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April 01, 2024
A former teacher and the Ohio school district she accused of forcing her to resign after she refused to use the preferred names and pronouns of her transgender students each filed briefs urging a Buckeye State federal judge to grant them early wins.
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April 01, 2024
Amazon's stated commitments to disability inclusion are a sham, a California worker with cerebral palsy claimed in a proposed class action, saying the company gave him a warehouse gig despite his many warnings that he couldn't meet the job's physical demands.
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April 01, 2024
A California federal judge placed the final stamp of approval on an $18 million settlement that ends an age discrimination suit alleging tech company HP Inc. unlawfully pushed out hundreds of older workers under the guise of a workforce reduction plan.
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April 01, 2024
A New Jersey city's lawsuit demanding clarity over whether state or federal law governs off-duty pot use for cops could help cannabis and employment lawyers navigate a growing battle between workers' rights and workplace safety.
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March 29, 2024
A Utah attorney has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to determine whether allegedly retaliatory IRS summonses can be quashed, and two former pharmaceutical executives are challenging the constitutionality of their convictions for marketing the off-label use of a drug. Here, Law360 looks at recently filed petitions that you might've missed.
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March 29, 2024
The University of Akron defeated a lawsuit alleging it targeted two finance professors for layoffs during the pandemic because one is Black and one is Asian, with an Ohio federal judge ruling Friday that the academics relied on faulty statistical analysis to back up their claims.
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March 29, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit reinstated a discrimination suit against the U.S. Army by a Black speech pathologist who alleged her colleagues steered white patients away from her and that her supervisor treated her too harshly, ruling a reasonable jury could find that racism tainted the supervisor's decisions.
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March 29, 2024
A 2-year-old Supreme Court ruling disavowing the special rules judges apply to arbitration contracts was at the heart of a recent Sixth Circuit decision to keep an employment discrimination battle in court, a result experts said is a harbinger of the significant impact the justices' opinion will have.
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March 29, 2024
In the coming two weeks, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a pair of cases involving the ministerial exception. Here's a look at those cases and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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March 29, 2024
In the coming week, a New York federal judge will hear arguments over whether to issue sanctions against a clothing store for not responding to discovery requests in a lawsuit brought by a former sales associate who claims she was unlawfully denied overtime and minimum wage.
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March 29, 2024
A Pennsylvania man with more than two decades of experience in the pharmaceutical industry claims he was denied a job after testing positive for amphetamines, even though he notified the Garden State company that he was on medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, in violation of New Jersey's Law Against Discrimination.
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March 29, 2024
A Missouri federal judge declined to throw out harassment and retaliation claims from an Orthodox Jewish worker who claimed a university unlawfully fired her after her supervisor yanked her leave to observe the High Holidays, but the judge said she failed to link her termination to religious discrimination.
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March 28, 2024
UMG Recordings has asked a New York federal court to free it from a producer's suit claiming he was sexually assaulted and harassed while working on Sean 'Diddy' Combs' latest album, slamming the suit as riddled with "knowingly false allegations" that publicly smear the music company.
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March 28, 2024
A former New York electrical worker and union rep can't sue the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for firing him after a return-to-work drug test found evidence of marijuana use, as the union never raised the alarm about such drug tests before, a New York federal judge has ruled.
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March 28, 2024
An information technology staffing group agreed to pay $100,000 to resolve claims that its online job advertisements discouraged and excluded asylum-seekers and refugees from applying, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
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March 28, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday revived a lawsuit brought by a transgender correctional officer in Georgia, saying he faced a hostile work environment and that a lower court wrongly determined he didn't experience "severe or pervasive" misgendering harassment by colleagues and supervisors.
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March 28, 2024
A New York state appeals court on Thursday affirmed the survival of a former executive's claim that proper whistleblower policies were not in place at a Zionist nonprofit that he said he was illegally fired from after complaining about its president, but declined to revive his bias allegations.
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March 28, 2024
A New York federal judge said a lawsuit brought by 16 former workers accusing IBM Corp. of firing older employees to replace them with millennials can proceed despite them not filing the necessary presuit charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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March 28, 2024
A California federal judge indicated Thursday she'll likely deny Tesla's bids to toss or stay the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's allegations that the electric carmaker fostered rampant racism at its Fremont factory, saying ongoing state litigation doesn't preclude the EEOC's claims and comparing the fight to Rodney King litigation.
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March 28, 2024
An Illinois hog farm failed to step in when a worker exposed his genitals and made explicit sexual comments to a transgender female employee, prompting her to quit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a lawsuit filed Thursday.
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March 28, 2024
Florida State University and a former program coordinator have agreed to settle her lawsuit alleging FSU fired her for asking to take time off to care for her father during his cancer treatment, they told a federal court.
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March 28, 2024
A California state jury said the Los Angeles Police Department should pay a former officer nearly $11.6 million over allegations that it subjected him to unwarranted investigations because he's Samoan and transferred him out of a prestigious K-9 bomb detection unit when he complained.
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March 28, 2024
A former producer with Warner Bros. told a Houston federal court that he was forced to resign due to the company's "draconian policy" mandating COVID-19 vaccines for employees.
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March 28, 2024
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP gave preferential treatment to younger white co-workers of a Black patent prosecution specialist, including more overtime and better pay, according to a complaint filed Thursday in Washington, D.C., federal court.
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March 28, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court seemed inclined to preserve Americans' access to medication abortion at recent arguments in a case challenging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's authority, which experts said would stave off an increase in worker absences and accommodation requests. Here's a look at how the justices' ruling could affect the workplace.