A group of workers for a commercial airline and a related entity failed to support their claims that the companies' COVID-19 pandemic-era policies discriminated against their religious beliefs, the Eleventh Circuit ruled Friday, while sharply criticizing their attorney for his misuse of artificial intelligence.
As 2026 heads into its homestretch, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether its legal test that made it harder for employers to deny religious accommodations needs clarifying, and the Fifth Circuit is poised to rule on whether Congress enacted the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act using unconstitutional voting procedures. Here, Law360 looks at four cases that discrimination attorneys should keep tabs on in the year's back half.
Supermarket owner WinCo Holdings urged the Fifth Circuit to vacate the National Labor Relations Board's finding that it ducked its duty to bargain with a new union in what may be the first appeal seeking to apply circuit precedent that undercuts ongoing agency cases to a final board decision.