The Tenth Circuit on Monday shut down, for the second time, a white former Colorado corrections officer's suit claiming he faced racist harassment and discrimination through a diversity training, saying he failed to show that the content alone caused him to face any severe mistreatment or abuse.
The Tenth Circuit on Monday shut down, for the second time, a white former Colorado corrections officer's suit claiming he faced racist harassment and discrimination through a diversity training, saying he failed to show that the content alone caused him to face any severe mistreatment or abuse.
Seattle-area hospital system Swedish Health Services will pay $86 million to settle a proposed class action claiming its alleged meal break violations and rounding practices led to unpaid wages, according to a state judge's preliminary approval of the deal.
A Federal Circuit panel questioned Monday whether an email mishap that kept a U.S. Department of Defense employee from timely appealing his furlough was the employee's fault, after the U.S. Supreme Court gave him the green light to continue his 13-year-old fight.
Grubhub has misclassified its delivery drivers as independent contractors and unlawfully collected their biometric data without consent, according to a proposed class action filed in Illinois state court.
A federal judge sanctioned New York City on Monday for its lethargic discovery responses in a proposed class action claiming a municipal health plan unlawfully blocked gay men from receiving in vitro fertilization coverage, ordering the city to reimburse the couple leading the suit for their efforts to obtain documents.
A Black Georgia attorney who sued the Chartwell Law Offices LLP in September, alleging she faced "systematic discrimination, harassment and retaliation" at her former firm, has notified the Atlanta federal court that the two sides have entered a tentative settlement to end her claims.
Four decades after high-stakes litigation firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan first opened in Los Angeles, founding partner John B. Quinn is stepping down as executive chairman of the firm effective immediately.
A benefits administrator and a security services company asked a Georgia federal judge to toss several claims brought by a remote worker who alleged she was discriminated against, denied benefits she was owed and denied lactation accommodations after returning from maternity leave.
An Alabama retirement and assisted living facility unlawfully excluded pandemic-related hazard pay from employees' overtime calculations, the Eleventh Circuit ruled, finding that the pay must be included in workers' regular rate under federal wage law.
A Connecticut federal judge on Monday appeared poised to order sanctions favoring a sushi chef in a proposed class action accusing a Fairfield restaurant of wage violations, criticizing the eatery's attorney for engaging as a purported consultant a client and manager of another restaurant the same chef is suing in New York.
Farmworkers accusing a harvesting company of luring them to the U.S. under false promises urged a Colorado federal court Monday to reject the company's attempt to undo sanctions, arguing its attorney's prolonged absence from the case did not constitute excusable neglect.
The U.S. Department of Labor will no longer pursue another appeal seeking to save a Biden-era rule that increased the salary threshold for white-collar overtime exemptions.
The Trump administration must continue facing claims that it overstepped its authority by attempting to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, with a Maryland federal judge saying a lawsuit brought by the NAACP and three unions is strong enough to survive the administration's dismissal motion.
A Kroger grocery delivery service violated federal labor law by preventing off-duty employees in Kentucky from soliciting for a Teamsters affiliate on company property, a National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled.
North Carolina's business court has refused to shield the CEO of biopharmaceutical firm United Therapeutics Corp. from being deposed in a trade secrets lawsuit against a former executive and his new employer, finding it reasonable to believe she was an "ultimate decision-maker."
A former counselor at a Pennsylvania juvenile justice facility has filed a lawsuit in state court alleging his ex-employer fired him in retaliation for reporting allegations of physical and sexual abuse against the residents.
The public transit agency for Boston and its nearby suburbs will pay $1.6 million to settle a negligent hiring and retention lawsuit by a passenger who was allegedly beaten by a bus driver with a known history of violence, according to a court filing.
The mother of a pedestrian killed in a collision is suing Uber Eats and Instacart, claiming both companies are liable for negligently hiring an unqualified 18-year-old driver who was allegedly making deliveries at the time of the crash without a driver's license and using an unregistered vehicle.
Upper Bucks County Technical School in Pennsylvania has asked a federal judge not to award a former administrator all requested legal fees and litigation costs or adjust his award for taxes after winning his suit claiming he was fired for criticizing a COVID-19 mask exemption policy.
The Fourth Circuit's recent holding in Thomas v. EOTech that employers cannot use contractual provisions to shorten statutory filing periods for Title VII or Age Discrimination in Employment Act claims offers a warning for employers to review any such documents and reassess their litigation risk, say attorneys at Ogletree.
While a New York federal judge’s recent ruling in U.S. v. Heppner resolved a privilege question surrounding client-side artificial intelligence use, it did not address how to mitigate the risks that can arise when confidential information enters the operative context of an AI system used by an attorney, says Jianfei Chen at Quarles & Brady.
When Jennifer Henricks and Kevin Peters first learned what was happening to tenured professors at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston a few years ago, they knew that what was at stake involved more than just a dispute over the terms of a contract.
DLA Piper has been hit with a federal civil rights lawsuit in Illinois from a former summer associate alleging discrimination, a hostile work environment and retaliation based on her identity as a Palestinian, Gazan, Arab and Muslim woman.
A former immigration judge urged a D.C. federal court not to throw out her bias suit challenging her firing, arguing the U.S. Department of Justice was pushing the "breathtaking proposition" that the president was empowered to commit unlawful discrimination.
A Texas federal judge on Tuesday said the court cannot force Texas Tech University's leaders to rescind a reprimand against a law student who allegedly celebrated following the death of Charlie Kirk, as the university has sovereign immunity.
Michigan's two Democratic senators played it coy on Tuesday when asked if they would support the district court nominee for their state that the president announced the night before.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it has reached a settlement with PayPal Inc. to end an investigation into what the department said was a discriminatory investment program for Black- and minority-owned businesses.
