June 27, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that courts can't impose extra legal hurdles on majority-group plaintiffs in workplace bias cases, while the Second Circuit embraced a worker-friendly reading of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Here's a look at these and two other decisions from the first six months of 2025 that employment discrimination attorneys should know.
June 20, 2025
The first half of 2025 saw federal courts knock down key provisions of U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulations and guidance that aimed to safeguard pregnant workers and LGBTQ employees, but experts say the legal underpinnings of those policies are still intact.
May 16, 2025
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission exceeded its authority when it laid out its worker-friendly take on the U.S. Supreme Court's Bostock opinion, a Texas federal judge found, striking down parts of agency anti-harassment guidance that interpreted the landmark ruling's implications for gay and transgender workers.
November 21, 2024
The AFL-CIO, SEIU, American Civil Liberties Union, and several business groups and nonprofits have urged a Texas federal court not to scrap U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidance interpreting the U.S. Supreme Court's Bostock decision, arguing the guidelines provide critical advice on preventing workplace harassment.
November 14, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged a federal court to shoot down Texas' challenge to workplace harassment guidance the agency issued based on the U.S. Supreme Court's Bostock decision, arguing the state failed to demonstrate that the guidelines had caused them any harm.
October 23, 2024
Texas and a conservative D.C. think tank told a federal court Wednesday it should block the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from issuing workplace harassment guidance based on the U.S. Supreme Court's Bostock decision, arguing the agency repeatedly misconstrued the ruling and exceeded its authority.
August 16, 2024
Texas and a conservative D.C. think tank urged a federal court to scrap the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's recently updated guidance on workplace harassment, arguing that the federal bias watchdog misinterpreted the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Bostock decision when crafting the guidelines.