November 19, 2024
A Tenth Circuit judge seemed incredulous Tuesday at a healthcare provider's argument that making an employee undergo company-sponsored mental health counseling to keep their job doesn't qualify as the kind of workplace action that can sustain an Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit.
November 18, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's general counsel is scheduled to make an uncommon courtroom appearance Tuesday when she ventures to the Tenth Circuit to argue that the U.S. Supreme Court's April decision in Muldrow v. St. Louis eases the path forward for workers bringing disability discrimination claims.
October 31, 2024
The Fourth Circuit will hear from a nurse who was fired for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccination while the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will venture to the First, Tenth and Eleventh circuits to back up arguments made in amicus briefs. Here are four argument sessions employment discrimination attorneys should keep tabs on this month.
May 02, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told an appeals court that a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling strengthens a worker's disability bias case in an emphatic brief that experts say foreshadows the agency's aggressive push to use the high court decision to tip the scales in employees' favor.
April 30, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged the Tenth Circuit to reinstate a worker's disability bias suit claiming she was fired from a Kansas health system for refusing mental health counseling, arguing that a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling shows her case was improperly tossed.