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April 08, 2024
A school-choice nonprofit must offer to reinstate an employee who was fired after telling co-workers she believed her supervisor was racist, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, reconsidering the case after the board used the dispute to hold federal labor law protects worker advocacy for nonemployees.
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April 08, 2024
Seyfarth Shaw LLP has expanded the labor and employment department in its Dallas office after opening the office late last year, bringing on a former longtime Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP partner to serve as its founding L&E partner in the North Texas city, the firm announced on Monday.
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April 08, 2024
Three doctors urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a case challenging Michigan State University's vaccine mandate after the Sixth Circuit backed the suit's dismissal, arguing that the circuit court should have applied a stricter standard when considering whether the government could interfere with patients' medical decisions.
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April 08, 2024
The Denver sheriff's department promoted three women between 2019 and 2021 while skipping over a more qualified sergeant and his colleague because of a self-imposed quota for female officers, according to a complaint filed in Colorado federal court.
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April 08, 2024
A financial services firm abruptly fired a sales producer without any investigation after a female colleague who wanted him gone made false accusations about him, the producer said in a suit filed in Texas federal court.
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April 08, 2024
Two insurance underwriting syndicates hit back at a London claim from an international hospitality group that wants to be indemnified for two putative class actions alleging sex discrimination against men and nonbinary people at a California nightclub.
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April 05, 2024
Sean "Diddy" Combs and his son, Christian Combs, were sued Thursday in California state court by a woman alleging the younger Combs sexually assaulted her aboard a yacht while she was working as a stewardess, and that there is an audio recording of part of the incident.
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April 05, 2024
A University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley assistant tennis coach has accused the school in federal court of letting her go after a "sham investigation" because she is gay.
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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.