A G G Equipment Company agreed to pay $4.25 million to settle an EEOC lawsuit alleging it unlawfully fired dozens of workers for refusing a COVID-19 vaccine without considering religious or disability accommodations.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled that the Bureau of Indian Education unlawfully discriminated against three federal employees by denying their requests for religious accommodations to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
BOSTON (LN) — The Service Employees International Union filed a 14-page document in its lawsuit against named officials in federal court in Boston, though the disposition of the filing remains unknown.
Plaintiffs allege they were recruited as children to endure brutal conditions and forced labor at Shen Yun’s New York estate.
A $1.776 billion fund to redress claims of government weaponization was established by the Justice Department as part of a settlement in President Donald J. Trump v. Internal Revenue Service.
A federal judge in Indiana ruled that Indiana University did not act in bad faith when it failed to preserve a student’s anonymous sexual assault kit, email accounts, and building access logs, denying the student’s motion for sanctions.
The New Jersey Appellate Division upheld a $1.4 million verdict against the Monroe Township Board of Education, ruling that a single-issue jury verdict sheet was sufficient to support a finding of liability for student-on-student sexual orientation...
A federal judge in the Central District of California has ordered plaintiff Deondre Raglin to show cause why the court should not decline supplemental jurisdiction over his state law claims, requiring him to disclose his litigation history to determine if...
A federal judge dismissed a photojournalist’s civil rights claims, ruling that officers had arguable probable cause to arrest him for criminal trespass during a protest at Georgia State University.
A federal judge in Arizona ordered immediate implementation of a health-care staffing plan for segregation units, rejecting defendants' arguments that the mandates exceeded the scope of the Prison Litigation Reform Act.
A federal judge ruled that the Civil Rights Act of 1960 does not require states to preserve statewide voter registration lists, limiting the Justice Department’s authority to inspect only the individual applications voters submit.
U.S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik ruled Thursday that intervenor-defendants in a Washington Voting Rights Act case lack Article III standing to seek relief from a court-drawn remedial map, denying their motion to vacate the judgment.
A federal judge in Connecticut denied Aetna’s request to pause a preliminary injunction requiring the insurer to cover gender-affirming facial reconstruction for two doctors, ruling the insurer failed to show it would suffer irreparable harm or a...
A federal judge in Los Angeles denied post-trial motions in a municipal corruption lawsuit, preserving a $1.6 million fraud verdict against a former city attorney and clarifying that public entities cannot be held directly liable for common-law negligence...
A federal magistrate judge in Tennessee rejected the City of Knoxville’s argument that the mayor’s official duties shield her from discovery in a lawsuit alleging she orchestrated the shutdown of a bar owner’s business in retaliation for his political speech.
A federal judge in Ohio has approved a consent judgment that prohibits the Olentangy Local School District from enforcing its anti-harassment policies against students who refer to peers using pronouns consistent with their birth sex. The settlement...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta released a report Friday detailing worsening conditions at immigration detention facilities, citing a 162% surge in detainee population and six deaths since September 2025.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta released a report detailing severe overcrowding, inadequate medical care, and six deaths at state immigrant detention centers during a surge in federal detentions.
A federal judge in Springfield allowed a Black professor’s race discrimination and retaliation claims to survive a motion to dismiss, ruling that his allegations of selective audits and tenure denial were sufficient to state a claim, though he must amend...
A federal judge in Houston has limited discovery to qualified immunity issues and quashed a plaintiff's subpoena to the Houston Police Department, ruling the requests were so overbroad they could not be reformed.