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.
A federal judge in San Diego denied in part a motion to dismiss by defense contractor Shield AI, allowing a former employee’s federal whistleblower and military discrimination claims to move forward.
A federal judge in Chicago allowed notice to be sent in a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action against Allied First Bank, ruling the bank failed to prove its employees met the salary basis test for overtime exemption.
A federal judge in New Jersey allowed two new plaintiffs to replace the original class representatives, keeping alive a Title VII disparate impact suit over Walmart's criminal background screening practices.
A federal judge denied Shelby County’s motion for summary judgment in an Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit brought by a former deputy jailer, finding genuine disputes over whether the county engaged interactive process and whether suitable job...
A former Novartis compliance officer who alleged she was investigated, demoted, and ultimately fired for flagging kickback schemes had her claims dismissed on timeliness grounds — a ruling the appellate panel has now reversed.
A federal judge held that ambiguity in Anchor Glass's own attendance policy raises a jury question about whether the company used a paperwork dispute as cover to shed a disabled employee.
Menzies Aviation agreed to pay damages and overhaul its accommodation policies after the EEOC alleged it forced an employee to quit for requesting Sabbath leave.
A federal judge ordered the Gallup-McKinley County school board to explain why its lawsuit challenging an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation should not be merged with two related enforcement actions.
A federal judge conditionally certified a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action against a Syracuse waste hauler, but limited the group to full-time drivers at one facility and denied requests for email, text, or workplace notices.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleges the news publisher passed over a white male editor for a promotion in favor of a less-qualified non-white woman to meet diversity goals.
A federal judge allowed a former D.C. Housing Authority police officer’s employment discrimination claims to proceed after he alleged he was fired based on false sexual assault accusations motivated by his sexual orientation.
A federal judge denied summary judgment in an employment discrimination case involving a former Sam’s Club tire technician with sickle-cell anemia, allowing his ADA and FMLA claims to proceed to trial.
A Topeka police captain who filed a sex discrimination lawsuit against the city now alleges it turned around and weaponized internal investigations against her in retaliation.
A Maine man with an incurable blood cancer sued his utility for refusing to waive the monthly charge to keep an analog meter, but his case failed when his treating physicians were excluded as untimely expert witnesses, leaving the record without...
A debt-collection firm's firing of a subrogation saleswoman during her probationary period survives challenge under both the ADA and the ADEA.
A Manhattan federal judge refused to dismiss a crisis-communications firm from Blake Lively's lawsuit alleging a coordinated campaign to damage her reputation after she complained of sexual harassment on set, holding that California's Fair Employment and...