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 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...
The New Jersey Appellate Division held that an employee’s electronic assent to a mandatory arbitration agreement via the Workday onboarding portal constituted a valid and enforceable waiver of her right to a jury trial, reversing the trial court’s denial of...
A federal judge temporarily barred a trucking company from retaliating against truck drivers suing for unpaid wages after a driver was allegedly fired the day after the company filed its court response.
A federal judge in Western New York ruled that a 2025 amendment to the New York Labor Law does not preempt the Fair Labor Standards Act’s liquidated damages provision, preserving the statutory penalty for home-care workers alleging wage violations.
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.
BellSouth's own amended answer — not any dilatory motive by the plaintiffs — revealed that two AT&T affiliates, not BellSouth, had hired Bryant and DeMoss, opening the door to adding them as defendants.
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.
Workers at an Alabama assisted living facility won on hazard pay overtime but lost their family leave and retention bonus claims in a ruling that turned on what they put in their complaint and what Swope put in her resignation letter.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (LN) — A federal magistrate judge reduced plaintiffs' requested attorney rate from $650 to $425 per hour and ordered defense counsel to pay $5,780 in sanctions after EVO Transportation & Energy Services twice missed court-ordered...
The Fifth Circuit affirmed judgment against an IT contractor's ADA claims, holding that in-person attendance remained an essential job function despite the employer's pandemic-era telework policy.
A federal judge ruled that Colorado's Workers' Compensation Act shields Frontier Airlines from a flight attendant's gross negligence and fraud claims arising from a 2023 cabin fume event.
A federal magistrate judge refused to let a Burger King franchisor block four more hours of questioning of its chief operating officer in a Title VII class sexual-harassment case.
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.
A federal magistrate judge cleared the way for an electrician to replead dismissed ADA claims by adding facts about his employer's corporate structure.
A federal judge in Chicago denied Helia Healthcare Services' motion to dismiss a putative class action, holding that the company's bare denials of the allegations and improperly submitted extrinsic documents did not constitute a legal argument for dismissal.
Apple asked a federal judge to grant summary judgment on all four remaining retaliation and wrongful-termination claims brought by former employee Ashley Gjovik, arguing that undisputed evidence shows she was fired for leaking confidential Face ID...
A North Carolina municipality escaped liability under Section 1983 after the Fourth Circuit held that prior incidents of on-duty consensual sexual conduct by officers were too dissimilar to coercive assault to establish the deliberate indifference required...
A federal magistrate judge ordered Octapharma Plasma to produce contact information for all putative class members and payroll data for a 25% sample of employees, rejecting the company’s request for a Belaire-West privacy notice.