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July 08, 2024
An HIV-positive former flight attendant suing American Airlines over his firing for taking leaves has added as a plaintiff a fellow ex-attendant who claims she was terminated for taking time off to deal with health issues wrought by poor work conditions.
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July 08, 2024
An Ohio federal judge properly dismissed a fired white female prison guard's claim that her union failed to fight as hard for her reinstatement as it did for the Black male guard fired alongside her, the union told the Sixth Circuit, saying her claims lack merit.
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July 08, 2024
A Cleveland-based kidney dialysis clinic allegedly fired a technician for telling it she might have to return to a less demanding work schedule to help treat her son's medical condition, according to a complaint filed Monday.
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July 08, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit declined Monday to reinstate a race discrimination lawsuit a Black former employee brought against the city of Orlando, Florida, saying she failed to show that her firing and other actions she experienced were motivated by racial animus.
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July 08, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit partially revived a retaliation suit brought by a Florida construction worker who claims he was harassed for being Cuban and unable to speak English and threatened and assaulted after reporting the behavior, before being fired by a company that said it found him sleeping on the job.
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July 08, 2024
Cozen O'Connor expanded its Pittsburgh office this week with the addition of an attorney with nearly two decades of experience in labor and employment law, who moved his practice after more than five years with K&L Gates LLP.
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July 08, 2024
The NFL has pointedly denied allegations by journalist Jim Trotter that it ignored his concerns about discriminatory hiring and increased its focus on him and his work after he raised them, telling a New York federal judge Friday that it knew nothing of his interactions with supervisors about those concerns.
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July 08, 2024
Dollar General has settled a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging the discount store chain allowed a regional manager to harass older district managers, two weeks before the case was scheduled for trial, according to an Oklahoma federal court filing Monday.
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July 08, 2024
An Oregon federal judge refused to release a hospital from a former employee's suit claiming she was fired because she objected to receiving a COVID-19 vaccine in light of her Christian beliefs, saying a jury is best suited to decide if there was bias when the company refused to accommodate her.
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July 08, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is working on reinstalling a shelved data collection initiative aimed at tackling pay inequity by surveying employers for salary details, according to the regulatory agenda of the administration of President Joe Biden.
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July 05, 2024
Armstrong Teasdale LLP's former vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion claims the law firm hired her to help it cultivate a more diverse workplace, but then blocked her attempts to make recommendations and improvements before wrongly firing her, according to a lawsuit recently filed in Missouri state court.
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July 05, 2024
Seminal rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court's latest term will reshape many facets of American society in the coming years. Already, however, the rulings offer glimpses of how the justices view specific circuit courts, which have themselves been reshaped by an abundance of new judges.
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July 05, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's lethargic pace of decision-making this term left the justices to issue a slew of highly anticipated and controversial rulings during the term's final week — rulings that put the court's ideological divisions on vivid display. Here, Law360 takes a data dive into the numbers behind this court term.
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July 05, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's dismantling of a 40-year-old judicial deference doctrine, coupled with rulings stripping federal agencies of certain enforcement powers and exposing them to additional litigation, has established the October 2023 term as likely the most consequential in administrative law history.
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July 05, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's session ended with a series of blockbuster cases that granted the president broad immunity, changed federal gun policy and kneecapped administrative agencies. And many of the biggest decisions fell along partisan lines.
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July 05, 2024
When the high court limited the scope of a federal obstruction statute used to charge hundreds of rioters who stormed the Capitol, the justices did not vote along ideological lines. In a year marked by 6-3 splits, what accounts for the departure? Here are some moments from oral arguments that may have swayed the justices.
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July 05, 2024
In a U.S. Supreme Court term teeming with serious showdowns, the august air at oral arguments filled with laughter after an attorney mentioned her plastic surgeon and a justice seemed to diss his colleagues, to cite just two of the term's mirthful moments. Here, we look at the funniest moments of the term.
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July 05, 2024
A Washington appeals court panel said a trial judge should have been disqualified over bias concerns raised by metro Seattle's bus agency in a worker discrimination case, according to an opinion that said the judge's order allowing an amended complaint was not a discretionary ruling in the case that would have forbid disqualification.
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July 05, 2024
The Eighth Circuit upheld the dismissal Friday of a 3M worker's suit claiming he was harassed by the company to get immunized against COVID-19 in violation of his Christian beliefs, ruling that because he wasn't fired for opposing the since-repealed vaccine mandate, he can't support a bias case.
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July 05, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission finalized regulations governing the new Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and published long-anticipated guidance for combating workplace harassment this year, triggering lawsuits from Republican attorneys general and religious groups. Here's a look at a quintet of suits challenging those EEOC policy moves.
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July 05, 2024
A technology company on Wednesday asked a Georgia federal judge to overturn a jury's decision to award a Black worker $535,000 in damages after finding he was fired in retaliation for complaining that his supervisor discriminated against him and that he was denied a raise because of his race.
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July 05, 2024
This U.S. Supreme Court term featured high-stakes oral arguments on issues including gerrymandering, abortion and federal agency authority, and a hot bench ever more willing to engage in a lengthy back-and-forth with advocates. Here's a look at the law firms that argued the most cases and how they fared.
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July 05, 2024
A New York federal judge on Monday will consider a Long Island restaurant's bid to dismiss a worker's lawsuit claiming the restaurant violated federal and state law by retaining a service charge instead of dividing it among servers as it told customers.
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July 03, 2024
The Third Circuit reinstated parts of a worker's suit claiming she was forced to resign from Pennsylvania's probation board because she was denied light duty and remote assignments to accommodate her pregnancy, stating Wednesday a recent high court ruling requires another look at her case.
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July 03, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit refused Wednesday to reopen a lawsuit accusing a Florida sheriff of violating a captain's legal rights during an internal investigation and then firing her because she's a gay woman, finding no issue with a trial court's dismissal of the case.