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August 30, 2024
The Seventh Circuit said it would take up a midsuit appeal from Eli Lilly challenging a lower court's ruling granting collective certification to a sales representative in her age discrimination lawsuit, backpedaling from an order in July that declined to take up the dispute because of its incomplete record.
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August 30, 2024
A former Occidental Petroleum Corp. employee can't upend an arbitrator's determination that the company didn't violate an agreement settling claims that she was sexually assaulted at work, with a Texas appellate court finding she agreed to arbitrate employment disputes when she accepted two stock grants.
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August 30, 2024
A Massachusetts man applying for jobs with Staples Inc. filed a proposed class action alleging the company violated a state law that requires companies to notify candidates that the use of lie detectors is banned for hiring decisions, the latest such case targeting a major Bay State employer.
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August 29, 2024
A class of pilots accusing American Airlines of violating the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 by denying pay for time spent on military leave can't seek liquidated damages, given a lack of evidence that the airline knew it was breaking the law, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Thursday.
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August 29, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge declined Thursday to side with either party on the core claims in a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging a Philadelphia legal services organization fired an attorney who asked for more medical leave, ruling that the case is best fit for trial.
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August 29, 2024
A Washington attorney who says he was wrongfully fired from his job with the state's Office of the Attorney General after he was diagnosed with trauma linked to being a closeted gay Mormon youth has filed a new lawsuit after a similar case was tossed by a federal judge last fall.
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August 29, 2024
A former Northwestern University cheerleader has dropped her Illinois federal lawsuit that accused the school of sexually exploiting her and fellow squad members in order to bring in big dollars from donors.
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August 29, 2024
A pair of hefty U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission settlements on behalf of dozens of construction workers demonstrate the agency's laser focus on systemic discrimination in the sector and should prompt employers in the field to get their houses in order, experts said.
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August 29, 2024
The NFL and Denver Broncos said a former player's revised discrimination lawsuit can't avoid arbitration because claims that he was unfairly fined more than $532,000 for using prescribed THC to treat medical conditions still fall under a collective bargaining agreement.
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August 29, 2024
A former legal assistant at Burke Warren MacKay & Serritella PC has sued the firm for disability discrimination in Illinois federal court, saying he was illegally fired rather than accommodated when his cancer treatment led him to ask for a permanent work-from-home schedule.
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August 29, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit backed Atlanta's defeat of a former city employee's lawsuit claiming she was fired for speaking up about sexual harassment, ruling Thursday that the worker couldn't overcome the city's explanation that she was fired for missing work without permission.
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August 29, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit said it will not reconsider its ruling allowing Alabama to enact a ban on certain gender-affirming medical care for minors, knocking down a challenge brought by parents and those who received the treatment of the circuit's ruling, which found that the ban doesn't flout constitutional rights.
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August 29, 2024
A group of two dozen Republican attorneys general told the U.S. Supreme Court it should review a Fourth Circuit decision barring West Virginia and North Carolina from excluding coverage of gender-affirming medical care for transgender people, arguing states need the power to control controversial nascent treatments.
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August 29, 2024
The Sixth Circuit scrapped wins handed to Ohio State University and a professor in a former graduate student's suit claiming her Ph.D. adviser sabotaged her doctoral candidacy exam after she rejected his romantic advances, ruling that key evidence had been impermissibly blocked from trial.
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August 29, 2024
The Chicago Bears have quietly settled a discrimination lawsuit brought by a DePaul University law student who accused the team of discrimination when it declined to hire him as a "legal diversity fellow" because he is a white male.
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August 29, 2024
A Washington-based fruit growing and packaging company will pay $250,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging that a manager sexually harassed a pregnant worker and retaliated against her and her spouse because she rebuffed his advances and complained.
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August 28, 2024
An Illinois federal judge has granted Midway Broadcasting Corp. summary judgment on a former radio host's Rehabilitation Act claim in a suit alleging his show was canceled because he has cancer, concluding the law didn't apply to the company.
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August 28, 2024
A military contractor forced a department head to work with broken fingers and a spinal injury following a serious fall, refused to provide short-term disability leave paperwork and ultimately fired him when he raised concerns, according to a complaint filed in Connecticut federal court.
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August 28, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit's recent decision to rehear Georgia county officials' appeal seeking to exclude gender-confirmation surgery from its employee healthcare coverage rekindles an appellate debate on the extent to which Title VII protects transgender workers that could soon reach the U.S. Supreme Court, attorneys say.
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August 28, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board decision finding federal labor law did not protect three Alabama bar workers who claimed they were forced to quit after attending Black Lives Matter protests shows the limits of protections for employees' political protests, experts said, and illustrates how fact-specific such cases can be.
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August 28, 2024
A recent pregnancy bias lawsuit by WNBA player Dearica Hamby highlights the challenges faced by professional athletes who are also parents, especially when it comes to the leeway teams have to trade players, experts said. Here, Law360 dives into Hamby's case and highlights three key things attorneys should know.
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August 28, 2024
Kaufman Dolowich has hired a labor and employment attorney as a partner in its Los Angeles office who has been practicing with a firm he helped launch in 2009 for over 14 years, his new firm announced Wednesday.
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August 28, 2024
A former assistant public defender in North Carolina who lost her suit accusing the judiciary of botching her sexual harassment complaint has called out mistakes in the trial transcripts but opposed the government's method for correcting them, calling the proposal "fundamentally unfair."
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August 28, 2024
The Ninth Circuit declined Wednesday to reinstate a former assistant district attorney's suit claiming he was fired by the city of San Francisco for whistleblowing about what he alleged was misconduct, ruling there's not enough proof he was canned for going to the media with his concerns.
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August 28, 2024
An Iowa federal judge correctly tossed a mechanic's claim that a pork processing plant discriminated against him for taking Family and Medical Leave Act leave by firing him, the Eighth Circuit said Wednesday, but it said the judge should have preserved a claim that the discharge constituted FMLA interference.