The Seventh Circuit will take on tricky employment discrimination questions in cases over vaccine requirements and recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent, while the Third Circuit will weigh in on a contentious equal pay fight and the Second Circuit will consider an attorney's fight to revive her bias case. Here's a look at four oral arguments that discrimination attorneys should keep tabs on in October.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged a Massachusetts federal court to force Harvard University to hand over information about its diversity and inclusion programs, calling the school's response to an agency subpoena "grossly deficient."
An en banc Ninth Circuit struggled Tuesday to understand a Washington-based Christian ministry's legal stance as it sought to preserve its ability to reject job applicants who are gay, with several judges suggesting it was immune from enforcement action since the state recognized the jobs as ministerial and therefore constitutionally exempt from anti-discrimination laws.