( July 7, 2026, 12:42 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Permitting an interlocutory appeal on the viability of the disparate impact claim under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) in a case over artificial intelligence-based hiring discrimination where the ADEA collective was already provisionally certified, discovery is ongoing and an amended complaint has been filed would not “materially advance the ultimate termination of the litigation,” a federal judge in California ruled, denying the motion for certification of an interlocutory appeal filed by the defendant, a human resources management and applicant-screening services company....