November 19, 2025
An Eleventh Circuit judge expressed concern Wednesday over the jury instructions that led to a verdict of more than $800,000 for a former Hyundai plant security guard who challenged a workplace ban on her locs hairstyle, saying the way the jury was advised was not "harmless error."
November 18, 2025
The Eleventh Circuit is scheduled to hear arguments Wednesday in a race bias case over a workplace ban on locs, a legal battle that experts said could prompt the court to shed much-needed light on what it takes to bring a disparate impact discrimination claim.
October 29, 2025
The Seventh Circuit will weigh whether the U.S. Supreme Court’s Muldrow decision was properly applied in a letter carrier’s race bias case, and the Eleventh Circuit will hear a former Hyundai plant worker who wore dreadlocks defend an $800,000 jury verdict in a hairstyle discrimination suit. Here are four argument sessions that discrimination attorneys should keep tabs on next month.