A federal judge in Manhattan removed paragraphs detailing the ancient history of Israel from an employment discrimination suit, ruling the content had no bearing on claims of religious or national origin bias.
A federal judge in Utah allowed a Peruvian-born woman’s discrimination claim to proceed against the University of Utah, rejecting the school’s motion to dismiss allegations that she was ejected from a basketball game based on her national origin.
A federal judge in Pennsylvania allowed a server’s Title VII sexual orientation discrimination claim to proceed, but dismissed his retaliation count for failing to exhaust administrative remedies.
A federal judge ruled that Sheriff Thomas Dart cannot be held personally liable for a correctional officer’s termination because the officer’s complaint failed to allege that the Sheriff personally participated in the disciplinary decision, even though his...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief opposing a U.S. Department of Justice subpoena seeking medical records related to gender-affyming care for minors, arguing the request relies on a...
The Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment to the City of Eugene, ruling that plaintiffs lacked Article III standing for a pre-enforcement First Amendment challenge to park rules, but reversed the denial of leave to amend...
The City of New York must pay plaintiffs’ fees and expenses for discovery misconduct in a civil rights lawsuit challenging the city’s denial of IVF benefits to gay male employees, U.S. District Judge Jeannette A. Vargas ruled Monday.
A federal judge ruled that Cook County is liable under Section 1983 for its deliberate indifference to constitutional violations in its property tax sale system, finding the county knew its policy of withholding excess equity from homeowners was unlawful...
A federal judge ruled that Oregon counties face takings claims for keeping surplus proceeds from tax-foreclosure sales without compensating former property owners, rejecting the counties' argument that state law left them no choice.
Two women say their trafficker called one hotel "his stomping grounds" — and that staff there knew exactly why.
A prisoner at Angola who says guards led him into a wall while he was blinded and handcuffed could not point to precedent close enough to defeat qualified immunity, the majority ruled.
A federal judge held that Cook County waived its res judicata defense by twice declining to raise it, allowing a longtime public health nurse to proceed with her age-discrimination and FMLA claims.
A federal judge in Houston dismissed all claims brought by a former remote outreach worker who alleged she was fired in retaliation for requesting a disability accommodation days after returning from surgery.
A man held in a rural Upper Peninsula jail hanged himself with an electric fan cord four days after his arrest, but his repeated denials of suicidal feelings defeated his estate's civil rights claims.
A federal judge held that Wyoming, Michigan, violated a resident's First Amendment rights by permanently banning him from its public Facebook page — but shielded the two officers who sought his arrest warrant from liability.
A federal judge in the Western District of Kentucky refused to dismiss most of Riquel Logan's civil-rights lawsuit against Nelson County Sheriff Ramon Pineiroa and Deputy Chief Brandon Bryan, allowing her Monell and individual-capacity Section 1983 claims...
A divided panel split over whether a child's halting, one-word answers in a closed-door interview were enough to invoke the Hague Convention's narrow age-and-maturity exception.
A federal judge ruled that eight commercial property owners may pursue Fifth Amendment takings and First Amendment retaliation claims against the City of Kingston, New York, over the demolition of a historic 1,700-foot colonial-revival canopy attached to...
Two sex trafficking survivors have cleared a motion to dismiss against major hotel operators and franchisors, including Choice Hotels and Marriott, under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act.
A federal judge dismissed a fired police dispatcher's Title VII and Equal Protection claims, ruling that her comparator evidence was too thin and her pretext arguments failed to connect to gender discrimination.