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January 31, 2025
McDonald's told a Tennessee federal court on Friday that it is revising its Latino scholarship program to get rid of requirements for applicants to be of Hispanic or Latino heritage, ending a lawsuit lodged by a group that had successfully sued Harvard University over its affirmative action policies.
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January 31, 2025
A New York federal judge Friday tossed an anti-abortion group's lawsuit challenging a New York state law that bars employers from penalizing workers for making certain reproductive health decisions, saying on the five-year anniversary of the case that the group lacked standing to assert its last remaining claim.
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January 31, 2025
A nonprofit formed by Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News anchor who has advocated against forced arbitration after suing the network's chairman for harassment, has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to consider a whistleblower's challenge to an arbitration award given to a medical device company in a trade secrets dispute.
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January 31, 2025
The Trump administration's Department of Transportation says it's not going to provide federal assistance to any states that don't comply with its efforts to deport as many people as possible or those that have vaccine or mask mandates.
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January 31, 2025
A New York sheriff's office and a corrections officer agreed to end her suit claiming she wasn't allowed to take lactation breaks following her pregnancy because of pregnancy bias, according to a federal court filing on Friday.
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January 31, 2025
A California state judge said Friday that he probably won't sanction SpaceX for supposedly missing a deadline to pay an arbitration retainer tied to a proposed class action accusing Elon Musk's aerospace company of underpaying women and minorities.
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January 31, 2025
President Donald Trump’s push to curtail diversity, equity and inclusion programs included an executive order that experts say contains evidence that the False Claims Act will be used against employers that don’t come to heel. Here's a look at three things employers should be aware of.
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January 31, 2025
The New York state corrections agency can't avoid a transgender former officer's lawsuit claiming he was forced out because of medical issues brought on by years of bullying from colleagues and supervisors, with a federal judge finding he'd filed his claims within the statutory time limit.
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January 31, 2025
A New York federal jury should weigh in on a former high-ranking Equinox employee's bias suit, the worker argued, saying the fitness company's argument that she was fired for her poor performance is bogus because its decision was rooted in its animus toward her need to care for her children.
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January 31, 2025
The en banc Eleventh Circuit will consider whether federal anti-discrimination law bars a Georgia county health plan from refusing to cover a worker's gender-confirmation surgery while the Second Circuit will hear from an NBA referee defending his win in a pension payout case.
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January 31, 2025
A case about broadband subsidies will give the U.S. Supreme Court the chance to revive a long-dormant separation of powers principle that attorneys say could upend regulations in numerous industries and trigger a power shift that would make last term's shake-up of federal agency authority pale in comparison. And a majority of the court already appears to support its resurrection.
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January 31, 2025
A dozen state attorneys general decried President Donald Trump's attempts to roll back diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility programs across the federal government, saying Friday his stance threatens decades of bipartisan work to combat discrimination and provide equal job opportunities.
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February 14, 2025
Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2025 editorial advisory boards.
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January 31, 2025
Philadelphia-based Reger Rizzo & Darnall LLP reached a settlement in a federal race and sex discrimination case filed last year by an ex-legal assistant, according to an order published Friday.
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January 31, 2025
In its latest leadership shake-up, Jackson Lewis PC has reelected its firm chair and managing principal for a second term, while also implementing a leadership restructuring that includes the reorganization of its practice groups and the appointment of several new national heads.
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January 31, 2025
A former paralegal at Thompson Coe Cousins & Irons LLP sued her ex-employer in Texas state court, alleging she was wrongfully fired because of her race and disability while also accusing the firm of sabotaging her attempts at obtaining future employment at other law firms.
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January 31, 2025
A former human resources employee at LegalZoom has hit the legal services company with a discrimination suit in Nevada federal court, alleging she was underpaid compared to her white colleagues doing the same work and retaliated against when she brought up her concerns.
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January 31, 2025
In the next week, attorneys should keep an eye out for rulings in a pair of cases against TikTok by workers. Here's a look at those cases and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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January 31, 2025
Discrimination claims that might conflict with President Donald Trump's executive orders, including one declaring that "sexes are not changeable," will now get kicked up to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's headquarters for review, an agency spokesperson confirmed Friday.
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January 31, 2025
A New York federal judge largely rejected TikTok's bid to toss a former executive's suit claiming she was pushed out of her job because of her age and gender, also ruling that a law barring sexual harassment disputes from arbitration keeps her claims in court.
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January 31, 2025
This week, the Second Circuit will consider a group of New York farmers' claim that a 2019 law that extended union rights to farmworkers in the state violates the U.S. Constitution.
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January 30, 2025
A New York federal judge on Wednesday refused to enter judgment for Merck & Co. in a Black former information technology director's suit alleging the company discriminated against him by firing him after he had a contractor removed from his project, teeing up the case for trial.
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January 30, 2025
Rapper Jay-Z has doubled down on his bid for sanctions against Texas attorney Tony Buzbee for filing a lawsuit accusing him of raping a 13-year-old with Sean "Diddy" Combs more than 20 years ago, saying the attorney has "weaponized" baseless accusations via social media and TV interviews.
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January 30, 2025
A Catholic high school and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia defeated a former principal's lawsuit claiming he was abruptly terminated because he was 60 years old and receiving cancer treatment, with a Pennsylvania federal judge saying his job included responsibilities that triggered a religious exception to anti-discrimination law.
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January 30, 2025
A Michigan state court hearing over a motion to compel and disqualify an attorney defending a care facility in a wrongful termination lawsuit devolved into a volley of insults Thursday as lawyers who say they have a history of difficulty with each other slung personal jabs.