March 12, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will pay $250,000 to wrap up a longtime employee's lawsuit claiming she was passed over for a leadership role, according to a filing in Louisiana federal court, just over a month after a jury trial ended without a verdict.
March 10, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission struck a deal to end a longtime agency employee's lawsuit claiming she was unlawfully passed over for a promotion, a month after jurors deadlocked over whether sex motivated the decision not to bump her up in the ranks.
February 10, 2026
A Louisiana federal judge has declared a mistrial in a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission employee's suit alleging she was unlawfully passed over for a promotion to full-time director of the agency's New Orleans field office, with court filings indicating that jurors stalemated over whether sex motivated the hiring choice.