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April 16, 2024
A Virginia healthcare system defeated a suit claiming it unlawfully refused to excuse two Christian employees from its COVID-19 vaccination requirement, with a federal judge finding they could have taken a version of the vaccine that didn't conflict with their religious beliefs.
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April 15, 2024
Connecticut's state human rights watchdog has urged a state court to uphold a $62,000 award in favor of a Charter Communications worker who says she was fired because she had post-traumatic stress disorder, arguing that the decision followed sound legal principles and the judicial branch should defer to the agency's ruling.
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April 15, 2024
Counsel representing a putative class of roughly 6,000 Black Tesla workers alleging the automaker has allowed racism to run rampant at its California factory fired back during a class certification hearing Monday, calling Tesla's suggestion that plaintiffs counsel are driving the state's civil-rights litigation "beyond preposterous."
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April 15, 2024
A North Dakota hospital will pay $45,000 to resolve a lawsuit the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lodged accusing it of firing a Black nurse's aide less than a week after she reported that a colleague had called her the N-word, the agency announced Monday.
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April 15, 2024
The Tenth Circuit refused Monday to revive a doctor's lawsuit claiming a Kansas hospital refused to let him work after he was diagnosed with minor neurocognitive disorder, finding it was unreasonable to expect the medical center to pay over $1 million for another physician to supervise him.
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April 15, 2024
Harvard University has said a lawsuit seeking to force it to submit to court-ordered monitoring and other conditions following allegations of antisemitism on campus "is neither an effective nor legally appropriate vehicle" to address the issue.
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April 15, 2024
An Alabama federal jury rejected a former athletic director's gender bias suit alleging she was paid less than male colleagues and demoted by an Alabama school board, four months after the case was revived by the Eleventh Circuit.
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April 15, 2024
The Iowa Supreme Court overturned a social worker's $790,000 jury trial win in her lawsuit accusing Iowa's Department of Human Services of allowing a male supervisor to make sexualized comments to her and other female employees, saying she couldn't rely on other workers' experiences to prove her case.
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April 15, 2024
Google told a California federal court it should toss a lawsuit alleging the tech giant fired an employee because he took medical leave due to his bipolar disorder, arguing he was let go because of threatening emails he sent rather than his mental illness.
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April 15, 2024
A Long Island debt collection law firm told a New York federal judge it reached a settlement in principle Monday to end a former employee's suit alleging the firm discriminated against her by failing to give her accommodations after a car accident and then terminating her.
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April 15, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review a cardiologist's unsuccessful gender bias suit alleging he was fired after being falsely accused of mistreating female colleagues, despite his argument that the Second Circuit used the wrong legal standard when it backed the case's dismissal.
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April 15, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a challenge by a Black librarian from Alabama to an Eleventh Circuit decision that shut down her suit alleging she was fired for complaining about a Confederate celebration.
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April 15, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission unveiled its final rule implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act on Monday, largely adopting a sweeping pro-worker interpretation of the year-old law.
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April 15, 2024
The First Circuit reinstated a lawsuit accusing Whole Foods of unlawfully disciplining and then firing an employee who wore a Black Lives Matter mask at work, overturning the Amazon-owned supermarket chain's pretrial win.
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April 12, 2024
UMG Recordings Inc. urged a New York state judge on Thursday to dismiss it from a lawsuit accusing hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs and R&B artist Aaron Hall of sexually assaulting a woman in 1990, saying the woman's claims are untimely and have nothing to do with the music company.
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April 12, 2024
AAA asked a Florida federal court to toss a former employee's gender discrimination suit after his attorney skipped out on a deposition to watch the solar eclipse, part of a pattern of nonprosecution and delay of the case that AAA says should warrant dismissal.
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April 12, 2024
Dunn DeSantis Walt & Kendrick LLP recently expanded its San Diego office with the addition of seven employment law attorneys, the firm said in a statement.
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April 12, 2024
Legal experts speaking Friday at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law's symposium on artificial intelligence and evidence in civil litigation warned that broadening usage and increased regulation will lead to a wave of litigation over the technology, leaving courts to analyze the "black box" of corporate AI algorithms to determine liability.
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April 12, 2024
Global immigration law firm Berry Appleman & Leiden is facing a disability discrimination suit filed Friday in Texas federal court by its former software tech lead, who says the firm set him up to fail when he sought reasonable accommodations for a coding project due to side effects from his medication.
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April 12, 2024
A former al-Qaida member has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify disqualification protocol for judges overseeing a case related to their prior work as a government attorney, and energy drink manufacturers want the court to develop a modern-day test to determine if companies qualify as price-discrimination competitors. Here's four high court petitions filed recently that you might've missed.
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April 12, 2024
Employer-side firm Jackson Lewis PC has added a former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission litigator to its Baltimore office who says her experience with the federal bias watchdog gives her a comprehensive view on how to advise clients.
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April 12, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge declined to toss the crux of a nurse's disability bias suit alleging the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center forcibly sedated him after claiming he was drunk on the job, ruling the former worker put forward enough detail showing the incident may have been prejudicial.
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April 12, 2024
An Eleventh Circuit panel on Friday tossed a Florida woman's suit claiming LinkedIn banned her for spreading COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, finding she abandoned her appeal by failing to support her arguments.
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April 12, 2024
The City of Chicago can't dodge a lawsuit alleging its water management department created a work environment replete with racist slurs and subjected Black workers to harsher punishment than white colleagues, with an Illinois federal judge ruling Friday the workers provided enough evidence to proceed to trial.
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April 12, 2024
Recent state supreme court decisions approving strict abortion bans in Arizona and Florida will have effects that are felt in the workplace, experts said, warning that employers should be prepared to accommodate workers and deal with disagreements. Here, Law360 looks at four things employers in those states, and in others that have implemented or may implement abortion bans, should be prepared to tackle.