January 31, 2024
The Fifth Circuit declined Wednesday to reinstate a Black former employee's lawsuit accusing Lockheed Martin of demoting her after she complained to human resources about colleagues' race-based comments, saying her claims failed to rise to the level of severity that federal discrimination law requires.
July 03, 2023
In July, the Fifth Circuit is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a race and sex bias case by an ex-employee against aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, while the First Circuit will hear a sexual harassment case by a former dental professor at Tufts, and a worker who was fired after receiving in vitro fertilization treatments will make her plea to the Third Circuit. Here, Law360 previews six upcoming argument sessions that employment discrimination lawyers should keep tabs on.