March 26, 2026
A recent First Circuit ruling backing a civil engineering firm's win in a bias suit provided important clues on how a performance improvement plan could run afoul of the law in light of a worker-friendly U.S. Supreme Court ruling from 2024, attorneys say. Here, Law360 looks at four takeaways from the First Circuit's decision.
March 16, 2026
The First Circuit refused to reopen a former information technology employee's age bias lawsuit, rejecting her argument that the U.S. Supreme Court's Muldrow decision meant that putting her on a performance improvement plan was significant enough to be the basis for a discrimination case.