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July 24, 2026
In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for a final settlement approval hearing in a worker misclassification suit against Grubhub that went to the Ninth Circuit. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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July 23, 2026
The Second Circuit said Thursday that an ex-employee should get a second shot at his claim that a union benefit fund failed to accommodate his pulmonary embolism complications, stating the lower court needed to weigh disputes about whether his request to change service routes was reasonable.
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July 23, 2026
Meat processor Smithfield Foods shouldn't escape a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming it terminated a Georgia-based senior sales employee because she was almost 60, with a federal magistrate judge recommending that jurors decide whether the company included her in layoffs because of her age.
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July 23, 2026
The Colorado Court of Appeals held for the first time Thursday that two Colorado statutes meant to close gender pay gaps do not require workers to allege gender discrimination, partially reviving a former human services caseworker's retaliation case against the county department she had worked for.
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July 23, 2026
A Black forklift operator who claimed his employer denied him overtime work opportunities because of his race and in retaliation for filing discrimination complaints lost his appeal Thursday at the Sixth Circuit, which found that he failed to show his Arab American co-workers were truly comparable to him.
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July 23, 2026
A Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate must face a Black worker's lawsuit alleging the company abruptly fired her for ignoring an executive's instructions, a New York federal judge ruled, concluding that a jury could find she was treated worse than a white man who committed a more serious error.
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July 23, 2026
A New York federal judge ruled Thursday that a former Debevoise & Plimpton associate must arbitrate his disability discrimination and retaliation claims against the firm, finding that a broad arbitration provision in a confidential settlement agreement covering his earlier termination delegates questions about the scope of arbitration to the arbitrator.
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July 23, 2026
The University of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission struck a deal to end their battle over a subpoena seeking contact information of Jewish UPenn employees after the agency agreed to back away from enforcing it, the parties told the Third Circuit on Thursday.
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July 23, 2026
The National Federation of Federal Employees and a group of federal workers urged a California federal court to halt the secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture from sending "proselytizing" religious messages to agency employees by email, arguing the messages are unconstitutional and are causing irreparable harm.
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July 23, 2026
A recent public meeting that focused on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's plan to scrap a longtime workforce data collection program showcased sharp divisions among agency leaders about its broader direction and the morale of its staff. Here, Law360 looks at four takeaways.
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July 23, 2026
Nike should hand over $15 million to a former employee who said she was paid less than male colleagues and passed over for promotions despite exceeding performance expectations, a federal jury in Oregon said.
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July 23, 2026
The clock started ticking Thursday on a monthlong public comment period for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's proposal to erase 6-decade-old requirements that large employers submit annual snapshots of their workforce demographics.
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July 22, 2026
Two former DHL Supply Chain employees have urged a Texas federal judge to preserve their lawsuit alleging the company has a pervasive culture of racial discrimination against Black workers, saying summary judgment in favor of the company would be improper.
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July 22, 2026
A former public defender's discrimination and retaliation suit was dismissed with prejudice Wednesday after a Michigan federal judge found that she repeatedly ignored discovery orders, prejudiced the defendants and improperly sent a process server to an attorney's home on a Sunday.
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July 22, 2026
Google and a woman former engineering director who accused the company of discriminating against her because of her gender have reached a settlement, the parties told a New York federal judge Wednesday, months after the judge declined to throw out a jury's verdict in the woman's favor.
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July 22, 2026
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday named former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan board chair of the New York City Economic Development Corp. and Anthony E. Shorris, a partner at consulting giant McKinsey & Co., as its president.
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July 22, 2026
Nineteen states and the District of Columbia are urging a Maryland federal judge to vacate federal agencies' implementation of President Donald Trump's executive order requiring government contractors to agree that they won't engage in "racially discriminatory" diversity, equity and inclusion activities.
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July 22, 2026
The Sixth Circuit won't reopen a Black former Costco worker's lawsuit alleging he was fired for producing evidence to support a separate race discrimination case, concluding Wednesday he couldn't overcome Costco's explanation that he was terminated for recording a co-worker without permission and lying about being assaulted by a supervisor.
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July 22, 2026
DLA Piper urged an Illinois federal judge to toss a Palestinian attorney's suit claiming the firm revoked a job offer out of discrimination, arguing it rescinded the offer because she concealed allegations that she assaulted someone at a protest.
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July 22, 2026
Ex-NFL players who settled a suit over racially discriminatory assessments made by the league's disability and retirement plans are asking a Maryland federal judge for over $4 million in legal fees.
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July 22, 2026
Jackson Lewis PC announced the elevation of two office managers and longtime firm attorneys to co-leaders of the employment litigation group this week.
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July 22, 2026
An Alabama federal judge greenlighted a $2.6 million deal Wednesday to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit that accused a recycling plant of refusing to hire women for laborer positions.
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July 22, 2026
The Ninth Circuit upheld a Washington state agency's win in a suit alleging it unlawfully fired over a dozen employees rather than accommodate their religious objections to the COVID-19 vaccine, ruling they hadn't shown the agency was purposely hostile toward religion.
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July 21, 2026
A retired judge looking to hold the Illinois Supreme Court liable for canceling his temporary reinstatement over a pro-MAGA opinion column told the Seventh Circuit Monday that his case belongs in federal court, saying he has no unbiased state court forum because his claims "would inevitably reach defendants themselves."
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July 21, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board can transfer to the Eleventh Circuit an appeal by Anheuser-Busch challenging the board's decision finding that the brewing company violated federal labor law by trying to force a Black former employee to arbitrate his race bias claims, the Fifth Circuit has ruled.