The EEOC announced a consent decree requiring PepsiCo to pay $270,000 and overhaul its software accessibility practices to resolve allegations that the company fired a blind employee rather than accommodate his disability.
PepsiCo to Pay $270,000 in EEOC Disability Discrimination Suit
FedEx agreed to pay $280,000 and provide additional relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
FedEx to Pay $280,000 in EEOC Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
A federal judge in North Carolina held that a hotel owner plausibly qualifies as an employer under Title VII, the ADA, and the FMLA — even though a separate management company handled day-to-day HR — because the owner allegedly took...
Fendel v. Shreeji Hotel Group, LLC
A federal judge held that a Black probationary faculty member's Title VII claims against Lincoln Land Community College plausibly allege race discrimination and retaliation, but dismissed the First Amended Complaint without prejudice to...
DeCarlo v. Lincoln Land Community College
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...
GARVIN v. MASONIC VILLAGE AT SEWICKLEY
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...
Curry, Jr. v. Southwest Airlines Co.
A federal judge granted summary judgment to Syracuse University after a custodian alleged the school punished him for taking intermittent FMLA leave to care for his husband's anxiety and depression by barring him from attending classes...
Barbuto v. Syracuse University
A federal judge dismissed all discrimination claims brought by a former New York state juvenile-facility employee but gave him 30 days to file an amended complaint.
McNeill v. Office of Children and Family Services
Judge Roslyn O Silver of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona denied Costco Wholesale Corporation’s motion for summary judgment in a Title VII lawsuit brought by Sarah Hansen Colwell, a Black pharmacist of Middle Eastern...
Colwell v. Costco Wholesale Corporation
A federal judge in Arizona held that a former State Farm claims team manager failed to raise triable issues on her Title VII race discrimination and retaliation claims, granting the insurer summary judgment on all counts.
Brown v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
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.
Brusher v. Southgate Lincoln, LLC
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...
Kanas v. G. Ghannam DDS, P.C.