A federal jury has cleared the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill of wrongdoing in a Black former graduate student's lawsuit alleging she was booted from her Ph.D. program because of her race after she complained of discrimination internally.
A federal jury has cleared the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill of wrongdoing in a Black former graduate student's lawsuit alleging she was booted from her Ph.D. program because of her race after she complained of discrimination internally.
A Florida personal injury firm misclassified a paralegal and other workers as independent contractors, denied them overtime and fired the paralegal after she complained, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court.
A Michigan county sheriff can't escape a former civilian employee's suit accusing him of sexually harassing her for years and then firing her after learning she had an audio recording of his alleged advances, as a federal judge found Thursday there are factual disputes yet to be resolved.
Starbucks Corp. has agreed not to use race- or sex-based goals in hiring and promoting its employees and to not "participate in any organizations that require increasing the racial diversity of its board of directors" as part of a settlement with Florida's attorney general, according to an announcement made Thursday.
New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday urged workers who know about "dangerous" or potentially unlawful conduct by companies in their development of artificial intelligence technology to report their concerns to the state.
A Michigan federal judge has tossed an employment discrimination suit brought by a Black former Eastpointe Community Schools worker who claimed the district repeatedly passed her over for promotions and later denied her a COVID-19 relief bonus because of her race.
A Colorado childcare center asked a federal court to dismiss a former director's pregnancy discrimination suit, arguing she failed to exhaust her legal remedies on several claims and that allegations concerning her high-risk pregnancy do not establish a disability under federal law.
A former manager for USA Hockey Inc. alleged in Colorado federal court that the organization discriminated against him after he had been seriously injured in a car accident by revoking his disability work accommodations without explanation and later terminating his employment.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit Thursday against a Maryland-based healthcare nonprofit and one of its acute care facilities, claiming they violated disability bias law by pulling a job offer due to a candidate's heart condition.
A Georgia federal judge awarded four former workers for a hearing aid company $105,000 in unpaid wages and other damages after finding the company and two executives liable for failing to pay them for weeks of work.
A technology company has brought a Florida federal lawsuit accusing its former executives of quitting and running off with its trade secrets, alleging they went on to form a business that builds a competing web browser with stolen computer code.
Eight new members have been appointed to a key federal health task force that determines which preventive healthcare services insurers must cover, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday.
Texas appellate judges seemed skeptical Thursday of a Dallas businessman's claim that the Texas Business Court doesn't have jurisdiction over his multimillion-dollar suit against Ross Perot Jr., saying the money at stake seems to make the case a fit for the Business Court.
Crowell & Moring announced Thursday that it has hired a former Ballard Spahr lawyer to join its labor and employment group, bringing years of experience handling wage-and-hour class actions and other complex employment-related issues on behalf of some of the biggest companies in the country.
The Ninth Circuit's recent dismissal of a securities fraud class action against SunPower is the latest in a growing line of cases addressing whether, if ever, a company's risk factor disclosures can give rise to potential liability, an area where the law remains unsettled, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.
The Senate voted 49-45 on Thursday to confirm Kasdin Miller Mitchell, a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, to serve as a U.S. district judge for the Northern District of Texas.
As executives at leading artificial intelligence companies increasingly assert that their own technology could one day pose an existential threat to humanity, a natural question follows: If the risk is real, can anyone sue to stop it before disaster strikes?
A prominent Massachusetts criminal defense attorney best known for representing Lindsay Clancy has been accused in a separate case of "abandoning" a client who is serving life sentences for second-degree murder and home invasion, allegations the lawyer denies.
Misuse of artificial intelligence tools and a "state-of-the-art" revamp of electronic dockets in federal cases were among the hottest topics Thursday at a major meeting of judiciary leaders, who also heard a lawmaker warn of eroding trust in the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Federal Trade Commission has ditched its historical multimember, multiparty ethos for a one-party regime in which fewer dissents might make it easier for Chairman Andrew Ferguson to pursue his agenda, but it also forecloses the potential "moderating influence" that comes with winning broad buy-in from commissioners of two parties.
An immigration attorney and her firm asked a New York federal judge to sanction the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to reasonably investigate an allegedly bogus unregistered securities claim it brought against them in an EB-5 immigrant investor case.
Plaintiffs suing over the Trump administration's once-proposed "anti-weaponization fund" are telling a Virginia federal judge to reject the U.S. Department of Justice's objections to a magistrate judge's discovery order, accusing the administration of stonewalling their requests and urging prompt discovery production.
