The Fifth Circuit will consider reinstating a $70 million verdict in favor of workers who accused a telecommunications company of race discrimination, while the Ninth Circuit will tackle a religious bias case over a vaccine mandate, a legal battle over attorney fees and a separate religious discrimination case over anti-LGBTQ+ comments. Here are four argument sessions discrimination attorneys should keep tabs on this month.
The U.S. Senate voted on party lines Thursday to confirm acting U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Andrea Lucas for a fresh five-year term, clearing the way for her to continue recalibrating the agency's work to match President Donald Trump's agenda.
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There are strong indicators that the University of Toledo sacked a white human resources employee to shield it from racism allegations, two Sixth Circuit judges agreed Thursday, but they said the evidence is of little use since no race discrimination claim was brought in the case before them.
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The Fifth Circuit will consider reinstating a $70 million verdict in favor of workers who accused a telecommunications company of race discrimination, while the Ninth Circuit will tackle a religious bias case over a vaccine mandate, a legal battle over attorney fees and a separate religious discrimination case over anti-LGBTQ+ comments. Here are four argument sessions discrimination attorneys should keep tabs on this month.
The U.S. Senate voted on party lines Thursday to confirm acting U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Andrea Lucas for a fresh five-year term, clearing the way for her to continue recalibrating the agency's work to match President Donald Trump's agenda.
There are strong indicators that the University of Toledo sacked a white human resources employee to shield it from racism allegations, two Sixth Circuit judges agreed Thursday, but they said the evidence is of little use since no race discrimination claim was brought in the case before them.
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August 01, 2025
The Ninth Circuit on Friday granted the Trump administration's bid to halt an injunction blocking enforcement of President Donald Trump's executive order axing labor contracts covering agencies with "national security" aims, saying in a published opinion that the government was likely to succeed against six unions' First Amendment retaliation claim.
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August 01, 2025
In this special edition of Wheeling & Appealing, we're spotlighting key decisions and developments in every circuit court during the first half of 2025, while also previewing August's most intriguing oral arguments, including a remarkably "fierce" showdown between Edible Arrangements and 1-800-Flowers with millions of dollars in attorney fees on the line.
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August 01, 2025
A majority en banc Ninth Circuit has affirmed a lower court's decision upholding Los Angeles Unified School District's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees, while two partially dissenting judges disagreed with the majority's conclusion that the policy passes constitutional muster.
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August 01, 2025
The Eighth Circuit backed the dismissal Friday of an ex-information technology worker's suit claiming the University of Nebraska fired him for seeking accommodations for his attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, ruling he failed to show his condition, rather than a violation of school policy, caused his termination.
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August 01, 2025
A former New Jersey township manager has claimed in state court that he was the target of retaliation and discrimination after opposing a set of local ordinances that he said would have unlawfully targeted immigrants and enabled racial profiling.
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August 01, 2025
The Seventh Circuit has refused to revive a deputy prison warden's suit claiming he was terminated in retaliation for sharing memes online denigrating Muslims, Black people, liberals and the LGBTQ community and calling the Confederate flag "our flag," saying the corrections department's interest as a public employer outweighs his speech interests.
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August 01, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for arguments about whether a proposed wage and hour class action against a drug and alcohol testing company should be sent to arbitration or back to state court.聽Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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August 01, 2025
The Third Circuit declined to reinstate a suit accusing a marketing firm of slating a worker for layoff because of her age, saying she failed to rebut the company's argument that the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the layoffs.
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August 01, 2025
Two Las Vegas resorts and casinos struck deals with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to settle claims that they shirked anti-bias laws by refusing to grant religious accommodations related to COVID-19 vaccine mandates, the agency announced.
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August 01, 2025
This week, a New York federal judge will consider tossing a suit brought by a former administrator at Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital who claims she was fired for complaining about sexual harassment she faced from a co-worker.
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July 31, 2025
The decision by Justin Baldoni's insurer to seek relief聽from defending聽the "It Ends With Us" actor聽and his associates from co-star Blake Lively's sexual harassment claims聽has legal experts raising their eyebrows, as they observe strange circumstances mixed with common coverage issues.
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July 31, 2025
The U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a report Thursday that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' lacks information on all settlement agreements reached in whistleblower retaliation cases involving VA employees due to lack of coordination between agencies.聽
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July 31, 2025
An investigation by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s inspector general has found evidence that former Chair Martin Gruenberg and four unnamed ex-senior officials "personally engaged in some degree of inappropriate workplace conduct," in the latest report on the sexual harassment and toxic workplace scandal that erupted into public view nearly two years ago.
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July 31, 2025
A New Jersey appellate court scrapped a $1.6 million verdict Thursday for a township employee who said she was discriminated and retaliated against for taking leave to treat her anxiety, ruling the evidence presented at trial didn't justify the damages award.
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July 31, 2025
A hospital violated federal disability law when it fired a worker in its insurance department who didn't get the COVID-19 vaccine because she was allergic to it, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in Illinois federal court Thursday.
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