A D.C. Circuit judge recently expressed frustration with what he called a "rising trend" in which courts discount evidence of workplace harassment when the conduct isn't directed at the employee who filed suit, spotlighting a legal drift attorneys agree is out of step with case law.
A New York federal judge granted Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. a new trial in a lawsuit by an employee who said he was fired for reporting what he alleged was pro-Indian hiring bias, finding that keeping an $8.4 million verdict would be a "miscarriage of justice."
A Colorado medical center was allowed to withdraw recognition from its workers' union, even though it unlawfully assisted in the decertification campaign, because a majority of its workers had already signed the decertification petition by the time the unlawful assistance began, the National Labor Relations Board's Republican majority ruled.