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June 23, 2026
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr has told Congress that tanking diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the telecom industry is not only justified but also a policy where Americans find more "common ground" than many lawmakers realize.
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June 23, 2026
The Sixth Circuit refused Tuesday to upend a $205,000 verdict in favor of a former Michigan Technological University accounting professor who said she was given a lower raise because she took maternity leave, saying a reasonable jury could conclude the dean improperly considered her pregnancy.
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June 23, 2026
The Fifth Circuit revived part of a Black nurse's discrimination suit Tuesday after finding a lower court was too quick to nix claims that she faced racist harassment on the job, highlighting evidence that she faced frequent racially disparaging remarks from her fellow nurses.
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June 23, 2026
A former senior clinical trial manager at BioNTech US Inc. told a North Carolina federal court Monday that she was wrongfully fired after complaining to higher-ups about an "epidemic of safety issues and protocol deviations" in clinical trials.
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June 23, 2026
A former Detroit police officer failed to get his bias, retaliation and hostile work environment suit revived, as a Michigan appeals court found he had not shown that his firing was tied to his Nigerian national origin, race or sex.
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June 23, 2026
New York state and the U.S. Department of Justice have filed dueling lawsuits over the state's new laws banning federal law enforcement officers from wearing face masks and seeking to rein in immigration enforcement in the Empire State.
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June 23, 2026
The Second Circuit declined Tuesday to revive an Avangrid Management Co. worker's suit claiming the utility business wouldn't promote her because of her age, ruling she lacked evidence that hiring managers knew how old she was when deciding what candidate was the best fit.
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June 23, 2026
The ongoing proliferation of state and local efforts to regulate artificial intelligence technology in the workplace isn't likely to let up, requiring employers to stay on top of an expanding patchwork of compliance obligations, the Society for Human Resource Management's chief administrative officer told Law360 in an exclusive interview.
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June 23, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit upheld the U.S. Postal Service's win over a white former Georgia postmaster's lawsuit alleging she was suspended for complaining that a Black mail carrier had threatened her, finding the bulk of her claims were filed too late.
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June 23, 2026
The New York City Department of Education owes a former employee nearly $2 million in damages, a New York federal jury concluded, after crediting her disability discrimination claims that she was blocked from attending physical therapy appointments to treat injuries caused by a violent parent.
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June 23, 2026
A federal judge has tossed a former cancer physician's federal equal pay claim against a cancer center in Buffalo, New York, accepting a magistrate judge's recommendation that she failed to show male comparators performed substantially equal work.
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June 22, 2026
Medical supplies giant Thermo Fisher Scientific pressed a Ninth Circuit panel Monday to agree that the company's repeated emails about litigation waivers should send an ex-employee's proposed class action to arbitration, but the judges repeatedly questioned why no one simply asked if the worker saw the emails.
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June 22, 2026
Workday can't cut California law claims from a proposed class action alleging its artificial intelligence tools discriminated against job applicants, as a federal judge ruled Monday that the company's Golden State headquarters provided a solid enough foundation for the state-based allegations.
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June 22, 2026
The ex-CEO of Sound Federal Credit Union asked a Connecticut state judge on Monday to dismiss portions of the credit union's two counterclaims asking him to return $80,000 for services he didn't perform because he was fired, saying it was not the correct party to bring such counterclaims.
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June 22, 2026
Two men who served as fire chief in the city of High Point, North Carolina, must face a firefighter's claims that they retaliated against him for speaking up about workplace issues in his capacity as union president, a North Carolina federal judge ruled, denying the men's motion for summary judgment.
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June 22, 2026
Uber Technologies Inc. executives and board directors have fostered a culture of noncompliance and lax safety that has exposed the ride-hailing giant to thousands of sexual harassment and disability discrimination lawsuits, according to a new shareholder derivative suit in California federal court Monday.
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June 22, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor hit a worker with poor performance reviews and denied him pay bumps after he sought disability accommodations and complained that his co-worker fiancée faced sex harassment and race bias on the job, according to a new federal lawsuit.
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June 22, 2026
A former New Jersey state judge who alleged that court administrators discriminated against her because of her upscale clothing and accessories has settled her federal civil rights lawsuit against court officials.
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June 22, 2026
The Hunterdon County Prosecutor's Office improperly shared a video of a meeting with its investigators about a now-suspended police officer's gender discrimination and internal affairs complaints against her department, according to a lawsuit filed in New Jersey state court.
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June 22, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission defeated a supervisor's lawsuit alleging her performance rating was unlawfully lowered because she refused to alter evaluations of other workers and complained about a district director, with a Florida federal judge finding her actions weren't protected by civil rights law.
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June 22, 2026
The Second Circuit declined Monday to revive a former Long Island city attorney's retaliation and sex bias suit claiming a judge sabotaged her career after she declined to support his reelection bid, ruling a lower court was right to toss the case because she waited too long to serve the judge.
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June 22, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to look into whether Major League Baseball violated civil rights law by giving verbal warnings to three players who wrote Bible verses on their hats to protest Pride Night.
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June 22, 2026
An electric vehicle charging station company and a former employee have agreed to end his religious discrimination suit filed in Georgia federal court claiming the business fired him for leaving work early so that he could observe the Jewish Sabbath.
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June 18, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday nixed a panel's recent ruling that the First Amendment shields a Christian ministry's practice of rejecting gay job applicants, granting Washington state's bid for a full-court rehearing while drawing protest from one appellate judge that the court has "relegated religious liberty to a second-class right."
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June 18, 2026
Kaiser Permanente racially discriminated against an Asian Indian senior IT consultant and terminated him for raising concerns of disparate treatment, the former employee alleged in Colorado federal court.