An Illinois federal judge refused to toss a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging a flooring company allowed a gay employee to endure frequent harassment that included co-workers tying him to a chair, ruling the suit had enough detail to stay in court.
An Indiana school district struck a deal to end a suit from a Christian former music teacher who said requiring him to call transgender students by their preferred names violated his religious beliefs, about six months after the Seventh Circuit revived the case.
Two Second Circuit judges expressed oftentimes conflicting interpretations of the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act during a case hearing Friday, engaging in a lengthy debate hinged on what claims the arbitration shield can keep in court.
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An Illinois federal judge refused to toss a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging a flooring company allowed a gay employee to endure frequent harassment that included co-workers tying him to a chair, ruling the suit had enough detail to stay in court.
An Indiana school district struck a deal to end a suit from a Christian former music teacher who said requiring him to call transgender students by their preferred names violated his religious beliefs, about six months after the Seventh Circuit revived the case.
Two Second Circuit judges expressed oftentimes conflicting interpretations of the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act during a case hearing Friday, engaging in a lengthy debate hinged on what claims the arbitration shield can keep in court.
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January 27, 2026
The Connecticut General Assembly's House Republican Office on Tuesday urged a state court judge to issue quick wins on a former Republican press secretary's discrimination and retaliation claims, saying neither an adverse employment action nor discipline occurred before the aide took an approved medical leave and resigned.
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January 27, 2026
Tyson Foods Inc. shouldn't dodge a proposed class action accusing the company of flouting meal and rest break requirements and not paying workers correctly, a worker told a Washington federal court Monday, arguing that she supported her claims well enough at this stage of the litigation.
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January 27, 2026
A former New Jersey state court judge urged a federal court to reconsider the dismissal of her federal civil rights claims against a municipality and its police director, arguing that the court wrongly imposed an excessive evidentiary bar and misread a record of constitutionally deficient internal affairs investigations.
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January 27, 2026
A former Wells Fargo director has asked the Fourth Circuit not to scrap his $22.1 million Americans with Disabilities Act verdict, arguing the bank failed to address one of his state law claims on appeal and can't rewrite how the jury weighed conflicting evidence and testimony.
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January 27, 2026
A split Third Circuit panel reinstated a religious bias suit claiming Geisinger Medical Center illegally required workers who opposed its COVID-19 vaccine mandate to undergo nasal testing, saying the employees should have been allowed to explore whether a chemical in the nasal swabs made that accommodation unreasonable.
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January 27, 2026
A Second Circuit panel appeared split Tuesday on whether an anti-abortion group challenging a New York state law that bars employers from penalizing workers based on their reproductive health decisions has standing to challenge the law as unconstitutional.
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January 27, 2026
A key House Democrat warned that policy shifts by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission are taking the agency in the wrong direction, calling out the rescission of harassment guidance, an about-face on disparate impact enforcement and a call for white men to lodge bias claims.
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January 27, 2026
Massachusetts' top appellate court ruled Tuesday that a former employee of a Boston community college was entitled to whistleblower protections for reporting that the college had not told the U.S. Department of Education about an alleged sexual assault, even though he shared in the reporting responsibility.
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January 27, 2026
A Jack in the Box franchisee will pay $50,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sexual harassment suit claiming the business stood by while a male general manager masturbated in front of female workers and groped them on the job.
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January 26, 2026
A former high-ranking director at Citigroup says she was "debased and humiliated" by false workplace rumors that she pursued sexual relations with a superior in order to secure a promotion, alleging in a lawsuit filed in New York federal court on Monday that persistent misogynistic culture at the investment bank forced her out of a job.
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January 26, 2026
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters urged a D.C. federal court to dismiss a former employee's suit alleging she was subjected to a hostile work environment and forced to resign due to her age and disability, arguing that a release in a separation agreement she signed "unambiguously covers" her claims.
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January 26, 2026
A Black ticketing staffer for the Tampa Bay Lightning has faced retaliation and a hostile work environment because of his race, he alleged in a federal lawsuit against the hockey team's ownership group.
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January 26, 2026
A McDonald's franchisee in Oklahoma has agreed to pay $80,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit accusing it of failing to remove a manager who sexually harassed and threatened to rape a female teenage employee, according to an Oklahoma federal court filing.
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January 26, 2026
An Illinois federal jury sided with the Chicago Transit Authority on Monday over a former employee's claim that he was illegally terminated for noncompliance with the agency's COVID-19 vaccine mandate after the agency flatly rejected his religion-based exemption request without meaningfully trying to accommodate it.
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January 26, 2026
A New Jersey state appeals panel ruled Monday that despite a valid arbitration pact, a worker who said security logistics company Brink's failed to take action when colleagues called her gendered slurs may still be entitled to her day in court.
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January 26, 2026
A Chicago federal judge on Monday denied Foley & Lardner LLP's bid for an early win against claims brought by a former summer associate who said discrimination led to the firm's decision to rescind a job offer after she publicly supported Palestinians amid Israel's war with Hamas.
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January 26, 2026
D.C.-based government software contractor Opexus is facing a class action alleging that its negligence allowed two former employees — both of whom had been convicted for hacking previously — to copy more than 1,800 U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission files onto USB drives and take the data.
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January 26, 2026
A former California judge said a count of a federal indictment accusing him of sexual assault should be tossed since the alleged victim viewed him as a friend.
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January 26, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review a Federal Circuit decision upholding the removal of a Georgia-based Social Security judge who was accused of on-the-job misconduct and shoddy work.
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January 23, 2026
The attorneys general of Texas and Florida each issued missives denouncing a plethora of diversity, equity and inclusion-related laws and private initiatives, and the U.S. Department of Education dropped an appeal over the invalidation of DEI-related guidance. Here, Law360 looks at notable DEI-related legal developments in the first month of 2026.
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January 23, 2026
A Black longtime employee of the New Jersey Education Association has been paid less than her colleagues because of her race, she told a state court.
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January 23, 2026
U.S. Department of Justice alumni and a group that includes attorneys, law professors and former judges have filed briefs supporting former Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey's call for a New York federal court to reject the DOJ's bid to dismiss a suit over her firing.
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January 23, 2026
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for a summary judgment hearing in a former BlackBerry Corp. executive's discrimination and harassment suit. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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January 23, 2026
Safeway and a United Food and Commercial Workers local must face an ex-cashier's claims that discrimination played into the store's hostile treatment of him and the union failed to adequately fight for him, with an Oregon federal judge preserving most of the pro se litigant's suit.
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January 23, 2026
This week, the Second Circuit will consider whether to revive a discrimination suit a former worker for a Service Employees International Union benefit fund brought claiming the fund fired him after refusing to accommodate a disability that prevented him from driving for long periods of time.