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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.
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April 04, 2024
The Fifth Circuit backed a jury verdict in favor of an oil pipeline company over allegations it fired a 64-year-old driver because of his age, rejecting the worker's claim that the district court improperly allowed potential jurors to be eliminated because they were Hispanic.
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April 04, 2024
Bravo, NBCUniversal and Warner Bros. have asked a Manhattan judge to toss a suit brought by a former "Real Housewives" cast member who claimed she was sexually assaulted while filming in Morocco, arguing her claims were filed in the wrong jurisdiction and past a one-year statute of limitations.
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April 04, 2024
The Eleventh Circuit declined to reinstate a Haitian former worker's suit accusing a Florida county's corrections department of removing him from his station after he reported managers for sexually harassing a female officer, saying his suit was filled with vague and immaterial facts.
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April 04, 2024
A filmmaker for ABC and Disney repeatedly ignored a multiracial development director's complaints that she was underpaid and eventually fired her for speaking up about bias and harassment she faced on the job, she said in a suit in California state court.
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April 03, 2024
The Ninth Circuit appeared hesitant Wednesday to revive a former live-in apprentice's disability bias suit against a Buddhist temple, with a panel suggesting that his maintenance duties didn't place him outside the scope of a ministerial exception to anti-discrimination law.
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April 03, 2024
The University of Michigan told a federal judge Wednesday that a law professor's need for medical leave did not mean administrators couldn't discipline her for allegedly walking out on certain teaching responsibilities, rebutting her claims that the university's actions were because of her race or gender.
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April 03, 2024
A community bank reached an agreement with a former senior vice president to end his age bias lawsuit accusing the bank of forcing him into a rigorous interview process and then replacing him with someone 20 years his junior, the parties told a Florida federal court Wednesday.
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April 03, 2024
BlackBerry swept away a former employee's allegations that an executive sexually harassed her and then fired her to make way for his ascension to CEO, according to a complaint filed Wednesday in California federal court.
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April 03, 2024
The Sixth Circuit backed the dismissal of two workers' claims that a children's hospital violated their constitutional rights when it rejected their religious objections to a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, saying Wednesday they failed to show the hospital was a government actor.
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April 03, 2024
The Second Circuit revived a Black former conductor's lawsuit claiming Metro-North fired him after a 2018 train collision while white workers involved were allowed to keep their jobs, finding on Wednesday that the trial court made assumptions that should have been left for later in the case.
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April 03, 2024
A Third Circuit panel seemed sympathetic Wednesday to an injured machinery worker who sued his former employer for disability discrimination but urged the parties to give mediation another shot, ending oral arguments by referring them to the court's chief circuit mediator.
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April 03, 2024
A pair of First Circuit judges on Wednesday suggested that an 80-year-old former Trader Joe's employee should have gotten the chance to bring her age discrimination claims to trial after she was fired for buying beer for her underage grandson.
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April 03, 2024
A New York federal judge refused to end a Black former New York Public Radio host's suit alleging she lost out on promotions for complaining about racial bias before being accused of plagiarism and quitting, ruling she put forward enough detail to keep the majority of her case in play.
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April 02, 2024
Rapper Ye, his companies and Donda Academy were hit with a discrimination suit in California state court Tuesday by a former employee who accuses Ye of threatening to cage students, spewing hateful rhetoric against Jewish people and the LGBTQ community, and treating Black employees far worse than white staffers.
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April 02, 2024
A Georgia federal judge has freed the city of Austell from a lawsuit brought against it by its former police chief, who alleged that he was forced out of his job after three years of raising concerns about the safety of department facilities.