March 18, 2025
The Sixth Circuit grappled Tuesday with reopening two Black truck drivers' race harassment suit against their former employer, with the judges quizzing both sides extensively about the severity of racial epithets and whether sufficient precedent exists that backs the workers' case.
March 03, 2025
The Second Circuit will hear from the National Football League and Black coaches who say their race discrimination class action shouldn't be forced into arbitration, and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is expected to appear as an amicus in a half-dozen cases involving hot-button issues. Here are eight argument sessions discrimination attorneys should keep tabs on in this month.
October 15, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged the Sixth Circuit to revive claims brought by two Black former workers that they faced racist harassment at a transportation company, arguing the lower court minimized that they were regularly called slurs on the job.