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July 01, 2026
A payroll software company illegally fired an employee who asked for accommodations after co-workers' food triggered her severe allergy to onions, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a suit.
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July 01, 2026
One of the owners of a Florida pizza chain made vulgar comments about female workers while the company ignored their complaints, forcing one employee to quit, according to a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit.
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June 30, 2026
Actress Blake Lively says she racked up more than $8 million in legal fees and expenses in her battle with her "It Ends With Us" costar Justin Baldoni, litigation she characterized as a "holy war" waged by Baldoni and his studio's financier, whom she accused of "scorched-earth" tactics designed to drain her resources.
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June 30, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued a Piggly Wiggly operator in Georgia federal court on Tuesday, accusing the grocer of denying a religious accommodation to a deli worker that would have allowed her to observe Sunday Sabbath.
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June 30, 2026
A Washington federal judge Monday dealt a blow to President Donald Trump's efforts to restrict federal funds going to cities and counties that promote diversity programming and "gender ideology," ordering the administration to temporarily halt enforcement of two executive orders in several U.S. cities and counties.
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June 30, 2026
An employment lawsuit argued Tuesday in Pittsburgh could raise questions of a joint employer's obligation to investigate and oppose alleged racial bias by another employer, but a federal judge said the claims were obscured by "a bunch of fog" and sharply challenged the plaintiff's lawyer to state the case more clearly.
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June 30, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a pair of national origin discrimination suits Tuesday as part of a wave of new enforcement actions, accusing a supermarket chain of illegally favoring Chinese workers and alleging that a group of commercial cleaning providers refused to hire American workers.
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June 30, 2026
A federal judge tossed Tuesday a Native American professor's suit claiming the University of North Carolina declined to renew his contract because he was a vocal critic of the institution, ruling he failed to rebut UNC's argument that he lost his job for changing course material without permission.
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June 30, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued an auto dealership chain in Georgia federal court Tuesday, alleging it fired a sales employee after refusing to excuse him from Saturday work because of his religious beliefs.
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June 30, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board backed a decision rejecting a challenge to the results of a union representation election at a Trader Joe's store in Chicago, finding that the alleged actions of an employee and filmmaker before the vote didn't constitute "objectionable" conduct that justified setting aside the election results.
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June 30, 2026
The Second Circuit declined Tuesday to reinstate a former bank manager's suit claiming JPMorgan Chase Bank fired her because she was from Trinidad, saying what she alleged were her boss' complaints about her accent weren't enough to overcome the company's argument that performance issues caused her termination.
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June 30, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued FedEx on Tuesday alleging blind employees in a North Carolina facility were unlawfully denied accommodations to help them work, including floor tactile tape for navigation, screen reading software and an audible employee time clock.
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June 30, 2026
A Texas appellate court on Tuesday said the state's free speech law frees Covington & Burling LLP and the National Women's Soccer League from a defamation suit brought by a former Houston Dash coach over his inclusion in a report detailing purportedly abusive conditions in the sport.
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June 30, 2026
The Ninth Circuit will consider a California law that bars employers from penalizing workers who refuse to attend meetings on religious or political topics, while the First Circuit will evaluate whether JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s use of an artificial intelligence-infused interview platform to screen job applicants amounted to an unlawful lie detector exam. Here, Law360 looks at four oral arguments for discrimination lawyers to keep an eye on.
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June 30, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Tuesday it has rescinded several decades-old guidance documents relating to voluntary workplace affirmative action plans, concluding the previous positions were out of step with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
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June 30, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has removed data on LGBTQ+ discrimination from its webpage tracking charge filings year over year, continuing the agency's retreat on policing sexual orientation and gender identity bias under the Trump administration.
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June 30, 2026
Cannabis giant Ascend Wellness Holdings Inc. is urging an Illinois federal court to throw out claims from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that a class of unnamed women employees faced constant sexual harassment, saying the complaint is too vague for the company to be on notice for what it has to defend against.
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June 30, 2026
A Missouri federal jury found a St. Louis University-affiliated hospital owes a former doctor $6.8 million in damages after finding she was retaliated against and fired for complaining that a male doctor made patient care errors and mistreated her on the job.
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June 29, 2026
A Black former driver for a concrete company alleges in a suit filed Monday in Georgia federal court that he was fired after complaining that a colleague called him a racial slur and taking leftover concrete from a job even though he got approval from management to do so.
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June 29, 2026
Workplace retaliation charges hit a record high in the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's last fiscal year, continuing a long-running upward climb that experts said was aided by the U.S. Supreme Court's 2006 decision relaxing the rules governing these allegations.
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June 29, 2026
A Seventh Circuit panel on Monday affirmed the dismissal of a former nanny's suit accusing "Sandman" author Neil Gaiman of sexually assaulting her while in New Zealand, finding the dispute should be heard in that country rather than Wisconsin where he currently lives as a lawful permanent resident.
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June 29, 2026
A Georgia federal judge has greenlighted a $99,000 deal JCPenney reached with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to wrap up a suit claiming the department store chain fired a worker for taking time off for chemotherapy sessions, the agency announced Monday.
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June 29, 2026
An Eastern Michigan University interior design professor has sued the university and its board of regents in Michigan federal court, alleging the school systematically paid female faculty less than similarly situated male professors and then refused to correct the disparity after she sought a salary adjustment.
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June 29, 2026
The city of Baltimore and two academic groups have dropped their constitutional challenge to two Trump administration executive orders that sought to cancel diversity, equity and inclusion-related government grants, stating they were content with a Fourth Circuit ruling that clarified the "narrow scope" of the president's directives.
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June 29, 2026
The rapper formerly known as Kanye West has reached a settlement-in-principle with a former assistant who accused him of sexually harassing her by sending her inappropriate and profane texts and by forcing her to watch him masturbate, attorneys for the parties told a Los Angeles judge Monday.