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 in Nashville has transferred an employment-discrimination lawsuit against the managing contractor of Oak Ridge National Laboratory to the Eastern District of Tennessee, where the alleged misconduct occurred.
A federal court denied class certification of forced-labor and discriminatory-housing claims brought by Filipino B-1 visa workers against Gulf of Mexico oil-field contractor Grand Isle Shipyard, ruling that individualized questions of coercion and consent...
A federal judge denied a preliminary injunction to an Oregon property owner who says a 2025 county ordinance wiped out her right to operate an adult residential care facility for people with disabilities.
A federal judge in Texas denied the University of Texas Medical Branch’s motion to dismiss a deaf doctoral student’s failure-to-accommodate claim under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, ruling that the university’s alleged conduct plausibly...
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 dismissed the equitable claims but preserved the money-damages suit brought by a White Hall, Alabama bingo operator against state Attorney General Steve Marshall, ruling that Younger abstention bars federal interference while the state...
The Supreme Court heard argument in a capital case testing whether a Mississippi trial judge's failure to conduct the third step of a Batson inquiry — and his repeated assurances that the defense's objection was already in the record — can be treated as a...
A federal judge held that four former Boston Police Department officers are shielded by qualified immunity from a wrongful-conviction lawsuit brought by a man whose two first-degree murder convictions were vacated after more than two decades in prison.
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...
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 in Alabama held that a hospital supply employee's account of a year of unwanted touching, threatening comments, and appearance-based remarks by his female supervisor did not clear Title VII's hostile-work-environment bar.
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 on days he used that...
A federal judge denied Dollar General's bid to dismiss a hostile work environment claim brought by a former store employee who alleged her supervisor made repeated sexual advances and racially disparaging comments about her Black husband and biracial children.
A federal judge denied a motion to dismiss claims that The Center for Internet Security fired an employee after his supervisor allegedly grew hostile toward his anxiety, depression, and back-injury accommodations — but the ruling turned entirely on...
A federal magistrate judge has allowed both the alleged victim and the three accused student-defendants to proceed under pseudonyms in a civil lawsuit arising from a 2022 sexual assault and hazing incident during a private school hockey tournament.
A Maryland federal court granted summary judgment to a jail nurse accused of ignoring a pretrial detainee's shoulder injury, while an excessive-force claim against the arresting officer remains alive.