-
July 26, 2024
Apple Inc. has signed onto the Biden administration's voluntary guidelines for "responsible" artificial intelligence innovation, joining the likes of Amazon.com Inc., Google LLC, Microsoft Corp. and a dozen other leading tech companies, the White House announced Friday.
-
July 26, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice and two former FBI employees whose texts disparaging former President Donald Trump were made public told a Washington, D.C., federal judge Friday they have reached settlements in their privacy rights cases.
-
July 26, 2024
The NFL and the Denver Broncos are looking to sidestep a former team member's disability discrimination lawsuit claiming the league and team unfairly fined him $532,500 for using THC to treat an injury, arguing that the collective bargaining agreement they signed preempts state law.
-
July 26, 2024
The sudden emergence of Vice President Kamala Harris as the likely Democratic nominee for president has already inspired enough racist and sexist attacks from Republican lawmakers that party leaders have reportedly told members to tone it down. As Election Day nears, here are four tips for employers that want to keep tensions in the workplace from boiling over.
-
July 26, 2024
A Connecticut federal judge should lift a six-month stay in a sexual abuse lawsuit against World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. long enough for ex-CEO Vince McMahon to try to block the accuser's parallel case in state court seeking information about mysterious, WWE-funded medical treatment she says she underwent, McMahon is arguing.
-
July 26, 2024
A Maryland federal judge refused to toss a former CBS News station manager's claim alleging her former bosses at Paramount unlawfully withheld her bonus pay after she was terminated, but said the bosses themselves don't have to face the allegation because they weren't her employer.
-
July 26, 2024
A female sales representative for a beer and wine distributor can't get a new trial in her equal pay and discrimination suit because a Maine federal court correctly turned down her arguments that a juror was biased, the First Circuit ruled.
-
July 26, 2024
A helicopter manufacturer and its former material supply management worker who accused it of failing to accommodate her anxiety and terminating her when she asked to work remotely have agreed to permanently drop the former employee's suit, according to a stipulation filed Friday in Pennsylvania federal court.
-
July 26, 2024
Georgia's Augusta Judicial Circuit Public Defender's Office got an early win Friday in a discrimination and retaliation suit lawsuit filed by a former assistant public defender, saying she relied on her office to "infer that discrimination has occurred" based on her race or sex.
-
July 26, 2024
A Manhattan judge on Friday allowed both the New York attorney general and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo to appeal parts of a decision requiring the state to produce unredacted transcripts of some witness interviews in the sexual harassment investigation that led to Cuomo's resignation.
-
July 26, 2024
A Georgia federal judge has given preliminary approval to a $1.2 million deal to settle allegations from Mexican engineers who claimed they were lured to the U.S. with false promises of high-paying jobs and then forced to do manual labor for low wages.
-
July 26, 2024
Former Thompson Hine LLP income partner Rebecca Brazzano fired back at efforts by two firm partners to dismiss her lawsuit alleging sexual harassment, contending among other arguments that they waived their right to contest personal jurisdiction by filing another motion that attempts to force arbitration that didn't raise the jurisdiction issue.
-
July 26, 2024
A new law in Puerto Rico makes it illegal to discriminate against people who wear their hair in braids, twists or any style associated with a particular race, bringing the commonwealth in line with about two dozen mainland states with similar statutes.
-
July 26, 2024
Florida-based insurance law firm Property Litigation Group PLLC has reached a settlement with a former paralegal who alleged she was fired after reporting unwanted sexual advances and case mismanagement by a senior attorney.
-
July 26, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for oral arguments at the Ninth Circuit regarding whether warehouse workers are interstate transportation workers and therefore exempt from federal arbitration requirements. Here's a look at that proposed class action and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
-
July 26, 2024
The Ninth Circuit breathed new life into a psychologist's suit alleging the Federal Bureau of Prisons failed to stop a correctional officer from creating sexist and threatening social media posts about her, ruling a lower court erroneously determined the online content didn't amount to workplace harassment.
-
July 26, 2024
A Drexel University philosophy professor failed to show the mistreatment she said she faced from male professors amounted to unlawful sex bias as opposed to a merely unpleasant workplace, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled, knocking out much of her suit but letting an equal pay claim move ahead.
-
July 25, 2024
The Ninth Circuit vacated and remanded a lower court's ruling that the Bureau of Indian Affairs isn't liable for the actions of one of its officers who sexually assaulted a Northern Cheyenne woman, saying conflicting statements create a factual dispute regarding whether the officer was acting within the scope of his employment.
-
July 25, 2024
The New Jersey Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that the ministerial exception insulating religious employers from workplace tort claims protects an Orthodox Jewish school from a fired teacher's defamation claim over a letter sent to the community following an inquiry into allegations that he had interacted inappropriately with students.
-
July 25, 2024
A newly minted First Circuit judge dove enthusiastically into his first oral argument session Thursday, lobbing questions at a Boston medical center and a radiologist who said her discrimination and whistleblower case should be revived in part because of an April U.S. Supreme Court decision.
-
July 25, 2024
A white former city manager on Thursday asked the Eleventh Circuit to revive his race bias suit against Cordele, Georgia, and its commission chair, arguing the district court that oversaw the case held him to an improper evidentiary standard in dismissing his claims.
-
July 25, 2024
The U.S. Department of Education can't enforce its new interpretation of Title IX expanding LGBTQ+ rights against six states challenging the regulations, a Missouri federal judge ruled, saying the federal agency's interpretation of the statute isn't owed any deference under recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
-
July 25, 2024
A state-run residential care facility was allowed to fire a nurse who kept requesting religious leave after the facility had already given her nine days off to practice nondenominational Christianity — seven more religious days than its union contract required, Washington state's high court ruled Thursday.
-
July 25, 2024
A Manhattan federal judge dismissed a suit brought by a former Google executive who claimed he was fired after alleging that a female colleague sexually harassed him, citing a reported settlement with the company.
-
July 25, 2024
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday scrapped from a proposed rule requirements for federal contractors to attest that they were following federal and state labor laws, tossing President Barack Obama's efforts an earlier version of the rule revamped.