The Second Circuit appeared skeptical Friday of a former Amazon employee's attempt to revive her suit claiming she was unlawfully denied schedule flexibility to care for her son, questioning whether her suit should have been brought as an accommodation dispute rather than a discrimination suit.
The National Labor Relations Board's well-worn test for analyzing employers' defenses to anti-union discrimination claims is facing a new challenge from Starbucks, and while the company's effort faces long odds, the same test has also provoked the ire of at least one federal circuit judge.
The Washington Supreme Court found Thursday that a lower appeals court was too quick to nix a Latino county employee's $2 million verdict on claims he was suspended for calling out race bias, ruling the county's concerns about a set of jury instructions didn't warrant canceling the award.