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The Ninth Circuit will have a chance to interpret the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Groff decision in a religious bias suit over a vaccine mandate, while the Fifth and Sixth circuits will hear from workers who have amicus backing from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Here are four argument sessions employment discrimination attorneys should keep tabs on in December.
The Walt Disney Co. agreed to pay $43.25 million to settle a class action claiming the entertainment giant paid thousands of women in middle management less than their male colleagues, according to a filing in California court.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's long-awaited guidance on workplace harassment that was finalized earlier this year will likely be on the chopping block after President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, but experts say rescinding it immediately won't be a realistic option for his second administration. Here, Law360 previews what the guidance’s near future may look like.
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The Ninth Circuit will have a chance to interpret the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Groff decision in a religious bias suit over a vaccine mandate, while the Fifth and Sixth circuits will hear from workers who have amicus backing from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Here are four argument sessions employment discrimination attorneys should keep tabs on in December.
The Walt Disney Co. agreed to pay $43.25 million to settle a class action claiming the entertainment giant paid thousands of women in middle management less than their male colleagues, according to a filing in California court.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's long-awaited guidance on workplace harassment that was finalized earlier this year will likely be on the chopping block after President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, but experts say rescinding it immediately won't be a realistic option for his second administration. Here, Law360 previews what the guidance’s near future may look like.
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November 27, 2024
Bimbo Bakeries USA has denied all wrongdoing in its response to a former employee's suit alleging the company made up a reason to fire him just over a year before he was set to retire.
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November 27, 2024
A union-represented construction worker who was fired for hitting a co-worker said in a discrimination lawsuit filed in Michigan federal court that he acted in self-defense, and that the company fired him but not the co-worker who initially struck him because he is Black and his co-worker is white.
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November 27, 2024
The Sixth Circuit reinstated a suit by a Black former State Farm employee claiming her firing resulted from complaining that the company discriminated against nonwhite customers and failed to address racism, saying Wednesday she cast enough doubt on the employer's position that she was canned for mishandling emails.
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November 27, 2024
A former law professor on Wednesday dropped his suit against George Mason University over its Title IX investigation into allegations that he retaliated against students who filed sexual misconduct claims against him.
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November 27, 2024
Fox Rothschild LLP is expanding its West Coast team, bringing in a Berliner Cohen LLP employment ace as counsel in its San Francisco office.
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November 27, 2024
Motion picture and television law firm Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light LLP used a "transparent pretext" to illegally fire an assistant who had a health condition and was over the age of 50, according to a suit alleging wrongful termination in California state court.
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November 27, 2024
A Black, Nigerian Catholic priest's suit claiming the diocese failed to act and then fired him when he complained that a colleague called him a racial slur was revived by New York's highest court, ruling his case was improperly foreclosed by a religious carveout to the First Amendment.
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November 26, 2024
Macy's urged an Ohio federal judge to ax a U.S. Department of Labor claim that the company discriminated against tobacco users by charging them an extra fee through its health insurance plan, arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Loper Bright ruling disqualifies the agency's regulations at issue.
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November 26, 2024
Trailer manufacturer Great Dane LLC agreed to pay $436,000 to resolve allegations that one of its Nebraska plants discriminated against non-U.S. citizens during the hiring process, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday, releasing new guidance about lawful permanent residents' employment rights.
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November 26, 2024
The Fifth Circuit refused Tuesday to upend a lower court's award of attorney fees to a Louisiana wildlife agency that defeated a Black former general counsel's race and sex bias lawsuit, ruling she couldn't argue she was unfairly treated just because her attorney failed to check his email.
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November 26, 2024
An Ohio federal judge found Tuesday that AstraZeneca discriminated against a former employee by denying his request to dodge its COVID-19 vaccine mandate because of his Christian convictions, granting him a partial win in his religious bias suit.
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November 26, 2024
A former DraftKings engineer alleges the sports betting company fired him after he requested parental leave despite positive reviews, violating the Family and Medical Leave Act, according to a lawsuit removed to Massachusetts federal court.
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November 26, 2024
A Texas lawyer pursuing a wrongful termination lawsuit against Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has been sanctioned for submitting a brief that included citations to nonexistent cases generated by an artificial intelligence tool, a Texas federal judge ordered this week.
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November 26, 2024
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP was hit with a disability discrimination lawsuit on Monday by a Denver attorney who says she was pushed out after seeking accommodations for hip problems.
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November 26, 2024
A former Regeneron Pharmaceuticals director asked a New York federal court not to toss her suit, saying she put forward sufficient details to back up her accusations that she was fired for lodging a complaint about her supervisor's abuse and requesting a flexible schedule to care for her daughter.
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November 26, 2024
Jackson Lewis PC has expanded its counseling and litigation offerings in Florida with the addition of an attorney from FordHarrison LLP.
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November 26, 2024
Discovery and damages in a former Reed Smith LLP labor and employment attorney's suit claiming gender discrimination will be limited to the effective date of New Jersey equal pay law, a state judge ruled, saying the law doesn't apply retroactively.
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November 25, 2024
A model who appeared as a contestant on "America's Next Top Model" sued Universal Music Group Inc. and Ye in New York federal court on Friday, alleging the rapper choked and sexually assaulted her during a music video shoot at the Chelsea Hotel in 2010.
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November 25, 2024
Longtime talk show host Charlie Rose reached a confidential settlement Sunday to end claims he sexually harassed three former CBS News staffers, averting a looming jury trial set for the next day in New York state court.
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November 25, 2024
A Black ex-clinical director told a Washington state jury Monday that a Seattle hospital owes him millions of dollars for failing to address a "culture of racism" targeting him and the patients of color he advocated for while leading a clinic with a purported mission of advancing equity.
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November 25, 2024
Boston University urged a federal court Monday to dismiss a former employee's allegations about a sexual harassment complaint investigation against him, arguing that the toss of a duty of fair representation claim against a Service Employees International Union affiliate spells the end of the suit.
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November 25, 2024
A Missouri state judge rejected a legal challenge to the state's ban on providing gender-affirming care to minors and adults, finding Monday the court should defer to the Legislature given that challengers hadn't proven the restrictions violated the U.S. Constitution.
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November 25, 2024
The Third Circuit revived a lawsuit Monday from a fired restaurant worker who said his gender and Turkish heritage earned him undesirable work assignments, saying his case may have been tossed based on a typographical error on his presuit U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charge.
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November 25, 2024
A Florida federal jury backed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in a lawsuit claiming it unlawfully created three women-only assignments at the Port of Tampa, finding the agency had a legitimate reason based on a U.S. Customs and Border Protection policy mandating same-gender searches of passengers.
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November 25, 2024
The California Privacy Protection Agency on Friday opened the public comment period for its latest rulemaking package proposing expansive draft rules regulating technologies fueled by artificial intelligence — including in the employment, education, healthcare, consumer protection, banking and insurance contexts — which business groups have already criticized as being overly broad and burdensome.