-
August 06, 2024
The Seventh Circuit backed a pharmaceutical company's win over a lawsuit claiming it refused to promote and then fired a senior scientist because she was a Chinese woman in her 40s with back pain, finding her disability rendered her unable to complete crucial parts of her job.
-
August 06, 2024
A Sixth Circuit panel on Tuesday reinstated a video editor's lawsuit alleging a Christian-owned company sacked him for taking COVID-19 precautions, endorsing the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's position on religious nonconformity allegations.
-
August 06, 2024
Georgia-based medical provider Premise Health has asked a federal judge to dismiss a former nurse's race and pregnancy bias suit, saying she was canned because of her "egregious" violations of COVID-19 safety protocols rather than her desire to pump breast milk on the job.
-
August 06, 2024
A union representing Latino workers sued the city of Chicago and Home Depot in Illinois federal court Tuesday, alleging that city police officers moonlighting as store security subjected migrants seeking day labor work near the home improvement store to excessive force and racist insults in violation of their civil rights.
-
August 06, 2024
Labor and employment firm Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP is growing its San Diego footprint with the addition of a new outpost manned by an office managing partner and three associates who made the leap from Jackson Lewis PC.
-
August 06, 2024
A commercial laundry company has agreed to pay $1.1 million to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging it prioritized hiring Hispanic workers over those of other races and pushed employees into gendered roles.
-
August 06, 2024
The former controller for a former NFL player's reptile shipping business has, for now, dropped her lawsuit claiming the ex-linebacker sexually abused her at work and fired her after his wife discovered the conduct, apparently accepting the court's condition that she pay the player's costs and certain attorney fees.
-
August 06, 2024
Davis Saperstein & Salomon PC said eight former employees and the attorney representing them should be sanctioned for filing a pair of lawsuits in New Jersey state court alleging the firm violated wage and discrimination laws.
-
August 06, 2024
Defense contractor Parsons Corp. urged an Alabama federal judge to disqualify Maynard Nexsen PC from representing a former engineer in his unlawful termination case against the company, saying the firm was also representing Parsons when he filed his case.
-
August 06, 2024
A staffing firm that matches people with disabilities to jobs they can do from home agreed to pay $1.25 million to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming the nonprofit categorically rejected blind or low-vision applicants, according to a filing in Texas federal court.
-
August 06, 2024
Harvard University will have to face a federal civil rights complaint alleging it turned a blind eye to antisemitic intimidation of Jewish students in the wake of Hamas' terror attack on Israel, a Boston federal judge said Tuesday.
-
August 06, 2024
MoneyGram has agreed to settle a former employee's suit claiming she was fired for taking medical leave to treat a stomach illness, according to a Texas federal court filing.
-
August 05, 2024
A Colorado hog farm can't force the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to conduct remote depositions in its lawsuit alleging the farm ignored harassment of female workers, a federal judge ruled Monday, saying the employer hadn't shown that in-person testimony would be a hardship.
-
August 05, 2024
A Delaware federal jury awarded a former addiction treatment center worker $100,000 after finding the company defamed him when workers spread rumors that he had relapsed, but rejected his claims that the company discriminated against him for his perceived addiction.
-
August 05, 2024
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois urged the Ninth Circuit to reverse summary judgment in favor of trans patients who argued its exclusions for gender-affirming treatments violated the Affordable Care Act's anti-discrimination mandate, arguing Friday it is a third-party administrator that didn't design the exclusion nor exercised any control over it.
-
August 05, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge has refused to toss a suit from a transgender Philadelphia firefighter suing Independence Blue Cross for discrimination over the insurer's denial of coverage for facial feminization surgery, finding that claims under federal healthcare law could proceed, but not the Title VII claims.
-
August 05, 2024
Emory Healthcare Inc. has asked a Georgia federal judge to dismiss a civil rights lawsuit brought against it by the former head medical physician for the NFL team Atlanta Falcons.
-
August 05, 2024
The Eighth Circuit said Monday that Chipotle can't arbitrate an ex-employee's claims that she was raped by a co-worker on the job, rejecting the restaurant chain's arguments that the date of the alleged incident pushed her claims outside the bounds of a law shielding sex misconduct claims from arbitration.
-
August 05, 2024
A specialty alcohol and ingredients manufacturer unlawfully fired an electrician with sciatica after colleagues raised concerns about his ability to climb stairs and ladders, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told an Illinois federal court Monday.
-
August 05, 2024
A shipping company agreed to pay $400,000 to resolve a lawsuit from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accusing it of firing a manager after watching his health decline due to cancer, a filing in Georgia federal court said.
-
August 05, 2024
A former general counsel at steakhouse chain Palm Management is asking a New York federal judge not to toss her lawsuit or force her into arbitration, calling the arbitration clause in her employment agreement "unenforceable due to unconscionability based on the content of the clause."
-
August 05, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit on Monday refused to reopen a former football coach's lawsuit accusing a Georgia school district of unlawfully refusing to renew his contract because he's white, backing a lower court's determination that an earlier case against Black school board members barred the current claims.
-
August 05, 2024
A Connecticut federal judge tossed a Catholic chaplain's suit alleging Wesleyan University fired him for complaining that a Muslim chaplain's departure was an unfair firing, stating the former employee didn't support his claims with enough proof that bias affected the Muslim chaplain's employment or his own.
-
August 05, 2024
A technology company refused to hire a well-qualified job applicant for a sales director position because he was "too old" and Indian, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a suit filed in California federal court.
-
August 02, 2024
A Florida federal judge has ruled the state's Department of Management Services illegally excluded gender-affirming treatment for transgender employees under state-sponsored health benefits plans, finding the state's exclusion only applies to trans individuals and is facially discriminatory under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.