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December 22, 2022
Hodgson Russ LLP said Wednesday that it had chosen six attorneys from its Buffalo office to become partners at the beginning of 2023.
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December 22, 2022
New York City Council member Lincoln Restler introduced legislation Wednesday that would stop employers from making workers sign contracts that shorten the statute of limitations to file claims and complaints of unlawful discriminatory practices, harassment or violence, and commence civil actions.
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December 22, 2022
A Colorado federal judge refused to hand the EEOC a pretrial win in a long-running Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit claiming a Denver-based trucking company's policies prevent people with disabilities from being hired or returning to work, saying a jury needs to sort out myriad factual disputes.
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December 22, 2022
A former Disney World employee filed a religious bias lawsuit in Florida federal court accusing the company of blowing off her request for an exemption to Disney's COVID-19 vaccination mandate and firing her when she refused to wear a mask at work.
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December 22, 2022
The U.S. women's national soccer team urged a California federal judge to reject former player Hope Solo's bid to ax the team's request for $6.6 million in attorney fees, saying the requested fee was reasonable and her objection should not fare any better than her previous complaints.
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December 22, 2022
Emojis are popping up more often in workplace discrimination and harassment cases, prompting some employment lawyers to advise their clients to ban their use altogether in the office.
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December 22, 2022
The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to attach a bill to a pending $1.7 trillion spending package that would require employers to offer the type of accommodations already mandated for disabled workers to pregnant employees.
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December 21, 2022
A California state court has sided with Wells Fargo in a former trader's suit alleging that the bank wrongfully sacked him because he planned to flag its purportedly problematic Foreign Exchange compensation program, ruling that the evidence shows Wells Fargo had "independent, legitimate reasons to terminate him."
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December 21, 2022
An ex-staffer for Palm Beach County, Florida's senior and veterans' services department accused the county on Wednesday of fostering a discriminatory work environment and firing her in retaliation for complaining about the abuse she and her co-workers received.
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December 21, 2022
A Kansas federal judge ruled Wednesday that a former host at a Wichita restaurant did enough to secure another job after she was fired, siding with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in its pregnancy bias suit against the eatery.
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December 21, 2022
A New York state court employee accused the court system Wednesday of conspiring to protect a judge she claims sexually assaulted and harassed her for years, adding claims under the Adult Survivors Act to her advancing federal civil rights lawsuit.
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December 21, 2022
An insurance company has agreed to pay $67,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging it unlawfully suspended a Black worker after she complained to the agency that she had faced race discrimination.
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December 21, 2022
Fox Rothschild LLP wrapped up a lawsuit Wednesday from a former aide who claimed the firm ignored her complaints that one of its then-associates sent her lewd text messages and tried to rape her.
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December 21, 2022
Law360 reviews seven of the highest-profile government contracts-related cases from 2022, including a circuit court decision calling into question a long-held principle of procurement law and another establishing jurisdiction for challenges of prototype deals.
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December 21, 2022
A former esthetician for Hershey accused the entertainment and resort company of refusing to accommodate her schedule so she could care for her son who suffered a seizure and wrongly interpreting her seeking jobs elsewhere as a resignation.
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December 21, 2022
2022 saw the nation's smallest federal court of appeals weigh in on thorny employment issues, a Black Lives Matter face mask lawsuit, and a novel criminal prosecution against a state court judge.
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December 21, 2022
A little over a year after an explosive November 2021 report spotlighting allegations of racism and misogyny by Robert Sarver led to a BigLaw investigation of the Phoenix Suns' owner, Sarver sold both the Suns and the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury this week. Here, Law360 breaks down the path that led to Sarver selling his teams for a record $4 billion.
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December 21, 2022
A New York City law firm told a federal judge Wednesday to toss a former receptionist's suit claiming she was fired after reporting to a founding partner that an associate had tried to rape her, arguing that she failed to show her accusation caused her termination.
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December 21, 2022
A former cake decorator asked the Second Circuit to revive her suit alleging Rich Products fired her for requesting sick leave when she had a suspected COVID-19 case in early 2020, arguing that due to the pandemic her illness should be reevaluated as sufficiently serious to afford her leave.
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December 21, 2022
New York became the latest state to mandate that employers disclose salary ranges in advertisements for jobs and promotion opportunities under a new law that Gov. Kathy Hochul signed Wednesday, following in the footsteps of Colorado, California and other states that have recently adopted similar requirements.
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December 20, 2022
Spirit Airlines urged a Florida federal judge to toss two flight attendants' lawsuit alleging its medical leave policy violates the Family and Medical Leave Act, saying the workers' argument is based on the faulty claim that the airline's leave policy is identical to one under a collective bargaining agreement.
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December 20, 2022
A public school teacher lost her appeal of a district court's decision dismissing her retaliation, defamation and First Amendment claims related to her union activities, the First Circuit ruled, saying the lower court did not err when it sided with a Massachusetts town and its school officials.
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December 20, 2022
Red Roof Inn will pay an employee $40,000 to resolve a suit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Ohio federal court alleging the company blocked an employee from a promotion because he is blind, according to a Tuesday filing.
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December 20, 2022
The Council of the District of Columbia unanimously passed a bill Tuesday that would expand employment protections for domestic workers, including anti-discrimination and fair pay protections.
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December 20, 2022
Raytheon Technologies Corp. agreed Tuesday to resolve a former program manager's suit claiming he was fired because of his age and his need to take time off after a cancer diagnosis, according to a filing in Indiana federal court.