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February 06, 2025
The Trump administration's illegal decision to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development has caused a global humanitarian crisis, cost thousands of Americans their jobs and threatens U.S. national security, groups representing federal employees and foreign service workers alleged in a federal lawsuit Thursday in Washington, D.C.
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February 06, 2025
A California state appeals court has reversed a ruling finding an arbitration agreement contained in a credit union's employment contract to be unconscionable, saying the JAMS rules incorporated in the pact permit an arbitrator to allow for necessary third-party discovery.
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February 06, 2025
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday establishing a U.S. Department of Justice task force to root out "anti-Christian bias" within federal agencies and prosecute vandalism and violence targeting churches and related religious organizations.
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February 06, 2025
A former Evanston, Illinois, employee shouldn't be allowed to go to trial on claims that he was fired for publicly expressing sympathy for Palestinians in Gaza because evidence clearly proves his performance is what cost him his job, city officials argued Wednesday.
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February 06, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice will consider bringing criminal and civil investigations against companies over their diversity, equity and inclusion policies, according to a new memorandum from Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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February 06, 2025
A group of transgender service members and a human rights organization sued the Trump administration Thursday in Washington federal court, asserting his executive order banning transgender people from serving in the military is discriminatory and unconstitutional.
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February 06, 2025
A former Teamsters business agent fell short of proving her exclusion from a slate of candidates in an officers' election constituted age discrimination, retaliation and wrongful discharge, a California federal judge ruled Thursday, tossing the complaint but giving the former business agent an opportunity to refile it.
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February 06, 2025
A former Cornell University professor settled his Title IX lawsuit against the school, the New Civil Liberties Alliance announced Thursday, ending a yearslong case in which the professor accused the school of sex bias linked to an investigation into a student's sexual misconduct allegation.
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February 06, 2025
The Tenth Circuit refused Thursday to reopen a former human resources worker's lawsuit claiming a Wyoming hospital accused her of being "manic" after she reported suspicions of unethical and illegal business practices, ruling her presuit discrimination charge didn't allege that the hospital considered her disabled.
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February 06, 2025
A former kitchen agent for Cresco Labs LLC is suing the cannabis giant in Illinois federal court, alleging she was wrongly fired after a workplace injury and was not afforded time off as required under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
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February 06, 2025
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs quietly removed years of policy directives, conciliation agreements and guidance from its website, following President Donald Trump's rescission of a 60-year-old legal authority the agency used to stop federal contractors from discriminating against workers.
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February 06, 2025
The Sixth Circuit zeroed in on nuances Thursday in a case brought by a physician's assistant who said she was unlawfully fired for refusing to use transgender and nonbinary patients' preferred pronouns, delving into various legal theories that might warrant keeping her religious bias suit out of arbitration.
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February 06, 2025
A solo personal injury attorney is suing his former firm in New Jersey state court alleging that he was discriminated against based on his Ecuadorian heritage and because of his requests for accommodations when he became a father.
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February 06, 2025
Rapper Jay-Z has dropped his sanctions bid against Texas attorney Tony Buzbee for filing a lawsuit that claims Jay-Z and Sean "Diddy" Combs raped a 13-year-old more than 20 years ago, accusations he has called "knowingly false."
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February 06, 2025
A Massachusetts federal judge on Thursday put on hold the Trump administration's "deferred resignation" program for federal employees, delaying the deadline for workers to accept the offer until Monday while the court weighs the legality of the move.
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February 05, 2025
Counsel for former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo faced a doubtful appellate panel Wednesday, who questioned whether the disgraced executive had jumped the gun in suing Attorney General Letitia James for records from the state's sexual harassment investigation against him that are still being reviewed and produced.
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February 05, 2025
A doctor and former genetics researcher at the University of Colorado sued the institution in Denver federal court on Tuesday alleging her supervisor created a "culture of chauvinism and misogyny" and that she was fired and badmouthed throughout the industry after complaining.
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February 05, 2025
The AFL-CIO, the Economic Policy Institute and four unions sued the U.S. Department of Labor and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency in D.C. federal court Wednesday, seeking a temporary restraining order to stop DOL leadership from complying with any attempt by DOGE to access DOL data.
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February 05, 2025
A Fifth Circuit panel peppered lawyers with questions Wednesday about corrective lenses and administrative procedures, delving into the process around what a colorblind BNSF Railway Co. conductor alleges was an unlawful discriminatory vision test.
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February 05, 2025
Michigan State University has settled allegations that its senior leadership fired the dean of the Eli Broad College of Business and intentionally defamed him in an effort to remove him from contention as a possible candidate for the university's next president.
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February 05, 2025
A financial and data analytics firm can't beat a former content editor's lawsuit claiming she was fired because she is a transgender woman in her 70s, a California federal judge ruled, saying a jury should weigh the company's explanation that her termination was part of broader cuts.
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February 05, 2025
Honeywell struck a deal with a Black former global marketing manager to close her suit claiming she was laid off after complaining that her white manager mistreated women and people of color, according to a Wednesday filing in North Carolina federal court.
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February 05, 2025
A former case manager sanctioned for faking evidence and the nonprofit mental health and addiction treatment center she accused of not paying full wages told a North Carolina federal court they agreed to end the case a month before the trial was set to start.
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February 05, 2025
Another front has opened in the messy legal drama over the movie "It Ends With Us," as an Austin-based public relations consultant filed a defamation suit in Texas federal court alleging Blake Lively falsely roped him into her headline-making sexual harassment and retaliation claims.
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February 05, 2025
A Georgia educator and the affluent Atlanta private school she sued over alleged racial discrimination by administrators agreed Tuesday to end their litigation after a federal magistrate judge previously recommended that her claims be tossed.