A diver will defend her win in a sex bias case before the Sixth Circuit, while the U.S. Postal Service and a Christian mailman who wanted Sundays off will cross swords in district court after the U.S. Supreme Court revived his case last summer. Here are four arguments that lawyers should have on their radar in July.
The Eighth Circuit recently made it easier for disabled workers to get bias cases to trial by reining in a legal shield employers can deploy against Americans with Disabilities Act claims, a step one disability law expert called "revolutionary."
The recent elimination of a long-standing doctrine that directed judges to defer to federal agencies' interpretations of ambiguous statutory language gives potentially potent ammunition to opponents of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's regulations implementing the Pregnant Worker Fairness Act, attorneys say.
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A diver will defend her win in a sex bias case before the Sixth Circuit, while the U.S. Postal Service and a Christian mailman who wanted Sundays off will cross swords in district court after the U.S. Supreme Court revived his case last summer. Here are four arguments that lawyers should have on their radar in July.
The Eighth Circuit recently made it easier for disabled workers to get bias cases to trial by reining in a legal shield employers can deploy against Americans with Disabilities Act claims, a step one disability law expert called "revolutionary."
The recent elimination of a long-standing doctrine that directed judges to defer to federal agencies' interpretations of ambiguous statutory language gives potentially potent ammunition to opponents of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's regulations implementing the Pregnant Worker Fairness Act, attorneys say.
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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.
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July 03, 2024
Federal judges in Mississippi and Texas granted conservatives states' requests Wednesday to freeze a new rule protecting access to healthcare for the LGBTQ+ community, with both judges ruling that states are likely to succeed in showing that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services overstepped when it created the regulations.
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July 03, 2024
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees affiliates accused the city of Philadelphia of violating labor contracts by not bargaining over the end to remote work, telling a state court that the city's move would impact around 2,900 workers in the bargaining unit.
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July 03, 2024
A Colorado federal judge struck several of an appliance retailer's affirmative defenses Wednesday in a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it wrongfully terminated a worker who asked for more time off to deal with long COVID symptoms.
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July 03, 2024
A female doctor who won a $12 million verdict against a male colleague over a sexual assault at a Los Angeles County hospital affiliated with USC's Keck School of Medicine can't revive sexual harassment claims against the university and the county, a California appellate court held.
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July 03, 2024
A Washington federal judge tossed a job hopeful's suit claiming healthcare companies shirked state pay transparency laws by failing to disclose salary information in job postings, finding that the applicant didn't show he was actually harmed by the missing compensation figures.
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July 03, 2024
Microsoft agreed to shell out $14.4 million to end a California Civil Rights Department's lawsuit claiming that it discriminated against employees who take protected employment leaves, the department announced Wednesday.
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July 03, 2024
CBS Broadcasting Inc. needed to solve its "white problem" so it excluded an experienced white male anchor from promotional events and then fired him in order to replace him with a young Black reporter, a complaint filed in California federal court said.
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July 03, 2024
The Delaware Department of Transportation can't defeat a former engineer's lawsuit claiming he was repeatedly passed over for promotion because he's Asian, a federal judge ruled, finding the worker provided enough evidence to cast doubt on the agency's rationale that his interview performance was lackluster.
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July 03, 2024
Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP has hired a former deputy attorney general for the California Department of Justice, who is joining from Greenspoon Marder LLP where she led that firm's employment litigation group, the firm announced Wednesday.
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July 03, 2024
An intermediate-level appellate panel in Massachusetts on Wednesday partially revived a suit brought by a state trooper who claimed she faced retaliation and was treated differently after breaking up with a colleague.
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July 03, 2024
A staffing firm will pay out $500,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit accusing it of failing to intervene when the female workers it placed at a raisin company reported sexual harassment, according to a filing in California federal court.
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July 03, 2024
This term, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference, a precedent established 40 years ago that said when judges could defer to federal agencies' interpretations of law in rulemaking. Here, catch up with Law360's coverage of what is likely to happen next.
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July 02, 2024
Northwestern University's law school favors hiring women and minority faculty candidates with "mediocre and undistinguished records" over better-credentialed white men, a conservative group claims in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Chicago federal court, a year after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in higher education admissions.
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July 02, 2024
Alki David, founder of FilmOn and heir to a Coca-Cola bottling fortune already facing more than $80 million in judgments related to sexual battery or sexual assault lawsuits, was ordered by a Los Angeles jury to pay a staggering $900 million to a former employee who accused him of raping her, according to documents posted in the case Tuesday.
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July 02, 2024
A Tenth Circuit panel on Tuesday sided with Charter Communications over an employee who alleged she was fired for seeking reasonable accommodations to pump breast milk at work, with the panel finding Charter supplied a legitimate reason for her termination.
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July 02, 2024
The Second Circuit refused on Tuesday to revive a lawsuit that a former fiscal affairs director brought against a New York county's policymaking branch, saying he failed to show that a planned back surgery — and not his poor performance — cost him his job.
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July 02, 2024
A New York county can't dodge a former assistant district attorney's suit claiming she was unlawfully fired for requesting time off following her husband's cancer diagnosis, with a federal judge ruling more information is needed to determine whether she was misled about her eligibility for leave.
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July 02, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit reinstated a suit Tuesday from a worker who claimed a Florida school board illegally denied his request to avoid working on the Sabbath, ruling that he did enough to show the board's decision making may have been discriminatory.
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July 02, 2024
The Seventh Circuit declined Tuesday to reinstate a Black physician's lawsuit alleging she was forced to quit because she was paid less than other doctors to do more work, saying she failed to show she was treated differently from white employees.
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July 02, 2024
A metal galvanization company can't cut several workers from a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it failed to address rampant racist language at its facility, a New York federal judge ruled, rejecting the employer's argument that the employees neglected the company's anti-discrimination policies.
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July 02, 2024
The D.C. Circuit revived a special agent's suit Tuesday alleging he lost a promotion in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for complaining he was denied job opportunities for being Asian American, finding the lower court overlooked details that supported his claims.
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July 02, 2024
Counsel for DLA Piper LLP told a Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday the firm has provided responsive information to a former associate who claims she was unlawfully fired while pregnant, adding it is confident her termination was lawful.
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July 02, 2024
A company that operates Wendy's restaurants reached a deal with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to end a suit claiming it shirked its legal responsibility to timely submit its workforce demographic data, a filing in Ohio federal court said.