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August 12, 2026
An insurer does not have to pay a tech company's $300,000 judgment in an employment action alleging a worker experienced discrimination and retaliation during her pregnancy, the First Circuit said Tuesday, ruling the company first received notice of the claim before the policy period.
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August 12, 2026
A tractor trailer manufacturer struck a $50,000 deal to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it wouldn't let a pregnant assembly-line worker transfer to a safer position, an agreement that would wrap up the EEOC's first-ever Pregnant Workers Fairness Act suit.
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August 11, 2026
Ogletree said Monday that fitness company Equinox owes nearly $1.4 million in fees and expenses for the firm's work representing it in an employment matter in Los Angeles, according to a complaint filed in California federal court.
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August 11, 2026
A group of mostly Republican state attorneys general backed a Georgia prosecutor's office, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a former aide's argument she wasn't covered by a Title VII exemption for the personal staff of elected officials.
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August 11, 2026
UPS has told a Colorado federal judge that the driver pursuing a proposed class action over paid-sick-leave violations can't win his bid for partial summary judgment because he isn't owed any money for sick leave, according to UPS's response brief to the driver's motion.
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August 11, 2026
A group of former Meta employees who claim they were included in a round of layoffs because an artificial intelligence tool and didn't factor their disability accommodations or protected leave into a productivity analysis cannot qualify for an injunction reinstating them to their jobs, Meta argued in California federal court.
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August 11, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has told the Ninth Circuit it should undo the dismissal of a fired Southwest Airlines worker's retaliation suit alleging he was sacked for complaining that a colleague made racist remarks, arguing the district court used the wrong legal standards to shutter his case.
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August 11, 2026
A senior vice president at Wells Fargo told a North Carolina federal judge he was forced out of his position following biased evaluations and comments from his supervisor about his age, disability and the race of his team members, in a new complaint filed Monday.
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August 11, 2026
The Eighth Circuit on Tuesday backed Union Pacific's defeat of a former conductor's lawsuit alleging he was benched for years after having a stroke despite his doctors' approval to keep working, finding the company's conclusion that he posed a safety risk wasn't unreasonable.
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August 11, 2026
CSX Transportation Inc. has agreed to settle a suit from three workers who claimed they were illegally suspended or fired after they were falsely accused of misusing medical leave to take holidays off, according to a filing Tuesday in Maryland federal court.
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August 11, 2026
An employment lawyer with OpenAI has rejoined Munger Tolles & Olson as of counsel in its Los Angeles office after a year with the tech company.
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August 11, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's proposal to scrap a longstanding data collection program faced pushback during a public hearing Tuesday, as advocates for both employers and workers challenged the agency's argument that the reports may spur discrimination against nonminorities.
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August 11, 2026
Vassar College has struck a $5 million deal to end a suit by a group of female professors who alleged that the institution systematically underpaid and under-promoted women, despite them performing as well as or better than their male peers, according to a New York federal court filing.
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August 10, 2026
The Ninth Circuit's rejection of a spa's religious objections to serving transgender customers is incompatible with several major precedents, according to a U.S. Supreme Court petition filed Monday in litigation that soared in prominence when dozens of circuit judges decried a salacious dissent.
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August 10, 2026
A California federal court rejected a bid Monday from Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc., or CREXi, for a stay in CoStar's copyright case while CREXi looks to undo the disqualification of its attorneys from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP.
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August 10, 2026
A Connecticut town has prevailed against a former police officer's discrimination claims tied to a training injury, comments by colleagues, a pension application and subsequent medical marijuana use, with a state judge issuing wins as a matter of law to the municipality and its officials on all four counts alleged.
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August 10, 2026
Companies that want to increase in-person attendance for their employees must navigate a legal landscape different from the one that existed before the COVID-19 pandemic normalized remote work, experts say. Here are four things that businesses that want to promote in-person or hybrid work need to consider.
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August 10, 2026
The Second Circuit reopened a former Roosevelt Island Operating Corp. CEO's lawsuit alleging she was publicly accused of racially and sexually inappropriate behavior after being fired for raising public safety risks, finding Monday that a lower court erroneously tossed her federal claim based on a state court's ruling.
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August 10, 2026
A former deputy in charge of a regional New Jersey public defender office has filed an age and race discrimination lawsuit, alleging she was demoted and received a pay cut at the direction of the state's top public defender because she refuses to retire.
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August 10, 2026
Power transmission belts manufacturer Gates Corp. unlawfully fired a regional health and safety manager after he escalated concerns about regulatory violations, environmental compliance and the disparate treatment of minority employees, according to a complaint filed in North Carolina federal court over the weekend.
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August 10, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit upheld a win Monday for a pipe fitters union in a lawsuit alleging it routinely passing over Black journeyman pipe fitters for work assignments in favor of white workers, finding the claims failed to show that the unions had established discriminatory referral practices.
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August 10, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Monday upheld a win for the University System of Georgia in a disability discrimination case brought by a former respiratory therapy student who alleged he was improperly found to be endangering patients' safety and given a failing grade as punishment.
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August 10, 2026
A Minneapolis public school district has beaten the U.S. Department of Justice's challenge to a program aimed at attracting Black male teachers, with a Michigan federal judge saying Monday that the discrimination lawsuit can't proceed without the teachers' union, which the government lacks the power to sue.
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August 10, 2026
The Eighth Circuit on Monday upheld a clinical research institute's defeat of a lawsuit from a former manager who said she was laid off because she's Native American, siding with the institute's assertion that she was let go for budgetary reasons because her position was funded with internal money.
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August 10, 2026
The Third Circuit declined Monday to reinstate a driver's suit claiming he was blocked from working on CBS film sets out of age bias and for complaining that Teamsters leaders were handing jobs to their friends, ruling that his case fell apart because the union didn't make hiring decisions.