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August 21, 2024
A former city of Bridgeport healthcare administrator says she learned via a one-page, hand-delivered letter at the close of business on April 1 that she was immediately losing her job, a move she says violated the 14th Amendment because she received neither a warning nor an opportunity for a hearing.
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August 21, 2024
A California federal judge scrapped a proposed class action Wednesday alleging Twitter targeted employees with disabilities for termination following Elon Musk's takeover of the business, but left the door open for the former worker behind the suit to revise his claims.
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August 20, 2024
A California federal judge said she can't oversee claims that Teamsters Local 150's process for nominating and electing officials is "rigged to crush dissent," but she can oversee a former official's claim that he was excluded from a slate of candidates as retaliation for critiquing a colleague, the judge ruled Tuesday.
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August 20, 2024
The Fifth Circuit backed the dismissal of a railway electrician's disability bias suit claiming Union Pacific Railroad Co. unreasonably pushed him out of a job after he likely experienced an off-duty seizure, ruling the business properly considered that a second, on-the-job seizure could be imminent.
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August 20, 2024
A Ninth Circuit panel overseeing an Asian American worker's push to revive her bias lawsuit agreed Tuesday that the U.S. Supreme Court's April decision in Muldrow v. St. Louis puts her claims under a new lens, but wrestled with who should determine the case's outcome.
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August 20, 2024
Kansas lawmakers approved a $50,000 settlement ending a former highway patrol worker's lawsuit alleging he was fired because he's transgender amid an investigation into whether he'd harassed a female colleague.
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August 20, 2024
A Wisconsin federal judge has removed three of the seven individual defendants named in a suit brought by an attorney challenging the Wisconsin Bar's diversity clerkship program after they argued they were not personally responsible for actions alleged in the suit, with the judge also cutting a claim for money damages.
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August 20, 2024
A Florida A&M University College of Law professor asked a federal court to maintain her discrimination suit because "context matters" in the case, and it shouldn't be decided on summary judgment, as the school suggested.
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August 20, 2024
The Ninth Circuit revived a suit Tuesday from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer who alleged his colleagues mocked his sexuality in a private Facebook group, saying the case needs another look following a recent ruling that off-duty social media posts can create a hostile work environment.
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August 20, 2024
The legal industry continues to see incremental gains for female lawyers in private practice in the U.S., according to a Law360 Pulse analysis, with women now representing 40.6% of all attorneys and 51% of all associates.
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August 20, 2024
The legal industry still has a long way to go before it can achieve gender parity at its upper levels. But these law firms are performing better than others in breaking the proverbial glass ceiling that prevents women from attaining leadership roles.
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August 20, 2024
BNSF Railway Co. urged the Fifth Circuit to reject a colorblind conductor's bid to revive his disability bias suit claiming he was illegally fired for failing a vision test, arguing that the former employee's impairment disqualified him for the job.
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August 20, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission won't go through with a one-day furlough of agency staff that it had been considering due to budget constraints, with EEOC Chair Charlotte Burrows saying Tuesday that the measure is no longer necessary.
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August 20, 2024
The city of Philadelphia, Independence Blue Cross and a firefighters union agreed to settle a transgender firefighter's suit claiming she was unlawfully denied coverage for facial feminization surgery, just weeks after a Pennsylvania federal judge refused to let the insurer out of the case.
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August 20, 2024
A New York federal judge refused to throw out a trainer's lawsuit alleging that a luxury gym failed to properly pay her and that its owner sexually harassed her, saying her entire case falls under an amendment to the Federal Arbitration Act mandating that sexual harassment claims remain in court.
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August 19, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice is urging a Texas federal judge to side with the administrative law judge overseeing the immigration bias investigation against SpaceX, saying the company is using its constitutional attack against the framework of the proceeding as a distraction.
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August 19, 2024
The city of Seattle has argued that a white ex-employee can't prevail in his discrimination claims over its workplace diversity programming, telling a Washington federal judge the worker was never disciplined or demoted despite his "increasingly aggressive and inappropriate attacks on coworkers" who supported the racial justice initiative.
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August 19, 2024
A New York state judge on Monday declined to dismiss an actress's claims against The Walt Disney Co., its subsidiary Miramax Film NY LLC and Creative Artists Agency LLC over an alleged sexual assault by disgraced film executive Harvey Weinstein.
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August 19, 2024
In a pair of dueling briefs, both the U.S. Air Force and a cadre of its airmen are sparring over whether the military's revocation of its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for service members spells the end for the airmen's suit challenging the mandate on religious freedom grounds.
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August 19, 2024
The Sixth Circuit on Monday upheld a $250,000 jury verdict finding that a Michigan county brought retaliatory use-of-force criminal charges against a sheriff's office sergeant for filing a previous lawsuit, ruling he put forward enough proof that the charges he was hit with may have been bogus.
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August 19, 2024
Facility management company ABM agreed to pay $52,000 to a deaf job applicant who said their job offer for a warehouse cleaner position was put on ice after they asked for an accommodation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Monday.
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August 19, 2024
A Tennessee federal judge refused to give three staffing companies a green light to appeal her decision that they must face a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming they favored Hispanic workers over Black ones.
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August 19, 2024
A Boston police commissioner who was fired over decades-old abuse allegations had plenty of chances to give his side of the story, a Massachusetts federal court said Monday in rejecting claims he was defamed and stigmatized by the city's ex-mayor.
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August 19, 2024
A new Illinois law upping the legal protections for job candidates and employees evaluated by artificial intelligence signals that workplaces will continue to be at the center of the state-led campaign to curb AI bias, experts said.
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August 19, 2024
A federal judge recommended dismissing a U.S. Department of Justice suit accusing a Georgia county of firing two Black workers who complained about a slur from a white colleague, faulting the DOJ for trying to "overcomplicate" the case.