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August 24, 2026
The U.S. Department of Agriculture urged a California federal court to toss a suit by federal workers and their labor union accusing the agency's secretary of sending "proselytizing" religious emails to employees, arguing the messages align with the "history and tradition" of public officials making references to religion.
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August 24, 2026
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security can't escape a lawsuit alleging it unlawfully nixed an applicant's job offer because her religious practice includes consuming the psychoactive tea ayahuasca, a Florida federal judge ruled Friday, rejecting the agency's assertion that the court can't review its hiring decisions on national security grounds.
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August 24, 2026
A former Disney child actress has sued the entertainment giant in California state court, alleging that nobody protected her while an adult employee twice her age plied her with alcohol and raped her during the filming of a Disney Channel Original Movie, "The Poof Point," when she was 14.
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August 24, 2026
A Texas federal judge stopped Southwest Airlines Co. from snooping through an employee's social media posts about religion or abortion after the employee won a religious bias suit, issuing a court order blocking the airline from using future posts for disciplinary action.
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August 24, 2026
The Seventh Circuit affirmed on Monday the dismissal of a Black worker's race and age bias suit claiming a drug manufacturer refused to promote him and picked a younger white candidate for a managerial role, ruling he hadn't shown bias infected the company's decision.
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August 24, 2026
A New Jersey personal injury firm says it should not be held responsible and sanctioned for the termination of arbitration proceedings for former employees, telling a state court that the American Arbitration Association had seemingly lost its check for a $6,550 payment.
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August 24, 2026
The Washington Post was ordered to rehire an opinion columnist it fired for social media posts she made in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, the columnist's union said Monday, after an arbitrator faulted the newspaper's "rushed" decision to let her go.
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August 24, 2026
A Tennessee federal judge closed a suit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urging a packaging manufacturer to respond to an agency subpoena stemming from a sexual harassment charge.
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August 21, 2026
The Ninth Circuit ruled Friday that a jury must decide workers' religious-discrimination claims against the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife, finding the lower court erred in concluding the agency accommodated the workers' religious-exemption requests from a COVID-19 vaccine mandate by offering them limited reassignment options.
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August 21, 2026
The Ninth Circuit's recent decision that a 2022 law barring mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment allegations shielded a former executive’s lawsuit may help workers keep a broader range of claims in court, but questions linger about the appellate ruling’s rationale. Here are three things to know about the divided opinion.
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August 21, 2026
A former user experience designer for GoDaddy claims the web services company falsely promised her a "principal" title when hiring her, then punished and ultimately ousted her for complaining when two men with less experience were given the high-ranking status, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in Washington federal court.
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August 21, 2026
The Trump administration is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Ninth Circuit decision requiring the federal government to reinstate research grants that were terminated due to presidential orders against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
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August 21, 2026
An open source software developer fired an engineer after he raised concerns about disability discrimination in the workplace, was denied accommodations for his attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and had his symptoms labeled as performance problems, according to a case removed to North Carolina federal court Thursday.
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August 21, 2026
A coalition of restaurant, retail and hotel industry groups has urged a New Jersey federal court to strike down a state law requiring businesses to pay a fine when their employees are enrolled in the state Medicaid program, arguing the statute conflicts with federal benefits law.
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August 21, 2026
RTX Corp.'s Pratt & Whitney aircraft unit prevailed a second time Friday against a female candidate's claim that she wasn't hired because of her gender, with a Connecticut appeals court affirming gender wasn't a motivating factor and that some of the woman's arguments rested on hearsay.
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August 21, 2026
The Fourth Circuit ruled Friday that a $22 million jury verdict in favor of a former Wells Fargo employee who said he was terminated for seeking remote work was almost $2.9 million too high, telling the ex-worker to choose between a reduced award or a new trial.
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August 21, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit refused to revive a lawsuit alleging the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives forced an employee with a heart condition to accept a demotion rather than let her take unpaid leave, ruling the agency wasn't required to supplement the paid time off she had available.
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August 21, 2026
This week, a New York federal judge will consider Target's bid to dismiss a proposed class action brought by warehouse employees who claim the company must compensate them for the time they spend walking to and from their departments before and after their shifts. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in the Empire State.
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August 21, 2026
In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit arguments in a challenge by unions and other groups to the federal government's mass layoffs of probationary employees. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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August 21, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Friday that the St. Louis Sheriff's Office has reached an agreement to resolve 13 race and age discrimination charges alleging it unlawfully fired a group of largely older white workers.
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August 20, 2026
The First Circuit freed an insurer from paying a tech company's judgment in a worker discrimination and retaliation suit, highlighting the importance of endorsements and the principles of interpreting them in light of the base policy.
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August 20, 2026
TikTok and its former head of global legal operations have been accused in a California state court lawsuit of harassment and discrimination based on race and sex by a former legal department employee who claims the executive subjected her and other nonwhite colleagues to an "unrelenting campaign of harassment."
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August 20, 2026
A Louisiana federal judge has slashed the damages awarded to two former in-house attorneys who won a retaliation verdict against their university employer over gender pay equity complaints, cutting each award from $750,000 to $280,000 while rejecting bids for a new trial or outright dismissal.
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August 20, 2026
The Fourth Circuit declined Thursday to revive a firefighter hopeful's suit claiming he was cut from a training academy out of age bias, after crediting evidence that he was actually let go because he struggled to perform core firefighting skills and became insubordinate in stressful situations.
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August 20, 2026
A Colorado federal judge trimmed but refused to completely toss a flight attendant's lawsuit claiming United Airlines failed to prevent a former pilot from stalking and distributing intimate images of her without her consent, saying she plausibly alleged the airline was slow to act after being contacted by the police.