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January 27, 2025
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP scored significant employer-side wins this year, including a Texas federal court's decision to nationally invalidate a federal rule banning noncompetes and defeating misclassification claims against Uber in Massachusetts, once again earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 27, 2025
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission dropped a suit against a food delivery company claiming it failed to fulfill its end of a settlement resolving a former worker's disability bias charge, telling a Virginia federal court that the company paid the missing cash.
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January 27, 2025
A food service worker at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center was denied her leave and accommodation requests during her pregnancy and eventually fired for being absent too much, she said in a suit filed in Pennsylvania federal court.
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January 27, 2025
A plastics manufacturer will pay a Black former worker $60,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit brought in Wisconsin federal court claiming the business fired him days after he complained that a white worker leveled racial slurs at him.
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January 24, 2025
For companies pushing forward with their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives amid a torrent of attacks from President Donald Trump and his allies, there are myriad potential risks ahead — and murky questions about the legal parameters of Trump's anti-DEI agenda.
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January 24, 2025
The Michigan Supreme Court on Friday refused to revive a Black man's racial discrimination lawsuit that alleged his supervisor at FCA US LLC regularly called him a racial slur, although two justices, while concurring with the decision, disagreed that the man insufficiently alleged a racially hostile work environment.
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January 24, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor on Friday halted all investigations and enforcement in the wake of President Donald Trump's executive order earlier this week pulling a longstanding, core legal authority used to prevent federal contractors from discriminating against workers.
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January 24, 2025
The Eleventh Circuit on Friday considered whether to reverse assault and battery verdicts against two former Koch Foods human resource managers accused of inviting an employee to their home, propositioning her and subjecting her to disciplinary action at work when she refused their advances.
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January 24, 2025
A Michigan federal judge on Friday told Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan it had a "high hurdle" to meet for him to say a new trial is warranted, after a jury awarded almost $13 million to a worker who was fired after being denied religious accommodation from the company's COVID-19 mandatory vaccine policy.
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January 24, 2025
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office requiring nearly all federal employees to return to physical offices, a shift away from telework that some private sector companies are also embracing. Here, experts discuss four errors that private employers make when implementing return-to-work policies.
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January 24, 2025
A mortgage and financial services company on Friday defeated a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it unlawfully refused to hire a woman because she took pain medication, after a Washington federal judge ruled midtrial that a key piece of evidence shouldn't have been shown to jurors.
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January 24, 2025
A Los Angeles judge has ordered arbitration in "Vanderpump Rules" alum Faith Stowers' racism lawsuit against NBCUniversal Media and Bravo, saying the reality TV personality's contracts clearly required such disputes to be handled outside of court.
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January 24, 2025
Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman announced Friday he's declining to bring criminal charges against rock star Marilyn Manson, saying domestic violence allegations fall outside the statute of limitations and the office is unable to prove various women's sexual assault claims beyond a reasonable doubt.
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January 24, 2025
A Texas federal judge on Friday paused a SpaceX lawsuit challenging administrative proceedings against the aeronautics company over its refusal to hire refugees and asylees, after the U.S. Department of Justice said it was considering ways to resolve the case.
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January 24, 2025
In the next week, attorneys should watch for the potential final approval of a $3.6 million settlement in a wage and hour class action against a freight carrier. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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January 24, 2025
A Tennessee federal judge derailed an effort by a coalition of Republican state attorneys general to pause U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidance on workplace harassment, after finding that a recent executive order issued by President Donald Trump may have nullified the legal challenge.
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January 24, 2025
Major financial institutions in the United States, including Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, could have made business decisions to follow political agendas, attorneys general from 10 states said, urging them to tackle a series of questions about their diversity and inclusion policies.
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January 24, 2025
Shegerian & Associates won two jury trials for an oncologist in her gender discrimination lawsuit and secured a $14 million award for a bank manager who was fired for taking leave to care for her critically ill husband, earning the firm a place among the 2024 Law360 Employment Groups of the Year.
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January 24, 2025
A lawyer representing Justin Baldoni has told a New York federal judge that statements his counsel has made to the press regarding the actor and director's thorny litigation with Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds over the film "It Ends With Us" didn't violate ethical rules or prejudice proceedings.
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January 24, 2025
Thomson Reuters has settled a lawsuit claiming it wrongly fired a white data scientist in its Boston office for criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement on a company messaging system, according to a filing in federal court.
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January 24, 2025
A California appeals panel reopened a discrimination lawsuit against the San Francisco District Attorney's Office by a Black ex-employee, saying a trial court should evaluate the city's response to a co-worker's racial slur given a state Supreme Court ruling that a single epithet can create a hostile work environment.
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January 24, 2025
This week, a New York federal judge will consider YouGov's bid to toss a former executive's lawsuit claiming she was discriminated against because of her gender and ultimately forced to resign after she complained about her treatment.
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January 23, 2025
Texas attorney Tony Buzbee tore into rapper Jay-Z's request that Buzbee be sanctioned for filing a suit accusing Jay-Z and Sean "Diddy" Combs of raping a 13-year-old, arguing that Jay-Z is merely trying to intimidate the accuser and that if anyone should be sanctioned, it's Jay-Z.
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January 23, 2025
A Trump administration order barring federal contractors from engaging in diversity, equity and inclusion programs could face court challenges, following the path of decisions rejecting the Biden administration's arguments it had statutory authority for minimum wage and vaccine requirements.
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January 23, 2025
Los Angeles contemporary art museum The Broad's former facilities director said in an age and race bias suit filed Thursday he was fired following a "pretextual 'witch-hunt'" stemming from its chief operating officer's hatred for white men and her unsubstantiated statements accusing him of being a misogynist.