A worker fired after telling HR he reported witnessing a male colleague pursue a female coworker cannot be pushed into arbitration, the court ruled in a case of first impression under a 2022 federal law.
A federal judge let a former safety coordinator's race discrimination case move forward after concluding the plaintiff had shown good cause to amend outside the scheduling-order deadline and that the liberal amendment standard of Rule 15 favored resolving...
A New Mexico federal judge refused to let Bam! Pizza Management pause a class action over vehicle expense reimbursements while it appeals a ruling that the FLSA requires employers to cover drivers' actual costs — not a rough estimate.
A Connecticut federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the Bureau of Prisons of terminating a union contract covering roughly 30,000 members in retaliation for the union's opposition to Trump administration budget cuts.
A federal judge has certified a class of Missouri wage claimants against a commercial landscaping company that has classified all of its field workers as exempt from overtime since its founding in 1989.
A former cloud architect who alleges his supervisor told him he could no longer use his anxiety disability as an excuse gets a second chance to serve his ADA and state-law claims properly.
A federal judge reversed course and voided a Georgia-law arbitration clause that would have forced a Washington warehouse worker to pursue his claims alone.
A utility worker fired in 2018 may have been misled by the state civil rights agency into believing she had already done everything the law required.
An Illinois appellate panel has ruled that a government contractor accused of sharing employee fingerprint data with a third-party payroll vendor cannot invoke the Biometric Information Privacy Act's government contractor exemption unless the alleged...
A Connecticut federal judge let stand the core discrimination claim of a former business-development manager who says Avelo axed him days after he was hospitalized for stroke-like symptoms.
A federal judge refused to let Farmington escape an ADA lawsuit brought by a maintenance foreman whose position was eliminated after he was diagnosed with a hernia and supervisors learned he was the sole caregiver for a special-needs child.
A former personal assistant says her boss stranded her in Tanzania after she refused his sexual advances, then fired her when she came home.
A Tennessee federal judge ruled that a DCS team leader who never set foot at the jail — but made calls that helped set a child removal in motion — must face a jury on constitutional claims.
A California federal magistrate judge let stand a wrongful-termination claim by a medical social worker who was fired three days after an unforeseeable medical emergency forced her to miss work without two hours' advance notice.
A restaurant owner allegedly followed a female manager into the women's bathroom, grabbed her around the waist and touched her buttocks, and told her he wanted to "smack that ass" — then effectively fired her when she refused to meet with him alone.
A New Jersey federal judge enforced a mandatory forum-selection clause in an independent contractor agreement, transferring a putative class action alleging wage-and-hour violations to Florida.
A Northern District of Alabama judge denied summary judgment to two related water filtration and plumbing companies in an ADA discrimination suit, ruling that genuine disputes of material fact exist regarding whether the entities should be aggregated to...
A federal judge in Brooklyn largely refused to dismiss a putative class action by three film and television craftsmen who allege their union kept them out of full membership — and off pension benefits — for years after they had earned the right to join.
A federal magistrate judge has refused to dismiss a former television-station sales executive's claims that Tribune Media Company fired him because of his stomach cancer diagnosis rather than for legitimate business reasons, sending the case to a jury.