A decision last week from New York's highest court preserving long-standing age limitations on judicial service left unresolved questions about the reach of a nearly 2-year-old constitutional amendment expanding state antidiscrimination protections, experts said.
A decision last week from New York's highest court preserving long-standing age limitations on judicial service left unresolved questions about the reach of a nearly 2-year-old constitutional amendment expanding state antidiscrimination protections, experts said.
The Third Circuit declared Wednesday that the long-standing, worker-friendly standard used to evaluate Title VII retaliation claims also applies to analogue allegations under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act, kickstarting a former Marine's suit over a leaner-than-expected bonus and pay raise.
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday revived a suit from two flight attendants claiming they were illegally fired by Alaska Airlines and abandoned by their union for opposing the airline's support for LGBTQ+ rights, saying they demonstrated a plausible dispute about whether Alaska terminated them based on their religious beliefs.
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Wednesday that it will convene next week to consider a new four-year strategic plan and proposals to eliminate several decades-old guidance documents relating to voluntary workplace affirmative action plans.
The Eighth Circuit refused Wednesday to reopen a former U.S. Agriculture Department employee's lawsuit alleging she was fired because of her anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder, saying she couldn't overcome the agency's assertion that attendance issues cost her the job.
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday appeared skeptical about reviving a suit from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer who said a colleague posting photos of him on Facebook amounted to sexual harassment, with judges suggesting precedent may not be on his side.
The Eleventh Circuit backed benefits administrator Sedgwick's win on Wednesday in a former worker's age bias suit alleging the company unfairly criticized her performance and fired her, ruling her case fell flat because she filed her presuit bias charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission too late.
A Maryland State Police sergeant must face a lawsuit alleging he excluded two Black task force members from meetings and failed to address a subordinate officer's racist text message, with the Fourth Circuit ruling Wednesday that a reasonable supervisor would've understood his actions violated civil rights law.
A New York federal judge tossed a Black former executive secretary's suit claiming a cancer institute denied her request to work remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic out of racial bias, ruling she couldn't overcome evidence that her job required an in-office presence.
A former server and a former bartender at The Detroit Club broke down in tears in a Michigan federal courtroom Wednesday as their attorney emotionally urged jurors to hold the club and its owner liable for allegedly retaliating against them after they complained about what they believed was racist treatment of Black guests.
The District of Columbia's water utility will pay over $216,700 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it unlawfully fired a 54-year-old human resources employee and replaced him with someone two decades younger, according to a federal court filing.
The question of whether a worker consents to arbitrate even if they don't open emails containing opt-out instructions for an arbitration pact, which the Ninth Circuit is considering, hinges on if the worker acknowledged having received the emails, attorneys said.
O'Reilly Auto Parts illegally fired a worker who couldn't return to his truck-driving position after suffering a seizure instead of finding him a new role, a new disability discrimination suit from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleges in Michigan federal court.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claimed in a Mississippi federal court suit that a barge transportation company violated disability bias law by yanking back a worker's job offer after he failed a color vision test, even though the results wouldn't have impacted his position.
