June 16, 2023
The D.C. Circuit backed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's defeat of a Black ex-employee's race bias suit, ruling Friday it couldn't excuse the worker's late filing because he failed to explain why he mailed his complaint rather than choosing a more expedient way of filing.
April 17, 2023
A D.C. Circuit panel wondered Monday whether bad information a district court clerk disseminated about filing deadlines at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic represents the kind of extraordinary circumstance that warrants leeway for a federal worker's day-late discrimination case.
March 31, 2023
In April, the First Circuit will weigh a former Delta flight attendant's harassment and discrimination lawsuit over an alleged sexual assault by a pilot, the D.C. Circuit has been asked to overrule decades-old precedent governing filing deadlines, and the Ninth Circuit will evaluate two public employees' challenge to San Francisco's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Here, Law360 previews three arguments that employment discrimination lawyers should have on their radar this month.