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.
February 11, 2025
A trial court rightly dismissed the suit of a woman who alleged she was racially targeted and fired from her job at a Hyundai plant due to a discriminatory policy prohibiting dreadlocks, Hyundai told the Eleventh Circuit, urging the court not to revive the suit.
December 04, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Wednesday threw its weight behind a Black former worker at a Hyundai plant looking to revive race bias claims at the Eleventh Circuit, saying a trial court shouldn't have tossed her allegations that policies regulating dreadlocks amounted to discrimination.