November 15, 2024
Three religious groups urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a fire chief's suit claiming he was fired from a California city because of his Christian beliefs, arguing the Ninth Circuit opened a pathway for employers to discriminate based on religion when it backed the case's dismissal.
October 30, 2024
An ousted Christian fire chief appealing his loss in a religious bias suit has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to ditch its longstanding McDonnell Douglas test, and a recent Maryland Supreme Court decision that narrowed a bias law exemption for religious employers is being challenged as unconstitutional. Here, Law360 looks at four employment litigation developments that flew under the radar this month.