A Southern District of Indiana magistrate judge has approved the collective action notice in an FLSA lawsuit against TLC House and Residential Services, LLC, resolving key disputes over class scope, statute of limitations, and communication methods.
A federal magistrate judge in Utah has ordered Davis County and its former chief to produce underlying documents regarding other sexual harassment complaints, rejecting the defendants' claim that such production would be unduly burdensome.
Dek: Robert Garvin alleges Masonic Village at Sewickley terminated him — and evicted him from his on-campus home — to rid its retirement community of the visible reminder of his wife's work injury and her advancing lawsuits against the facility.
A federal judge overruled an unopposed settlement approval motion because putative collective members had never received notice or a chance to join the suit.
A federal judge in Maryland denied Southwest Airlines' motion to dismiss a retaliation claim brought by a former ramp agent, allowing the employee's Family and Medical Leave Act suit to proceed while dismissing his disability accommodation claim.
A federal judge allowed a Black Honda employee's Section 1981 race-discrimination and retaliation claims to move forward while dismissing his state-law breach-of-contract counts.
A federal judge in Maryland dismissed an occupational therapist’s lawsuit over a denied raise during maternity leave, ruling that employers may defer conditional pay increases until an employee returns from Family and Medical Leave Act leave, provided the...
Judge Theresa L. Springmann dismissed a hostile work environment claim as duplicative but allowed a sex discrimination claim to proceed in a Title VII suit against Dyer Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.
A federal judge in Pittsburgh dismissed several claims against Wyndham Hotels and Resorts in a putative class action alleging human trafficking, RICO conspiracy, and race discrimination at franchised properties — but the case continues on other counts.
A federal judge in Miami dismissed a maritime employment-injury complaint against four cruise-industry defendants, citing impermissible shotgun pleading and defective service of process, but gave the plaintiff leave to amend.
A federal judge in Houston denied a motion to dismiss a Title VII pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed by a former scheduler at a high-end kitchen appliance retailer, ruling the plaintiff sufficiently alleged she was terminated rather than resigning.
A federal judge in Massachusetts refused to dismiss Title VII discrimination, retaliation, and Section 1981 claims against Bristol Myers Squibb, holding that a pro se plaintiff plausibly alleged constructive discharge, a hostile work environment, and...
A federal judge held that Brightline Trains Florida LLC, a privately owned intrastate passenger railroad, is a carrier subject to Railway Labor Act jurisdiction — not because it falls under Surface Transportation Board oversight, but because it operates...
BALTIMORE (LN) — A federal judge in Maryland granted summary judgment to Amazon.com Services LLC, dismissing a former operations manager's ADA and state disability discrimination claims after holding that Matthew Gennari could not perform the essential...
Angela Oleksa's Equal Pay Act and retaliation claims against Scott Leiendecker, the manager of election technology firm Know Ink, LLC, survived a motion to dismiss.
The Eastern District of Missouri has denied a motion to dismiss an Equal Pay Act and retaliation lawsuit against a professional employer organization, holding that the question of whether the entity qualifies as a joint employer is too fact-intensive for...
Judge Holly A. Brady held that Indiana’s Transportation Director violated a former bus driver’s due process rights by summarily revoking his state certification without a pre-deprivation hearing.
A federal court ruled that a police department's internal affairs sergeant had no authority under Florida's public records law to demand that two union-affiliated officers hand over personal text messages — but denied the officers' request for a temporary...
A federal judge held that genuine factual disputes over whether two bread distributors were employees of Flowers Foods and its subsidiaries must go to a jury, rejecting the company's bid to end the case as a matter of law.