A federal judge in the Southern District of Ohio authorized notice to a class of Ohio production workers who allege Abbott Laboratories failed to pay them for time spent donning protective equipment before their shifts, while rejecting two separate...
A federal judge held that a two-year gap in alleged harassment bars a Michigan auto dealership employee from tying earlier sexual assaults to later sex-discrimination claims under the continuing-violations doctrine.
U.S. District Judge Terrence G. Berg of the Eastern District of Michigan denied a motion to dismiss in Kanas v. G. Ghannam DDS, P.C., ruling that a cancer-stricken orthodontist properly exhausted administrative remedies for both disability...
The Eastern District of New York has denied a request by the New York State Nurses Association for emergency injunctive relief against the Brooklyn Hospital Center, ruling that the union failed to demonstrate a sufficient likelihood of subject matter...
Judge Nusrat J. Choudhury denied ProHEALTH Care Associates LLP’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff Kristine Chevannes’s retaliation claims under Title VII and the New York State Human Rights Law, finding sufficient evidence of pretext regarding her...
A federal magistrate judge in Brooklyn allowed a fired Catholic teacher to bolster her religious-accommodation lawsuit against the New York City Department of Education with deposition testimony that the agency denied every single religious exemption...
A federal judge conditionally ordered remittitur of up to $16,820 in overtime damages won by four landscaping workers whose trial testimony about 2019 employment contradicted or exceeded what their complaint alleged.
A federal judge in San Diego dismissed all employment-discrimination claims brought by a longtime Walmart associate who alleged supervisors bullied him, passed him over for management, and punished him with a job reassignment.
A federal judge conditionally certified a collective action brought by San Diego firefighters who allege the city systematically excluded a paramedic certification bonus from their regular rate of pay when calculating overtime under the Fair Labor Standards...
A San Diego federal judge has frozen a putative class action alleging California Labor Code violations by Becton, Dickinson and Company and TechDigital Corporation, finding that a substantially similar state court class action filed roughly 20 months...
A Southern District of California judge has paused a putative class and PAGA representative action accusing Assurance IQ and Prudential Financial of misclassifying insurance agents as independent contractors, citing a near-settled parallel state court case...
A Northern District of California judge has allowed a minor’s Title IX and Section 1983 equal protection claims to proceed against a public school district and its Director of Student Services, rejecting arguments that the district lacked control over...
A federal judge has set a June 2026 jury trial for an Uber driver who claims Bakersfield police officers tackled him, struck him with batons, and knelt on his neck and back during an encounter outside a nightclub — injuries he says included a fractured...
A federal labor agency says a new state law signed by Governor Kathy Hochul conflicts with ninety years of exclusive federal jurisdiction over private-sector labor disputes.