The Sixth Circuit refused Tuesday to revive a Black law professor's lawsuit claiming the University of Michigan disciplined her out of bias and retaliation because she took medical leave, finding she failed to cast doubt on the university's belief that she'd abandoned her classes.
A Maryland-based LGBTQ+ advocacy organization alleged in a lawsuit Tuesday that recent steps taken by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to walk back enforcement of protections against sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination violate federal civil rights law and the U.S. Constitution.
The First Circuit upheld the dismissal of a male U.S. Navy worker's sex bias suit claiming he was fired for allegations of misconduct that his female colleague would not have faced, ruling the bedrock of his complaint was based on conclusory hypothetical scenarios of discrimination.
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The Sixth Circuit refused Tuesday to revive a Black law professor's lawsuit claiming the University of Michigan disciplined her out of bias and retaliation because she took medical leave, finding she failed to cast doubt on the university's belief that she'd abandoned her classes.
A Maryland-based LGBTQ+ advocacy organization alleged in a lawsuit Tuesday that recent steps taken by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to walk back enforcement of protections against sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination violate federal civil rights law and the U.S. Constitution.
The First Circuit upheld the dismissal of a male U.S. Navy worker's sex bias suit claiming he was fired for allegations of misconduct that his female colleague would not have faced, ruling the bedrock of his complaint was based on conclusory hypothetical scenarios of discrimination.
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July 29, 2025
A California appellate court Monday refused to revive a former Los Angeles police officer's suit claiming that he was denied due process when he was fired after refusing to comply with the city's COVID-19 policies, finding that the officer wasn't fired until after he made his case to the city.
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July 29, 2025
The Tenth Circuit refused on Tuesday to reopen a Christian employee resource group's lawsuit alleging a Department of Energy lab operator unlawfully withdrew its support from the group because it required leaders to affirm certain beliefs, finding no issue with a trial court's toss of the case.
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July 29, 2025
BofI Federal Bank, now operating as Axos Bank, has taken its dispute with a former auditor to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to vacate a Ninth Circuit decision upholding a $1.5 million jury verdict in favor of the auditor, who claimed he was fired for whistleblowing.
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July 29, 2025
A dozen former supervisors at a Detroit casino can proceed to trial on claims that their employer refused to accommodate their religiously motivated requests to skip the COVID-19 vaccine, a Michigan federal judge has ruled.
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July 29, 2025
A Minnesota federal judge pared down claims Tuesday from a former Travelers worker's suit alleging the insurance and financial services company unlawfully imposed a surcharge on the health plans of employees who disclosed they were tobacco users and thereby violated nondiscrimination provisions in federal benefits law.
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July 29, 2025
Former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissioner Jocelyn Samuels urged a D.C. federal court not to toss her lawsuit challenging her January removal, arguing the agency's design shows Congress didn't intend to give the president unrestricted power to remove commissioners he disagreed with.
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July 29, 2025
The Seventh Circuit has affirmed a lower court's dismissal of a former Chicago Transit Authority employee's retaliation lawsuit as a sanction for spoiling evidence, saying his explanation about how electronic phone messages were deleted changed over time and concluding that he wasn't entitled to an evidentiary hearing or jury review.
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July 29, 2025
A federal judge tossed a teacher's sex bias suit claiming the New York City Education Department failed to provide a space to pump breast milk on the job, ruling her case fell flat because she was never punished for pumping at work.
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July 29, 2025
Three attorneys sanctioned for judge shopping while challenging an Alabama statute that criminalizes gender-affirming care have asked the Eleventh Circuit to clear their names, castigating the process that led to their censure as "so extraordinary as to approach unprecedented."
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July 29, 2025
Harini Srinivasan of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC secured a $45 million settlement on behalf of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers who claimed pregnancy discrimination and also challenged AT&T's attendance point system, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 29, 2025
The Eleventh Circuit ruled Tuesday that a former furniture design consultant could have returned to work after a brief medical leave to handle his anxiety, sending his Americans with Disabilities Act suit back to a Florida district court that had ruled in favor of his employer.
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July 28, 2025
Munchkin Inc.'s former general counsel says he was fired for trying to sound the alarm about the baby products brand's "war on families" and culture of discrimination against working mothers and families, in a $10 million suit filed in California state court on Friday.
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July 28, 2025
A former Drexel University medical college professor and emergency doctor told a Pennsylvania federal jury Monday that she was fired for complaining about gender discrimination in the workplace, saying among other things she was denied a promotion that would have brought her potentially $6 million.
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July 28, 2025
A Michigan plastics company that makes plant and garden products failed to take action to address pervasive sexual harassment against a female worker, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in a new lawsuit filed Monday.
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July 28, 2025
John David of Shegerian & Associates helped a former bank branch manager secure a $14 million jury verdict in her sex discrimination lawsuit and led a consultant to victory in his disability bias case, earning him a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 28, 2025
A Houston-based hospital security contractor has agreed to pay $35,000 and implement anti-discrimination training to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit accusing the company of turning away a woman seeking a job because of her sex.
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July 28, 2025
The Sixth Circuit reinstated a former State Farm worker's retaliation suit claiming she was fired for helping a co-worker pursue a disability bias complaint, ruling that she showed she may have been targeted for timekeeping violations out of revenge for her advocacy.
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July 28, 2025
A former general counsel at Massachusetts life sciences firm Repligen has filed a lawsuit in state court claiming that a pervasive culture of gender bias led to her and other women being treated differently and paid less.
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July 25, 2025
The Fourth Circuit on Friday overturned a win for Kraft Heinz Inc. in a suit by a former worker at a meatpacking plant who alleged that he'd been fired for reporting safety issues, saying the district court wrongly concluded that a separate disciplinary investigation was the sole reason he was terminated.
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July 25, 2025
Columbia University's agreement to pay $21 million to quell allegations that Jewish employees endured harassment marks the biggest settlement the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ever reached stemming from alleged antisemitism, the EEOC said Friday.
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July 25, 2025
The Eighth Circuit on Friday breathed new life into a disability bias lawsuit against Union Pacific, finding that a carman who suffered brain hemorrhaging in an off-duty accident may have a case that the railroad discriminated against him based on theoretical future medical episodes.
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July 25, 2025
This week, a federal magistrate judge will consider a nursing home company's attempt to toss a proposed collective action brought by nurses who claim they were not paid overtime required by federal law, and a competing motion by the nurses to conditionally certify the collective action. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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July 25, 2025
A former field inspector for a Washington utility was awarded $5 million in emotional damages after a federal jury found his termination over his medical restrictions contravened state and federal prohibitions on disability discrimination.
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July 25, 2025
The city of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Police Department urged a California federal court Friday to grant them an early win in a proposed class action alleging the city didn't grant equal sick and vacation time to service members and wouldn't promote them because of their service obligations.
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July 25, 2025
A North Carolina federal court tossed a Black worker's religious and race bias suit claiming she was fired by a hygiene products company for opposing its COVID-19 vaccine, ruling her suit fell apart when she admitted in a deposition that refusing the vaccine was a personal choice.