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March 25, 2024
A New Jersey appeals court on Monday undid an order compelling arbitration in a pain management physician's suit alleging a fellow doctor sexually assaulted her, finding the arbitration agreement in her employment contract ambiguous and unenforceable.
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March 25, 2024
A Texas federal judge has scrapped a lawsuit challenging an Obama-era rule prohibiting recipients of adoption-related federal funding from discriminating based on gender and sexual orientation, writing that the federal government's decision not to enforce the regulation moots the case.
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March 25, 2024
A New York federal judge said a former Boar's Head employee showed that other workers are similarly situated in his late pay suit, granting the worker's bid for conditional certification of a collective.
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March 25, 2024
The Second Circuit refused Monday to revive a counselor's suit alleging a domestic violence shelter cut her work hours after she asked not to be placed on overnight shifts because of her bipolar disorder, finding that around-the-clock availability was critical to the job.
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March 25, 2024
A Palestinian Arab-American journalist was fired from CBS News Detroit after he complained that the station wasn't providing equal coverage of Palestinian-American perspectives on the Israel-Hamas war, according to a lawsuit he filed in Michigan federal court.
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March 25, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice has defended its investigation into allegations that SpaceX refused to hire asylum-seekers and refugees, telling a Texas federal judge that its authority stems from a constitutionally sound provision of federal immigration law barring workplace discrimination based on citizenship status.
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March 25, 2024
A Texas federal judge said Expedia should face claims from a white male applicant who said he was turned down for a job in favor of a more "diverse candidate," but recommended dropping a company executive from the suit.
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March 25, 2024
Lazard Asset Management defeated a former senior vice president's suit alleging he was fired because of his Indian and Hindu background while on parental leave, with a New York federal judge ruling he failed to show that his negative performance evaluations stemmed from discrimination.
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March 25, 2024
An Illinois federal judge said he had doubts about claims that United Airlines owes pay to pilots taking military leaves, saying he'll wait for several appeals courts to decide the fate of similar suits before signing off on class certification.
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March 25, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit rejected a former radio host's push for a second shot at pursuing his claims that he was fired because of his bisexuality, after the panel found he hadn't overcome the station's argument that he was terminated over a drunken episode at a concert.
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March 22, 2024
Bank Hapoalim BM and the CEO of its New York branch has beaten, for now, an ex-employee's federal sex discrimination allegations after a Manhattan federal judge found that her suit hadn't shown how she'd suffered retaliation after complaining that her boss gave dozens of employees COVID-19.
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March 22, 2024
Dissenters recently spilled substantive ink in federal appellate discrimination cases tackling essential job functions, religious organizations' autonomy and customer misbehavior, statements that experts said can be influential where there's a dearth of clear law.
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March 22, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asked a North Dakota federal judge Friday to amend an order blocking the government from requiring a Christian business group's members to provide gender transition-related healthcare coverage, seeking clarification that the government won't be penalized for unknowingly going after the group's anonymous members.
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March 22, 2024
Houston-based Occidental Petroleum Corp. says that it didn't interfere with a former employee's access to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act and didn't retaliate against him for seeking leave, telling a Texas federal court Friday that the worker's suit should be tossed because any damages he may have suffered were his own doing.
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March 22, 2024
A plastics company that allegedly refused to promote a worker because he was about to deploy with the Ohio Air National Guard has settled claims that it discriminated against him and ultimately forced him to quit because of his military service.
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March 22, 2024
New York City recently added a private right of action to its paid sick and safe leave law, raising the risk that employers could see class action lawsuits if they fail to provide the required time off to employees or document it properly, experts say.
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March 22, 2024
Microsoft agreed to settle a transgender former software engineer's Washington state court suit alleging that she was fired after repeatedly raising concerns that her work was unfairly criticized by her colleagues and that she was subjected to bullying due to her gender presentation.
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March 22, 2024
A Georgia federal judge signed off Friday on a $70,000 settlement that puts an end to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's lawsuit accusing Dillard's Inc. of refusing to allow a pregnant employee to take breaks and then firing her after she complained.
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March 22, 2024
A Manhattan federal judge provisionally held Friday that Madeline Cuomo, the sister of former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, should sit for a deposition to address claims that she facilitated an effort to retaliate against a woman who has accused the former governor of harassment.
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March 22, 2024
A New Jersey appeals court backed a life sciences company's win in a former manager's suit claiming she was unlawfully fired for posting statistics about police violence on social media following the 2020 murder of George Floyd, ruling she hadn't shown the company discriminated against white workers.
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March 22, 2024
A D.C. federal judge dismissed the bulk of a suit brought by a Black worker accusing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security of subjecting him to unfair criticism because of his race and then firing him after he complained, saying he failed to beef up the suit with details.
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March 22, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for a California federal court's final approval of an $18 million settlement in an age discrimination class action against HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in the state.
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March 22, 2024
Four Jewish graduate students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed religious discrimination charges with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging their union illegally refused to let them withdraw from the labor group after they raised concerns about what they called its antisemitic leanings.
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March 22, 2024
In the coming week, the Second Circuit will consider a former Connecticut town employee's attempt to revive a lawsuit claiming she faced sexual harassment on the job without an adequate response from the town. Here, Law360 explores this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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March 21, 2024
A former spokesperson for Republican lawmakers in the Connecticut House of Representatives can pursue an allegation of constructive discharge that the GOP office sought to have nixed from her discrimination lawsuit, a state court judge has ruled, finding that the plaintiff can claim an exception after failing to exhaust her administrative remedies.