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August 19, 2025
A former Union Pacific railroad worker who said he was pushed out over a shoulder injury can keep his $27 million jury award, an Oregon federal judge ruled, attributing the bulk of the recovery to a state law claim that wasn't limited by federal damages caps.
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August 19, 2025
The Trump administration is wielding the False Claims Act in unusually narrow ways to drive policies on social and cultural issues — including gender-affirming care and diversity, equity and inclusion programs — but the government's potential theories of liability under the federal law remain largely untested and might not hold up in court, experts say.
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August 18, 2025
A split Ninth Circuit panel on Monday largely upheld a lower court's refusal to preliminarily block Oregon's requirement that recipients of certain youth grants agree not to discriminate on the basis of religion, though it also said the rule is unconstitutional if it restricts any initiatives that aren't tied to the grants.
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August 18, 2025
A Texas federal judge on Monday stayed a challenge to the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act after the Fifth Circuit ruled in a separate case that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission could enforce the law.
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August 18, 2025
Colorado's top law enforcer has said he's unhappy with the way the federal government has ushered through major telecom and media mergers after only locking down concessions on diversity, hiring and news coverage.
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August 18, 2025
The Ninth Circuit on Monday affirmed a district court's decision to grant summary judgment to the Regents of the University of California in an age discrimination suit brought by a medical residency applicant, holding that selecting medical residents is an employment practice not covered by the Age Discrimination Act.
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August 18, 2025
An Arkansas federal jury sided with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on claims that a metal stamping company fired three workers for complaining about sexual harassment, but handed out modest recoveries, with two of the workers walking away with only $2 each.
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August 18, 2025
A top U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission official recently chided three federal agencies for not being more flexible with religious and postpartum workers seeking job adjustments, a move experts say demonstrates the hard line the EEOC is adopting on employers' accommodation obligations which courts will likely echo.
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August 18, 2025
A public relations manager has sued the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks for discrimination in Illinois federal court, saying he was fired for complaining about criticism he received from his department for doing an interview with a LBGTQ+ media outlet about his experience as a gay man in sports.
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August 18, 2025
For the second time this month, Stone Hilton PLLC has asked a federal court to trim a former employee's lawsuit, saying her allegations of sexual harassment and intentional infliction of emotional distress do not rise to the level of "severe or pervasive" or "extreme and outrageous" as the law requires.
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August 18, 2025
A sports bar chain told a North Carolina federal judge Monday that it has agreed to pay $1.1 million to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming the company refused to hire men for front-facing staff positions.
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August 18, 2025
Goldberg Segalla LLP announced Monday that it has grown its employment and insurance services in New York with the recent addition of two attorneys who moved their practices from Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP and Clyde & Co. LLP.
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August 18, 2025
New Jersey on Friday asked a state court to award it a victory over some claims by a former workers' compensation judge that she was unconstitutionally removed from her job after similar claims in a separate suit of hers were rejected in December.
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August 18, 2025
A healthcare facility in Ohio will pay $5,000 after a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation found reasonable cause to believe it violated federal law by firing an employee because of her race, the agency said.
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August 18, 2025
A federal judge threw out a disability bias suit from the U.S. Department of Justice claiming Alabama's transportation agency wouldn't hire an applicant because of a former shoulder injury, ruling the case fell flat because the government failed to show he was actually disabled.
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August 18, 2025
A property management company terminated an accountant three days before she was scheduled to return to work following gallbladder surgery, telling her the job was being outsourced when in reality her duties were assigned to other employees, she said in a suit filed in Ohio federal court.
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August 15, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice told a New Hampshire federal court Friday that employers are not required under federal anti-discrimination laws to provide medical coverage for gender dysphoria, and that federal religious freedom law protects a turbomachinery company from covering a transgender employee's treatment for the disorder.
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August 15, 2025
The Trump administration said a Massachusetts federal judge who didn't vacate a decision barring certain staffing cuts at the U.S. Department of Education is showing "disregard" to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, calling it an "affront" to the high court's authority.
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August 15, 2025
An Alabama federal judge refused to block a state law that seeks to curtail diversity, equity and inclusion programs in educational settings, and the Trump administration settled two suits that challenged the use of race in admissions decisions at the U.S. Air Force Academy and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Here, Law360 looks at notable DEI-related legal developments from the past week.
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August 15, 2025
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was wrongly blocked from enforcing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act against the state of Texas, the Fifth Circuit ruled Friday, saying the U.S. Constitution didn't require House lawmakers' physical presence to have a quorum when the statute was approved.
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August 15, 2025
A Fifth Circuit panel won't reinstate a white police officer's claim that his race motivated the department's decision not to promote him to captain, holding Friday that the Louisiana State Police put forth a nondiscriminatory reason for promoting a pair of nonwhite candidates.
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August 15, 2025
A divided D.C. Circuit panel on Friday reinstated a retired federal worker's discrimination lawsuit against a government workers union, with the majority pushing back on arguments that the allegations must be funneled through a special administrative process outside the courtroom.
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August 15, 2025
The former head of U.S. Bank's artificial intelligence efforts has sued the bank, arguing he was subjected to a biased investigation, replaced by less-qualified white employees and had a new job offer rescinded after defamatory statements by bank employees, in retaliation for reporting race and religion discrimination.
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August 15, 2025
The Fourth Circuit shot down a former assistant public defender's effort to revive her sexual harassment suit against the federal judiciary, finding Friday that her belief that the judiciary's internal complaint process was unfair, leading her to quit, was not reasonable.
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August 15, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a case challenging federal layoffs that paid a visit to the U.S. Supreme Court. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.