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September 05, 2024
The Fifth Circuit breathed new life into a former patient care assistant's lawsuit alleging a Houston hospital fired her for reporting that colleagues called her "white trash," saying she shouldn't be faulted for a tardy presuit charge when the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission caused the delay.
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September 04, 2024
A retired Discover Financial Services executive vice president sued the company in Illinois federal court on Wednesday alleging age and gender discrimination, saying she was the only woman to lose over $7 million in unvested equity awards over a credit card misclassification issue for which she wasn't even responsible.
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September 04, 2024
A Florida federal magistrate judge has recommended against dismissing a suit by a former University of Miami surgery chair who says she was discriminated against because of her race and gender and demoted because she complained about it.
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September 04, 2024
A Florida restaurant owner propositioned a female server and sexually harassed her daily on the job, according to a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit filed Wednesday, claiming the business fired her after she warned that she was going to do something about his behavior.
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September 04, 2024
A split Fourth Circuit panel on Wednesday set a standard for the legality of hemp products, although it still found that a real estate company worker claiming she was illegally fired for testing positive for a THC substance didn't back her disability bias claims.
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September 04, 2024
The Third Circuit reopened a former machinery worker's lawsuit alleging he was fired because he requested light-duty assignments following an on-the-job back injury, saying Wednesday a trial court used an outdated standard to conclude that federal law didn't consider his temporary pain a disability.
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September 04, 2024
A New York state judge released Warner Music Group and Atlantic Records from a suit claiming their negligence allowed Atlantic's then-CEO to sexually assault the plaintiff in the 1980s and that they violated their duty of care by failing to fire him, finding the entities didn't exist at the time.
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September 04, 2024
The city of St. Louis has tentatively settled a former cop's bias suit claiming she was illegally transferred due to her gender, according to a court filing on Wednesday, potentially ending a legal battle that prompted the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify Title VII's scope.
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September 04, 2024
A California federal judge has conditionally certified a collective action on behalf of former Twitter workers aged 50 and older who were fired after Elon Musk acquired the company, saying while this isn't the stage "to weigh the evidence," the complaint shows "beyond mere speculation" Twitter may have discriminated against older employees.
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September 04, 2024
An Indiana federal jury said a glass manufacturer should pay nearly $1.1 million to a Black job applicant who said he was passed over in favor of several white candidates because of his race.
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September 04, 2024
An entertainment industry union local's admissions and job referral practices make it harder for Black and Latino applicants to secure union membership and positions at production studios like HBO and CBS, an electrical technician alleged in a proposed class action filed in New York federal court.
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September 04, 2024
A Second Circuit panel on Wednesday voiced some skepticism of a bid to revive a New York state judge's lawsuit over his "exile" after he failed to get a religious exemption from the court system's COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
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September 04, 2024
An Alabama federal judge signed off on a settlement agreement between a Papa John's franchise and a Black former pizza delivery driver who alleged he faced a hostile work environment and was under-reimbursed for mileage, according to court papers.
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September 04, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission backed a worker who said a school district unlawfully slow-walked its response to her request to bring a service dog to work, telling the Fifth Circuit that a trial court missed the big picture when it tossed her case.
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September 04, 2024
A highway construction company agreed to pay $80,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging it didn't appropriately respond when a female truck driver complained that male colleagues were sending explicit pictures and making sexual comments, the agency told a North Carolina federal court.
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September 03, 2024
A former vice president and chief human resources officer for The Elevance Health Companies Inc. claims it terminated his employment to hire a substantially younger person and tried to call it a retirement, according to an age discrimination suit filed in a Georgia federal court Tuesday.
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September 03, 2024
The Sixth Circuit reinstated a former employee's suit Tuesday claiming she was fired by a painting company after she asked to be placed in a department with fewer paint fumes to accommodate her asthma, stating a jury needs to sort out whether her request was reasonable.
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September 03, 2024
An African American former employee at the Seattle Municipal Court has alleged that she was the target of racist and sexist comments and that a court administrator falsely claimed in a courtwide email that she had been arrested and charged with a serious crime when she was on sick leave.
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September 03, 2024
Retailer Aaron's urged a Washington state court to throw out a job applicant's proposed class action accusing it of failing to post salary ranges in job advertisements, saying the worker's 15 other similar lawsuits show he had no interest in actually getting a job at the company.
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September 03, 2024
The California Senate voted in favor of a union-backed bill that would bar employers from requiring employees to attend meetings related to religious or political matters — including company-organized meetings used to discourage union-formation — sending the so-called captive audience bill to the governor's desk.
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September 03, 2024
The Eighth Circuit will consider reviving a red state challenge to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Pregnant Workers Fairness Act regulations, and the Eleventh Circuit will decide whether to let Florida bar a transgender teacher from sharing her preferred pronouns and title at work. Here, Law360 looks at four argument sessions employment discrimination attorneys should keep tabs on in September.
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September 03, 2024
The Eighth Circuit revived a former Union Pacific conductor's lawsuit alleging he was unlawfully fired after failing a color vision test, ruling Tuesday that a lower court erroneously said his participation in a defunct class action couldn't save his claims.
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September 03, 2024
An evangelical teacher urged the Seventh Circuit to revive his religious bias lawsuit alleging he was unlawfully fired for refusing to use transgender students' gender-affirming names and pronouns, arguing a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision backs keeping his case in court.
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September 03, 2024
Duane Morris LLP is asking a California federal court to toss most of the claims in a proposed class action alleging the firm systemically underpaid female and nonwhite attorneys, saying the attorney who filed the complaint has been fairly treated and compensated and her claims lack validity.
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September 03, 2024
A former law professor at Florida A&M University wants the federal judge assigned to her retaliation lawsuit against the university to recuse himself, saying he has shown a "pattern of hostility" toward her in multiple court orders, according to a motion filed Tuesday.