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April 22, 2024
Guns N' Roses lead singer Axl Rose has asked a New York state court to throw out a former Penthouse model's civil suit claiming he sexually assaulted her in a hotel in the late 1980s, arguing that the interaction was consensual and calling the claim "salacious, inflammatory and false."
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April 22, 2024
A former senior medical affairs director for Johnson & Johnson's research unit sued the company on Friday in New Jersey state court, alleging she was fired in retaliation for a separate lawsuit filed years earlier in which she named a boss from her prior employer who had recently joined Johnson & Johnson.
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April 22, 2024
The North Carolina Department of Justice urged a federal court to take its side in an attorney's lawsuit alleging she faced discrimination at the agency for being a Black woman, arguing that the white man who got the job for which she'd interviewed was the most qualified candidate.
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April 22, 2024
A Washington federal judge seemed to doubt Monday that the University of Washington went too far when it removed a professor's political statements from his syllabi, noting that the comments were disruptive because they caused students to drop the mandatory course.
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April 22, 2024
The Sixth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of an Ohio public service commissioner's bias suit alleging he was swept up in a round of layoffs because of his older age, ruling Monday that the city showed COVID-19-related budget concerns drove its decision-making, not prejudice.
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April 22, 2024
With its budget passage Saturday, New York became the first state in the U.S. to implement paid leave for pregnant employees to attend doctors' appointments, expanding its paid sick time requirements to create a new bank of up to 20 hours for this purpose.
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April 22, 2024
The Ninth Circuit reopened a NASA scientist's lawsuit Monday claiming supervisors made disparaging comments and denied him work opportunities after he informed them about his debilitating hip and spine conditions, ruling a lower court was wrong to find no connection between the alleged harassment and his disabilities.
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April 22, 2024
A Massachusetts federal jury handed a $100,000 win to a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs employee in her lawsuit alleging she was forced to find a new role after her supervisor repeatedly hugged and kissed her without consent and blocked her exit from his office.
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April 22, 2024
An IRS employee told an Iowa federal court Monday that her supervisor groped her and made a sexually degrading comment about her during a meeting but that the agency "has done nothing" to protect her, despite an investigation concluding the harassment had likely occurred.
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April 22, 2024
Despite originally declining to recuse himself from a surgeon's gender discrimination case against Thomas Jefferson University Hospital when an attorney from his son-in-law's firm, Cozen O'Connor, became involved, U.S. District Judge Michael M. Baylson changed his mind now that the case is set for a retrial.
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April 22, 2024
Ohio's Hocking College has settled a discrimination lawsuit filed by the mother of the first college football player with Down syndrome to score during a game, following accusations his former supervisor at the student recreation center threatened him with a knife.
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April 22, 2024
A Georgia pesticide maker has denied all wrongdoing after being hit with a U.S. Department of Labor complaint earlier this year that accused the company of firing a whistleblower who complained about her exposure to dangerous chemical fumes.
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April 22, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up a former Hewlett Packard employee's challenge to a Fourth Circuit decision finding he wasn't entitled to a jury trial over allegations that he was fired for seeking accommodations to treat an arthritic toe.
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April 22, 2024
A Virginia school district defeated a math and science teacher's suit claiming the school refused to let her temporarily teach remotely after being diagnosed with a respiratory illness, with a federal judge finding parts of her job required her to be at the school.
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April 22, 2024
Cannabis company Trulieve has reached a deal with a Black former manager to end his suit alleging he was fired after reporting a supervisor's sexual misconduct and several safety violations, according to a filing in Florida federal court.
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April 22, 2024
Republic Airways fired a pilot because he wore an earring to work in violation of a company appearance policy that unlawfully discriminates against workers based on gender expression, the pilot told a New York federal court Monday.
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April 22, 2024
State legislatures around the country are winding down legislative sessions that began in January, bringing newly enacted employment laws into effect in the coming months. From child labor to pay inequality to mandatory overtime, Law360 looks at five state laws that employers will have to comply with.
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April 19, 2024
A Wells Fargo bond saleswoman sued the bank Friday in Illinois federal court, accusing it of sex discrimination by creating "an unapologetically sexist working environment" and passing her up for promotions despite her years of experience in the investment banking world.
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April 19, 2024
The Virginia Department of Corrections must face a gender bias suit alleging it made workers strip naked after body scans flagged their contraceptive devices or menstruation products, a federal judge found Friday, saying the agency's actions appeared to target women.
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April 19, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's newly finalized regulations implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act restrict the paperwork employers can request from pregnant employees seeking accommodations, limitations experts say could catch businesses off guard. Here are three things companies and workers should keep in mind about the regulations.
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April 19, 2024
A New York hospital system must face an ex-worker's lawsuit alleging he was fired after refusing to get a coronavirus vaccine because of his atrial fibrillation, with a federal judge saying Friday he adequately showed the company refused to consider the bulk of medical exemption requests.
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April 19, 2024
A California federal judge declined to toss a disability bias lawsuit brought by HIV or AIDS patients alleging CVS Pharmacy Inc. made their medication harder to get, saying federal regulations and even an internal company study warned that the program at issue was potentially problematic.
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April 19, 2024
A former Houston-area paramedic is accusing a county emergency services provider of pushing her out of her job after she was sexually harassed even though she wasn't the one who reported the harassment.
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April 19, 2024
A U.S. Supreme Court might have changed the arbitration landscape in suits involving California's Private Attorneys General Act, but Wedbush Securities Inc. still waited too long to try pushing out of court financial advisers' claims, a California state appeals court ruled.
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April 19, 2024
Quest Diagnostics has been sued in Pennsylvania federal court by a former phlebotomist who said she faced racial discrimination from patients and retaliation from management when she complained.