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July 24, 2024
Six City University of New York professors have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to ax a state law that lets unions represent all employees of certain public-sector workplaces, saying the law violates their First Amendment right to dissociate from advocacy groups that support policies they oppose.
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July 24, 2024
The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday refused to reinstate a Black truck driver's lawsuit accusing convenience store chain Kwik Trip of firing him after he complained about racially hostile white co-workers, rejecting his argument that the lower court wrongly barred some of his allegations.
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July 24, 2024
Harvard University's arguments to dismiss claims it fails to protect Jewish students from antisemitic intimidation and threats boil down to telling the plaintiffs "cool your jets" while the school tries to address the issue, a lawyer for the students told a Massachusetts federal judge Wednesday.
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July 24, 2024
A former Wells Fargo managing director is seeking more than $32 million in economic damages after he said the bank laid him off to avoid dealing with his accommodation request, a North Carolina federal jury heard Wednesday on the third day of his Americans with Disabilities Act trial.
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July 24, 2024
A Sixth Circuit judge said Wednesday he was uncomfortable questioning the legitimacy of a person's religious beliefs, criticizing the American Red Cross' argument that a former worker dressed up her secular anti-vaccine views with religious language to get an exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine.
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July 24, 2024
An industrial sales company said Wednesday it faces irreparable harm from the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's accompanying regulations, urging a Texas federal court to freeze enforcement of the law while the company challenges its constitutionality.
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July 24, 2024
A Black former Union Pacific worker should get another shot at her lawsuit claiming her bosses forced her out by berating and overworking her, the Eighth Circuit ruled Wednesday, reviving the case in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling addressing the standard for bringing workplace discrimination claims.
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July 24, 2024
A marine electronics supply company in Louisiana allowed a supervisor to sexually harass a female employee and fire her after she refused his advances, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a new lawsuit.
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July 24, 2024
An Atlantic City, New Jersey, marijuana dispensary has settled a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by an ex-employee who claimed the business's managers wouldn't turn down the loud music that was triggering her PTSD.
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July 24, 2024
The Fifth Circuit refused to reinstate a $6.6 million jury verdict in a former medical resident's suit alleging he was fired despite assurances he would have 60 days to rectify professional and interpersonal issues, ruling the residency program's director didn't have the power to offer a binding agreement.
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July 24, 2024
Jenner & Block LLP has asked an Illinois federal judge to toss a former employee's claims that she was fired after being denied a religious exemption from the firm's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, saying she didn't do enough to spell out her religious beliefs or how they conflict with the vaccine.
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July 24, 2024
Rebecca Sivitz of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has helped several companies successfully handle mergers and restructuring, including helping The Kroger Co. face a first-of-its-kind challenge from the Federal Trade Commission, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 24, 2024
A California federal judge refused to toss a suit from a former manager who said a real estate company fired her because it assumed her work would suffer after she had a child, saying it was plausible that stereotypes cost her the job.
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July 23, 2024
A Texas industrial sales company sued the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Monday, challenging the constitutionality of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which echoes federal disability law in requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations for pregnant workers on the job.
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July 23, 2024
A former Wells Fargo managing director who claims he was terminated because of his disability wavered between being tearful and exasperated during four hours on the stand Tuesday as he tried to explain to a jury in Charlotte what workplace accommodations he was seeking and why.
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July 23, 2024
The Seventh Circuit refused Tuesday to reopen a former officer's lawsuit alleging the Illinois Department of Corrections unlawfully suspended him for 10 days because of Islamophobic social media posts, finding the agency's need for order outweighed his interest in publicly expressing his opinions.
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July 23, 2024
A nonprofit advocating for graduate students accused the union representing them at the University of Chicago of antisemitism, claiming the union is violating the First Amendment by making student workers pay fees to continue their employment despite statements the union has made about the war in Gaza.
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July 23, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge hit furniture retailer Ikea with nearly $567,000 in sanctions on Tuesday for deleting emails requested for discovery in a suit filed by a putative class of store workers challenging company policies for alleged age discrimination.
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July 23, 2024
A California federal judge sent into arbitration a Spanish-speaking cleaner's lawsuit accusing an airport services company of unlawfully terminating her, saying the court must enforce her English-only arbitration agreement because she had a bilingual person helping her with her paperwork.
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July 23, 2024
A trial court wasn't required to be more forgiving of extraneous filings in a Black attorney's suit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs because she's representing herself, the D.C. Circuit ruled Tuesday, backing the agency's win over her claims that she was fired for complaining about bias.
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July 23, 2024
The former longtime women's hockey coach at Harvard University alleged in a federal suit Tuesday that school administrators held her to a different standard and paid her "significantly" less than male coaches, before pushing her out over what she says were ultimately unsubstantiated complaints from ex-players.
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July 23, 2024
The Sixth Circuit wrestled Tuesday with whether six University of Louisville officials were each rightly denied immunity from a former professor's suit alleging he was unconstitutionally pushed out because of his views on treating childhood gender dysphoria, with one judge promising meticulous assessments of each defendant.
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July 23, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday reinstated a fire chief's lawsuit alleging a Florida county fired him in retaliation for disobeying a superior's order to reprimand workers who failed to request an exemption to its COVID-19 mandate, saying a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling needs to be taken into account.
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July 23, 2024
An attorney for the Christian postal carrier whose lawsuit prompted the U.S. Supreme Court to strengthen workers' ability to secure faith-based workplace accommodations struggled Tuesday to convince a trial judge that the updated high court rules tie up the case in the worker's favor.
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July 23, 2024
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., led a group of Democratic senators Tuesday in introducing a bill to codify the now-defunct doctrine of Chevron deference after it was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court last month.