A recent decision that blocked California regulators from filling in for the National Labor Relations Board while it lacks a quorum kept other parts of the novel law in place, though those vestiges leave the state little of the new role it asserted in private-sector labor relations.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will call on the Eighth Circuit to reopen a harassment case one day before seeking the Second Circuit's help to wind down a longstanding race discrimination suit, while the Tenth Circuit will revisit a hot-button legal battle over diversity training. Here, Law360 looks at five oral arguments discrimination attorneys should keep tabs on in January.
The Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that a Christian ministry is constitutionally clear to refuse employment to people based on their sexual orientation, explaining that the First Amendment allows religious ministries to prefer candidates who share their beliefs about marriage and sexuality.