to show he was enough of a safety risk to justify his removal.
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July 01, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling this week that presidents enjoy broad power to remove officials at independent executive branch agencies likely portends more frequent and sharper policy oscillation at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission when new administrations take over, attorneys say.
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July 01, 2026
A Washington state task force made a series of recommendations to lawmakers Wednesday for promoting responsible use of artificial intelligence while declining to endorse proposed guardrails on data center development and the use of generative AI by state agencies, according to a final report.
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July 01, 2026
A Georgia school district and a teacher told a federal court Wednesday that they have resolved the teacher's suit alleging she was suspended for calling conservative activist Charlie Kirk a "fascist" on her private Facebook page after he was killed.
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July 01, 2026
Senior employees at a home builder routinely talked about how they equated pregnancy with a lack of professional commitment before firing a pregnant worker, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Wednesday.
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July 02, 2026
A New Jersey state judge denied without prejudice the State Ethics Commission's bid to dismiss a former University Hospital executive's discrimination suit and rejected her cross‑motion for partial summary judgment, but reserved decision on the hospital's motion to toss portions of the case.
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July 01, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released Wednesday a draft of a new four-year strategic plan for public comment, unveiling a blueprint for the agency's long-term priorities amid a busy week of litigation and policymaking.
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July 01, 2026
A Michigan federal judge labeled a former General Motors employee a "vexatious litigator" in an opinion issued Tuesday after she filed "five separate lawsuits raising the same claims" against the same defendants and dismissed her workplace bias and harassment suit against General Motors Flint Assembly and UAW Local 598.
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July 01, 2026
Littler Mendelson PC, which primarily deals in employment and labor law practice representing management, announced on Tuesday the hiring of a former Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP attorney as a shareholder in its Walnut Creek, California, office.
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July 01, 2026
A Hawaii federal judge has partially tossed a lawsuit accusing Hawaiian Airlines Inc. of refusing to accommodate employees' requests for religious and medical exemptions from its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, ruling that the court lacks jurisdiction over the claims since they cannot be resolved without interpreting the airline's collective bargaining agreement.
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July 01, 2026
Auto glass repair company Safelite violated federal law by refusing to hire women as technicians even when they scored higher than their male counterparts on required job assessments, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a suit.
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July 01, 2026
A payroll software company illegally fired an employee who asked for accommodations after co-workers' food triggered her severe allergy to onions, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a suit.
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July 01, 2026
One of the owners of a Florida pizza chain made vulgar comments about female workers while the company ignored their complaints, forcing one employee to quit, according to a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit.
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June 30, 2026
Actress Blake Lively says she racked up more than $8 million in legal fees and expenses in her battle with her "It Ends With Us" costar Justin Baldoni, litigation she characterized as a "holy war" waged by Baldoni and his studio's financier, whom she accused of "scorched-earth" tactics designed to drain her resources.
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June 30, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued a Piggly Wiggly operator in Georgia federal court on Tuesday, accusing the grocer of denying a religious accommodation to a deli worker that would have allowed her to observe Sunday Sabbath.
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June 30, 2026
A Washington federal judge Monday dealt a blow to President Donald Trump's efforts to restrict federal funds going to cities and counties that promote diversity programming and "gender ideology," ordering the administration to temporarily halt enforcement of two executive orders in several U.S. cities and counties.
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June 30, 2026
An employment lawsuit argued Tuesday in Pittsburgh could raise questions of a joint employer's obligation to investigate and oppose alleged racial bias by another employer, but a federal judge said the claims were obscured by "a bunch of fog" and sharply challenged the plaintiff's lawyer to state the case more clearly.
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June 30, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a pair of national origin discrimination suits Tuesday as part of a wave of new enforcement actions, accusing a supermarket chain of illegally favoring Chinese workers and alleging that a group of commercial cleaning providers refused to hire American workers.