A federal magistrate judge in Maryland reversed the Social Security Administration’s denial of disability benefits for a claimant with chronic depression, holding that the Administrative Law Judge improperly used normal objective medical findings to...
A federal judge in Maryland held that a registered nurse's claims that she was fired for refusing to let her employer misuse her nursing license to deceive regulators are sufficient to proceed under the Maryland Health Care Worker Whistleblower Protection...
A Maryland federal judge held that a federal veterinarian's complaint about a contractor employee's workplace conduct was within the scope of her employment, substituting the United States as defendant and extinguishing the contractor's defamation and...
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 national origin.
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.
A federal judge in Maryland allowed a deaf inmate's disability-accommodation claims to proceed against state prison officials while dismissing all claims against the facility's contracted medical providers.
A Northern District of Illinois judge granted summary judgment on most employment discrimination claims brought by two Black executives against McDonald’s USA, LLC, but allowed one retaliation claim by former Operations Officer Domineca Neal to proceed.
A federal judge denied Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart and Cook County's bid to dismiss a certified class action alleging that Division 9 of the Cook County Jail lacks the grab bars and mounted shower seats required for disabled inmates to use toilets and...
A federal judge in Washington has ordered a putative class action alleging systematic race discrimination against African American air marshals to be moved to Virginia, where both sides agree the case belongs.
A federal judge in Chicago refused to dismiss a Fourteenth Amendment excessive-force claim against a Cook County jail officer who allegedly punched a restrained pretrial detainee repeatedly in the head, while dismissing related claims against other officers...
The Middle District of Pennsylvania has denied a motion for reconsideration filed by the Mountain View School District, preserving a substantive due process claim brought by a student with intellectual disabilities who alleged the district placed her in...
A Middle District of Pennsylvania magistrate judge remanded a Social Security disability claim after holding that the Administrative Law Judge failed to incorporate or explain a specific one-to-two-step task limitation from a medical opinion the ALJ deemed...
A federal judge let stand excessive-force, assault, and battery claims against two Adams County Adult Correctional Complex officers while dismissing all claims against three other defendants, including the warden.
A federal judge in Pennsylvania refused to dismiss ADA and PHRA claims brought by a woman with intellectual and learning disabilities who alleges a Burger King franchisee turned her away after a single interview.
The Estate of Aaron Jimenez is suing New Mexico Department of Corrections officials and Wexford Health Sources, Inc. for medical negligence after Jimenez died from endocarditis following a twelve-day delay in hospital referral.
A federal judge in New Jersey has allowed a special education teacher’s claim that her employer interfered with her Family and Medical Leave Act rights to proceed, ruling that the school board’s failure to provide individualized notice of those rights...
The justices pressed both sides hard on whether the Fifth Amendment requires fair market value — not just auction proceeds — when a county seizes a home over a small tax debt.
A federal judge refused to reconsider his ruling that probable cause governs joint school-police searches of students, while also declining to strip qualified immunity from the Plainfield officials and officers who allegedly detained, searched, and...
A federal judge refused to dismiss most claims against the Little Rock School District and three school employees over the 2022 death of a severely disabled elementary student who, according to the complaint, suffered a seizure after staff allegedly failed...
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...