Cynthia Marie Hairston’s racial discrimination and retaliation claims against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill survived a motion to dismiss, allowing her employment lawsuit to proceed.
The Ninth Circuit reversed a district court’s refusal to certify a class of former employees suing Jack in the Box Inc. over unpaid wages for interrupted meal breaks, holding that Oregon law required the fast-food chain to pay workers for shortened...
Southern District of New York Judge Jesse M. Furman granted conditional certification of a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action against Pio Pio, a chain of Peruvian restaurants, resolving procedural disputes over the scope of notice and the integrated...
The Eastern District of California has consolidated two wage-and-hour class actions against Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc., adopting the lead case's schedule and directing that all future filings occur under the lead docket number.
A Western District of Wisconsin judge denied qualified immunity to a St. Croix Falls police officer on claims that he allowed a police dog to continue biting a subdued suspect and retaliated against a bystander for protected speech.
The Sixth Circuit vacated a district court order allowing discovery to proceed before ruling on a police officer’s qualified immunity motion, holding that such a deferral is only permissible if the court first finds a genuine dispute of material fact.
A skilled nursing facility operator tried to kill a wage-and-hour class action by attaching pay stubs and a timekeeping memo to its motion — documents the court refused to read.
A federal judge in Chicago refused to dismiss a putative class action accusing a skilled nursing facility operator of deducting thirty minutes a day from workers' paychecks after the company's two-page motion failed to substantively challenge the...
Judge Andrea R. Wood denied New Choice Intervention’s motion to dismiss most of Brianna Jackson’s Americans with Disabilities Act claims, allowing her discrimination, failure-to-accommodate, and retaliation counts to move forward.
A federal judge in Florida has denied a motion to dismiss racial discrimination claims brought by a former receptionist against AFC Urgent Care, while granting dismissal of her disability and retaliation claims because the employer lacked knowledge of her...
The Middle District of Florida has granted conditional certification in an FLSA collective action brought by former service technician Adam Gahrmann against Thompsongas, LLC, resolving the initial hurdle for the wage claim.
Smiths Detection Inc. agreed to pay $100,000 and provide significant remedial relief to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
A Ninth Circuit panel affirmed a jury verdict for a former Idaho National Laboratory security officer fired over his prescription opioid use, rejecting the contractor's argument that the firing was a national security decision immune from judicial review.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said tire manufacturer The Carlstar Group, LLC has agreed to pay $300,000 and adopt new accommodation policies under a five-year consent decree resolving allegations that it denied opportunities to Tennessee...
The D.C. Circuit on April 18 affirmed the Secretary of Labor's authority to cite KC Transport, Inc. for safety violations at an off-site trucking maintenance facility, holding that the shop and the haul trucks it services fall within the Federal Mine Safety...
A federal judge in California denied Carl's Jr.'s motion for partial summary judgment, allowing a former crew member's claims of disability discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination to proceed to trial.
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California denied Franklin Resources' motion to dismiss breach-of-fiduciary-duty claims, allowing plaintiffs to proceed with allegations that the company loaded the Franklin Templeton 401(k) Retirement...
A published Fourth Circuit decision holds that Merrill Lynch's WealthChoice Award program — a deferred cash bonus paid to select high-performing financial advisors after eight years of continued employment — is a bonus plan exempt from ERISA, not a covered...
A federal judge denied BNSF Railway's motion for summary judgment in a whistleblower retaliation case brought by a carman who says he was fired after reporting that an outbound train had not been properly tied down.
A North Carolina federal court has ruled that a statutory provision governing federal law enforcement hiring ages operates as a statutory carve-out from the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, meaning agencies need not separately justify maximum entry-age...