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August 13, 2024
An Alabama federal judge won't disqualify Maynard Nexsen PC from representing a former Parsons Corp. engineer in his discrimination suit against the company for allegedly representing both parties at the same time, saying Parsons' disqualification motion was "unmeritorious."
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August 13, 2024
A former Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP associate's claim that the firm's Philadelphia office terminated him after he asked for accommodations for his hearing impairment is contradicted by a separate lawsuit in which he blames a legal recruiter for costing him his job, according to a recent filing by the firm.
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August 13, 2024
The Fifth Circuit breathed new life into a former Union Pacific train conductor's lawsuit alleging he was unlawfully fired after failing the company's updated color vision test, ruling his one-time inclusion in a defunct class action had extended the deadline for asserting his claims.
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August 13, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told the Tenth Circuit that a district court was too quick to toss a former Walmart worker's suit claiming he was demoted and fired for being gay, arguing the lower court applied incorrect legal standards to his case.
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August 13, 2024
A former State Street employee filed a lawsuit claiming the Boston-based megabank illegally fired her for taking medical leave for 9/11-related cancer treatments and for internally reporting more than a million dollars in alleged fraudulent bills sent to customers.
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August 12, 2024
A celebrity doctor with alleged ties to World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. and ex-CEO Vince McMahon should be sanctioned for filing a "vexatious" presuit discovery request in an effort to intimidate the woman who claimed the company and former executives sexually abused and trafficked her, she argued in a Monday motion.
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August 12, 2024
An Illinois federal judge on Monday partially dismissed a lawsuit brought by a Black recruiter claiming Morgan Stanley's "entrenched race discrimination" caused him to get lower commissions on minority workers hired at lower wages, but allowed him to amend his complaint to include more detailed allegations.
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August 12, 2024
A Sixth Circuit panel split over a challenge to a school district's policy banning students from misgendering each other, the Labor Department issued guidance outlining the process for federal contractors to expedite the resolution of bias claims and New Hampshire joined the list of states that ban hair-based discrimination. Here, Law360 catches you up on three developments that flew under the radar.
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August 12, 2024
The Ninth Circuit on Monday said a Christian nonprofit that wants to hire only other Christians can sue to block Washington state from enforcing its antidiscrimination law, echoing an earlier panel that found a Christian university with anti-LGBTQ+ hiring practices could contest the law.
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August 12, 2024
A WNBA player and Olympic medalist was traded to a less prestigious team after announcing she was pregnant and punished after she complained to the league about how she was being treated, according to a Monday complaint in Nevada federal court.
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August 12, 2024
A director of electrical wiring and cable giant Southwire Co. has alleged in a North Carolina federal court complaint that the company added non-essential functions to his job description while he was on medical leave that have prevented him from performing his workplace duties.
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August 12, 2024
A staffing company said Monday it will pay the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission $35,000 to close a Texas federal court suit alleging it failed to accommodate a job applicant's kidney disease by neglecting to find an alternative drug-testing method beyond a urine sample.
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August 12, 2024
Illinois employers will soon have to tell workers and applicants when they're using artificial intelligence in employment decisions and be barred from using technology that has a discriminatory impact under legislation signed by Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker.
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August 12, 2024
The Second Circuit said Monday that because a financial services worker said she continued to experience harassment after a law went into effect curbing mandatory arbitration for workplace sex misconduct disputes, her case can't be kicked out of court.
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August 12, 2024
The Tenth Circuit declined Monday to grant a new trial for a former United Parcel Service driver who sued for disability discrimination after a bout with heat exhaustion, finding he hadn't properly raised his arguments that the trial proceedings were unfair.
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August 12, 2024
Labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has expanded its offerings in Utah with the addition of a former leader of Polsinelli PC's employment class and collective actions practice group.
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August 12, 2024
A High Point, North Carolina, firefighter who leads his department's union said he's faced serious retaliation from higher-ups for standing up for workers' rights and is now at risk of losing his job for his advocacy work, according to a new lawsuit in North Carolina federal court.
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August 12, 2024
A split Sixth Circuit panel ruled that an Ohio library shouldn't have fired a security guard for sharing an insensitive Facebook meme about Black Lives Matter protesters, saying his post hadn't disrupted the library's operations and was therefore shielded by the First Amendment.
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August 12, 2024
A 65-year-old Federal Aviation Administration employee failed to show how her supervisor stood in the way of her career advancement, a Texas federal judge ruled, tossing the worker's suit claiming she was passed over for promotions because of her age.
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August 09, 2024
A California appellate court has rejected Tesla's attempt to ditch a Private Attorneys General Act case brought by former employees seeking personnel records, agreeing with a lower court that the workers' status as members of a class in a related action against Tesla doesn't entitle the electric-car maker to protection under anti-SLAPP.
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August 09, 2024
A healthcare union has scored a victory against an Ohio hospital that suspended one of its attendants after he tested positive for cannabis, with a federal judge ruling that an arbitration decision upending the disciplinary action was totally valid.
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August 09, 2024
The Third Circuit backed a Philadelphia-area bank's win over a Black former teller's lawsuit alleging she faced a hostile work environment and was ultimately forced out because her complaints about a customer's racist comments weren't taken seriously, saying Friday the company followed its standard policy to sever ties with the client.
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August 09, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court spurned historical analysis and "fundamentally" changed the presidency when it granted Donald Trump broad criminal immunity from federal charges that he interfered with the 2020 presidential election while in office, a Massachusetts federal judge wrote in a ruling Friday that ended an ex-public defender's sexual harassment lawsuit.
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August 09, 2024
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday agreed to answer a question posed by the Fifth Circuit regarding the interpretation of the state's human rights act in a case involving a former Southern Methodist University law professor who sued the school and several administrators after being denied tenure.
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August 09, 2024
The D.C. Circuit on Friday revived a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency employee's lawsuit alleging the agency mishandled his complaint about being seated next to a co-worker whose perfume triggered his severe allergies.