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April 05, 2024
"Vanderpump Rules" alumnus Faith Stowers sued NBC, Evolution Media and Bravo for discrimination and retaliation in California state court Friday, alleging she was threatened with legal action when she tried to speak up about the ill-treatment she suffered during taping, including racist slurs and having a knife brandished at her.
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April 05, 2024
An adult entertainment store can't avoid a suit alleging it favored transgender employees and fired a cisgender male sales clerk for minor infractions, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled, rejecting the retailer's argument that the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Bostock decision didn't apply to the case.
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April 05, 2024
FuboTV Inc. has resolved a lawsuit alleging the streaming company demoted and then fired a producer for taking 12 weeks of paternity leave while rewarding men who didn't take time off for a child's birth, the company and former employee told a New York federal court.
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April 05, 2024
The Ninth Circuit declined to revive a lawsuit from an attorney who said the Social Security Administration put workers over 40 at a disadvantage by steering job postings to younger candidates, ruling she hadn't shown that the SSA's actions had a disproportionate impact on older workers.
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April 05, 2024
A school district asked a Pennsylvania federal judge Friday to toss or at least decertify a collective action alleging it paid male teachers more than women who had similar experience, arguing that the workers couldn't show they had enough in common to justify a group action.
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April 05, 2024
A federal contractor settled claims that it slammed the brakes on hiring a naturalized citizen after finding out that she was not born in the U.S., the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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April 05, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor joined a U.S. Department of Justice pledge to enforce civil rights and related federal laws in the use of automated tools like artificial intelligence.
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April 05, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge has denied attorney fees after undoing a $15 million verdict won by a surgeon who alleged that Thomas Jefferson University exhibited anti-male bias in investigating a medical resident's sexual assault claims against him, ruling a new trial was necessary.
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April 05, 2024
Workers' social media posts on hot-button issues like the Israel-Hamas war and race relations are increasingly playing a role in hiring and disciplinary decisions, creating some of the toughest quandaries employment lawyers say they've ever faced.
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April 05, 2024
Reger Rizzo & Darnall LLP has been sued in Pennsylvania federal court by a former firm legal assistant alleging racial and sex discrimination, and claiming that a hostile, harassing and retaliatory work environment caused her to leave her job.
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April 05, 2024
The Supreme Court of North Carolina has a stacked calendar heading into spring arguments, from an appeal over Black-owned properties targeted for demolition to a law firm's attempt at dodging defamation claims over allegations of voter fraud.
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April 05, 2024
A former office worker for trucking company Schneider National Carriers Inc. says in a lawsuit filed Thursday in Massachusetts state court that the company changed his job description to include a daily yard check that he was unable to perform due to service-related disabilities, failed to provide a reasonable accommodation and then fired him.
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April 05, 2024
The State Bar of Wisconsin has erased a legal challenge related to its diversity clerkship program following a revision of its definition of diversity, though the federal case will continue over dues collections.
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April 05, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit has refused to reinstate a worker's suit accusing an auto parts manufacturer of firing him because of his gastrointestinal issues, saying he couldn't rebut the company's argument that he was fired for falling asleep at work.
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April 05, 2024
This week, the Second Circuit will consider a dental hygienist's challenge to a New York federal judge's decision to order a new trial over sexual harassment claims against her former employer that resulted in a jury awarding her $1 in damages. Here, Law360 explores this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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April 05, 2024
The Atlanta Braves were hit with an Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit Thursday alleging the team turned down an IT director candidate because it was reluctant to accommodate his deafness.
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April 05, 2024
A mental health clinic in Washington state agreed to pay $95,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charge alleging it fired a therapist for asking to be relieved of a job responsibility that clashed with her religious beliefs, the federal bias watchdog said.
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April 04, 2024
A recent U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruling that a federal employee didn't face religious bias when he wasn't allowed to skip a civil rights training contains valuable insight for private employers about how the commission will apply a year-old religious accommodations test from the U.S. Supreme Court. Here, management-side experts discuss three takeaways from the EEOC's opinion and analysis of the Supreme Court's ruling in Groff v. DeJoy.
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April 04, 2024
A Black Muslim Stanford University lecturer said the school refused to renew his contract after he discussed the Israel-Hamas war in class and had students take part in a profiling and policing simulation, despite him being cleared of wrongdoing.
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April 04, 2024
The Second Circuit declined Thursday to reinstate a CUNY college maintenance supervisor's suit alleging he was denied promotions and remote work for taking time off to undergo a kidney transplant, ruling that he didn't show the institution's decision making was driven by bias.
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April 04, 2024
A challenge to an Illinois law mandating that many temporary workers receive equivalent benefits to long-term employees has been stayed, as a federal court allowed the state to appeal an order preliminarily blocking the statute.
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April 04, 2024
A former vice president with the Arizona Cardinals and two family members have filed a defamation suit in Arizona state court against the NFL team, its owner and the public relations company and law firm they retained, following the ex-VP's $3 million award in a defamation grievance against them with the league.
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April 04, 2024
An artificial intelligence company and a former employee agreed to end her suit alleging she was unlawfully laid off because she is a Hispanic single mother with post-traumatic stress disorder who complained that the company was "cooking the books," according to a filing in California federal court.
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April 04, 2024
Former workers at an upscale Detroit hotel suing over their firings urged a Michigan federal judge on Wednesday to sanction the club and disqualify its attorneys at Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP, alleging it is likely they helped withhold documents and try to intimidate witnesses.
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April 04, 2024
Newly formed Pierson Ferdinand LLP has added a high-stakes employment litigator to its Philadelphia office from Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP.