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August 21, 2024
A Pennsylvania university, the system that oversees it and two university administrators must pay over $3.9 million to a former business school dean who claimed he was fired for helping an administrative assistant report sexual harassment, after a federal judge accepted a jury's award Wednesday.
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August 21, 2024
A Virginia federal judge has struck down a U.S. Department of Defense policy barring HIV-positive people from joining the military, saying the DOD had failed to take current scientific evidence on HIV treatment and transmission into account.
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August 21, 2024
The Ninth Circuit appeared reluctant Wednesday to give the state of Idaho a green light for a prohibition on gender dysphoria treatment for minors, with judges vocally skeptical of the state's argument that the policy didn't discriminate based on sex.
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August 21, 2024
Wells Fargo has beefed up its legal representation with a powerhouse appellate litigator and an employer-side labor lawyer, both from Jones Day, following a jury's decision last month to enter more than $22 million in damages against it in a former director's disability discrimination case in North Carolina federal court.
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August 21, 2024
Gannett dodged a proposed class action alleging its diversity policies favored minority employees and job applicants over white journalists, with a Virginia federal judge ruling the workers leading the suit failed to show the newspaper publisher took action against them because of their race.
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August 21, 2024
A former city of Bridgeport healthcare administrator says she learned via a one-page, hand-delivered letter at the close of business on April 1 that she was immediately losing her job, a move she says violated the 14th Amendment because she received neither a warning nor an opportunity for a hearing.
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August 21, 2024
A California federal judge scrapped a proposed class action Wednesday alleging Twitter targeted employees with disabilities for termination following Elon Musk's takeover of the business, but left the door open for the former worker behind the suit to revise his claims.
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August 20, 2024
A California federal judge said she can't oversee claims that Teamsters Local 150's process for nominating and electing officials is "rigged to crush dissent," but she can oversee a former official's claim that he was excluded from a slate of candidates as retaliation for critiquing a colleague, the judge ruled Tuesday.
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August 20, 2024
The Fifth Circuit backed the dismissal of a railway electrician's disability bias suit claiming Union Pacific Railroad Co. unreasonably pushed him out of a job after he likely experienced an off-duty seizure, ruling the business properly considered that a second, on-the-job seizure could be imminent.
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August 20, 2024
A Ninth Circuit panel overseeing an Asian American worker's push to revive her bias lawsuit agreed Tuesday that the U.S. Supreme Court's April decision in Muldrow v. St. Louis puts her claims under a new lens, but wrestled with who should determine the case's outcome.
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August 20, 2024
Kansas lawmakers approved a $50,000 settlement ending a former highway patrol worker's lawsuit alleging he was fired because he's transgender amid an investigation into whether he'd harassed a female colleague.
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August 20, 2024
A Wisconsin federal judge has removed three of the seven individual defendants named in a suit brought by an attorney challenging the Wisconsin Bar's diversity clerkship program after they argued they were not personally responsible for actions alleged in the suit, with the judge also cutting a claim for money damages.
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August 20, 2024
A Florida A&M University College of Law professor asked a federal court to maintain her discrimination suit because "context matters" in the case, and it shouldn't be decided on summary judgment, as the school suggested.
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August 20, 2024
The Ninth Circuit revived a suit Tuesday from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer who alleged his colleagues mocked his sexuality in a private Facebook group, saying the case needs another look following a recent ruling that off-duty social media posts can create a hostile work environment.
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August 20, 2024
The legal industry continues to see incremental gains for female lawyers in private practice in the U.S., according to a Law360 Pulse analysis, with women now representing 40.6% of all attorneys and 51% of all associates.
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August 20, 2024
The legal industry still has a long way to go before it can achieve gender parity at its upper levels. But these law firms are performing better than others in breaking the proverbial glass ceiling that prevents women from attaining leadership roles.
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August 20, 2024
BNSF Railway Co. urged the Fifth Circuit to reject a colorblind conductor's bid to revive his disability bias suit claiming he was illegally fired for failing a vision test, arguing that the former employee's impairment disqualified him for the job.
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August 20, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission won't go through with a one-day furlough of agency staff that it had been considering due to budget constraints, with EEOC Chair Charlotte Burrows saying Tuesday that the measure is no longer necessary.
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August 20, 2024
The city of Philadelphia, Independence Blue Cross and a firefighters union agreed to settle a transgender firefighter's suit claiming she was unlawfully denied coverage for facial feminization surgery, just weeks after a Pennsylvania federal judge refused to let the insurer out of the case.
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August 20, 2024
A New York federal judge refused to throw out a trainer's lawsuit alleging that a luxury gym failed to properly pay her and that its owner sexually harassed her, saying her entire case falls under an amendment to the Federal Arbitration Act mandating that sexual harassment claims remain in court.
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August 19, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice is urging a Texas federal judge to side with the administrative law judge overseeing the immigration bias investigation against SpaceX, saying the company is using its constitutional attack against the framework of the proceeding as a distraction.
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August 19, 2024
The city of Seattle has argued that a white ex-employee can't prevail in his discrimination claims over its workplace diversity programming, telling a Washington federal judge the worker was never disciplined or demoted despite his "increasingly aggressive and inappropriate attacks on coworkers" who supported the racial justice initiative.
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August 19, 2024
A New York state judge on Monday declined to dismiss an actress's claims against The Walt Disney Co., its subsidiary Miramax Film NY LLC and Creative Artists Agency LLC over an alleged sexual assault by disgraced film executive Harvey Weinstein.
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August 19, 2024
In a pair of dueling briefs, both the U.S. Air Force and a cadre of its airmen are sparring over whether the military's revocation of its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for service members spells the end for the airmen's suit challenging the mandate on religious freedom grounds.
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August 19, 2024
The Sixth Circuit on Monday upheld a $250,000 jury verdict finding that a Michigan county brought retaliatory use-of-force criminal charges against a sheriff's office sergeant for filing a previous lawsuit, ruling he put forward enough proof that the charges he was hit with may have been bogus.