July 02, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission launched a flurry of lawsuits and rescinded long-standing affirmative action guidance, while the University of Tennessee, Knoxville reached a tentative $1.9 million deal with a professor who said she was illegally fired for criticizing conservative commentator Charlie Kirk after his killing. Here, Law360 looks back at a short but active week in employment law.
July 02, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asked the Seventh Circuit on Thursday to correct a lower court's opinion tossing a Taiwanese doctor's race bias suit claiming he was bullied and forced to quit, stating it used outdated case law to find he didn't face any adverse employment actions.