The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lodged two opening appellate briefs Thursday, seeking reinstatement of a sexual harassment suit brought on behalf of teenage Chili's workers and a disability discrimination case alleging that long COVID symptoms cost a worker her job. Here, Law30 looks at these and three other cases that the anti-discrimination watchdog wants appeals courts to revive.
The Fourth Circuit has reprimanded an attorney suspected of using generative artificial intelligence to draft briefs in a race discrimination lawsuit against Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., warning that courts need to grapple with the technology as it "may soon become the norm."
Amazon and a group of warehouse workers sparred in letters to the Second Circuit over the impact a recent Connecticut Supreme Court ruling has on whether employees must be paid for time spent exiting company warehouses.