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April 01, 2024
Tesla can't put off or dodge a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging the carmaker allowed rampant racism to overtake a California factory, a federal judge has ruled, saying parallel state court cases can't resolve the agency's claims.
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April 01, 2024
A barbecue restaurant agreed Monday to pay $56,500 to resolve a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accusing it of firing a female worker who complained she was being doggedly pursued by a male shift leader, according to a filing in Georgia federal court.
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April 01, 2024
Attorneys with disabilities and a disability rights advocate can proceed with a proposed class action aimed at forcing accessibility improvements at several Michigan courthouses and government buildings, a Michigan federal judge ruled Saturday, rejecting the state's argument that it was immune from the suit.
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April 01, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit declined Monday to reinstate a former Miami-Dade County firefighter's lawsuit alleging male managers gave her extra work, called her sexist slurs and then fired her because she's a woman, saying the trial court was within its power to exclude evidence she sought to introduce.
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April 01, 2024
A Christian postal worker who claimed he was unlawfully punished for seeking Sundays off should lose his religious bias case under the standard the U.S. Supreme Court set when it revived his case in 2023, a letter carriers union told a Pennsylvania federal judge.
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April 01, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission doesn't have to pay a Georgia hospital's attorney fees after jurors found in favor of the medical center on disability bias claims, a federal judge ruled, saying the jury's siding with the hospital didn't make the agency's suit frivolous.
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April 01, 2024
Carlton Fields PA has added a labor and employment attorney from Stearns Weaver Miller as of counsel in its Tampa office, the firm announced Monday.
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April 01, 2024
The New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts has gotten out of a lawsuit from a municipal court administrator alleging she was sexually harassed by a former municipal court judge, arguing that the woman was never an employee of the office.
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April 01, 2024
A New York federal judge has partially dismissed an employment discrimination suit against a State Island law firm, nixing discrimination and retaliation claims brought by a Black former office manager while allowing claims over the firm's allegedly hostile work environment to proceed to trial.
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April 01, 2024
A metal engraver asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the dismissal of his claims that a silversmith fired him because he's over 40 and had carpal tunnel syndrome, arguing the Ninth Circuit prevented him from sufficiently presenting what's left of his case to a jury.
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April 01, 2024
The Second Circuit will hear a case that could help determine the scope of the federal Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, while fitness company Equinox and supermarket chain Trader Joe's will square off with workers looking to revive discrimination suits. Here, Law360 looks at six oral arguments to keep an eye on this month.
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April 01, 2024
A former teacher and the Ohio school district she accused of forcing her to resign after she refused to use the preferred names and pronouns of her transgender students each filed briefs urging a Buckeye State federal judge to grant them early wins.
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April 01, 2024
Amazon's stated commitments to disability inclusion are a sham, a California worker with cerebral palsy claimed in a proposed class action, saying the company gave him a warehouse gig despite his many warnings that he couldn't meet the job's physical demands.
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April 01, 2024
A California federal judge placed the final stamp of approval on an $18 million settlement that ends an age discrimination suit alleging tech company HP Inc. unlawfully pushed out hundreds of older workers under the guise of a workforce reduction plan.
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April 01, 2024
A New Jersey city's lawsuit demanding clarity over whether state or federal law governs off-duty pot use for cops could help cannabis and employment lawyers navigate a growing battle between workers' rights and workplace safety.
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March 29, 2024
A Utah attorney has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to determine whether allegedly retaliatory IRS summonses can be quashed, and two former pharmaceutical executives are challenging the constitutionality of their convictions for marketing the off-label use of a drug. Here, Law360 looks at recently filed petitions that you might've missed.
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March 29, 2024
The University of Akron defeated a lawsuit alleging it targeted two finance professors for layoffs during the pandemic because one is Black and one is Asian, with an Ohio federal judge ruling Friday that the academics relied on faulty statistical analysis to back up their claims.
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March 29, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit reinstated a discrimination suit against the U.S. Army by a Black speech pathologist who alleged her colleagues steered white patients away from her and that her supervisor treated her too harshly, ruling a reasonable jury could find that racism tainted the supervisor's decisions.
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March 29, 2024
A 2-year-old Supreme Court ruling disavowing the special rules judges apply to arbitration contracts was at the heart of a recent Sixth Circuit decision to keep an employment discrimination battle in court, a result experts said is a harbinger of the significant impact the justices' opinion will have.
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March 29, 2024
In the coming two weeks, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a pair of cases involving the ministerial exception. Here's a look at those cases and other labor and employment matters coming up in California.
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March 29, 2024
In the coming week, a New York federal judge will hear arguments over whether to issue sanctions against a clothing store for not responding to discovery requests in a lawsuit brought by a former sales associate who claims she was unlawfully denied overtime and minimum wage.
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March 29, 2024
A Pennsylvania man with more than two decades of experience in the pharmaceutical industry claims he was denied a job after testing positive for amphetamines, even though he notified the Garden State company that he was on medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, in violation of New Jersey's Law Against Discrimination.
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March 29, 2024
A Missouri federal judge declined to throw out harassment and retaliation claims from an Orthodox Jewish worker who claimed a university unlawfully fired her after her supervisor yanked her leave to observe the High Holidays, but the judge said she failed to link her termination to religious discrimination.
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March 28, 2024
UMG Recordings has asked a New York federal court to free it from a producer's suit claiming he was sexually assaulted and harassed while working on Sean 'Diddy' Combs' latest album, slamming the suit as riddled with "knowingly false allegations" that publicly smear the music company.
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March 28, 2024
A former New York electrical worker and union rep can't sue the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for firing him after a return-to-work drug test found evidence of marijuana use, as the union never raised the alarm about such drug tests before, a New York federal judge has ruled.