The Seventh Circuit declined to revive a transgender bus driver's suit claiming the Chicago Transit Authority fired him due to his gender identity, ruling he failed to show the decision was driven by prejudice rather than claims that he took medical leave that wasn't approved.
A decision last week from New York's highest court preserving long-standing age limitations on judicial service left unresolved questions about the reach of a nearly 2-year-old constitutional amendment expanding state antidiscrimination protections, experts said.
A New York federal judge tossed a Black former executive secretary's suit claiming a cancer institute denied her request to work remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic out of racial bias, ruling she couldn't overcome evidence that her job required an in-office presence.
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The Seventh Circuit declined to revive a transgender bus driver's suit claiming the Chicago Transit Authority fired him due to his gender identity, ruling he failed to show the decision was driven by prejudice rather than claims that he took medical leave that wasn't approved.
A decision last week from New York's highest court preserving long-standing age limitations on judicial service left unresolved questions about the reach of a nearly 2-year-old constitutional amendment expanding state antidiscrimination protections, experts said.
A New York federal judge tossed a Black former executive secretary's suit claiming a cancer institute denied her request to work remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic out of racial bias, ruling she couldn't overcome evidence that her job required an in-office presence.
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June 25, 2026
A South Carolina federal jury awarded an employee $400,000 in his age discrimination suit alleging that chemical giant BASF Corp. declined to promote him and tapped a younger, less qualified employee for a more senior role.
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June 25, 2026
A Third Circuit panel questioned Thursday whether a hospital employee's disclosure of her diabetes was "too little, too late" to trigger an accommodation after she was written up for sleeping on the job — and whether her attorneys should be sanctioned for filing a minor motion that appeared to include AI-hallucinated citations.
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June 25, 2026
The NFL Players Association and its former longtime associate general counsel have told a federal court in Washington, D.C. that they've reached a tentative agreement to settle the former in-house lawyer's $10 million sex discrimination and retaliation suit against the association.
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June 25, 2026
Walmart told a Washington federal court that it must reduce a $23 million verdict handed to an ex-employee who claimed she was fired for reporting sexual harassment, saying a statutory damages cap requires the court to cut the victory to $300,000.
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June 25, 2026
An auto parts manufacturer violated federal genetic information protections by asking job applicants for details about family medical history as part of the hiring process, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a new lawsuit.
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June 25, 2026
Prosecutors told a New York judge Thursday that they will drop a third-degree rape charge against Harvey Weinstein after two consecutive juries deadlocked on the allegation by actor Jessica Mann.
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June 24, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday appeared skeptical about reviving a suit from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer who said a colleague posting photos of him on Facebook amounted to sexual harassment, with judges suggesting precedent may not be on his side.
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June 24, 2026
A former server and a former bartender at The Detroit Club broke down in tears in a Michigan federal courtroom Wednesday as their attorney emotionally urged jurors to hold the club and its owner liable for allegedly retaliating against them after they complained about what they believed was racist treatment of Black guests.
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June 24, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claimed in a Mississippi federal court suit that a barge transportation company violated disability bias law by yanking back a worker's job offer after he failed a color vision test, even though the results wouldn't have impacted his position.
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June 24, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday revived a suit from two flight attendants claiming they were illegally fired by Alaska Airlines and abandoned by their union for opposing the airline's support for LGBTQ+ rights, saying they demonstrated a plausible dispute about whether Alaska terminated them based on their religious beliefs.
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June 24, 2026
The Eighth Circuit refused Wednesday to reopen a former U.S. Agriculture Department employee's lawsuit alleging she was fired because of her anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder, saying she couldn't overcome the agency's assertion that attendance issues cost her the job.
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June 24, 2026
O'Reilly Auto Parts illegally fired a worker who couldn't return to his truck-driving position after suffering a seizure instead of finding him a new role, a new disability discrimination suit from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleges in Michigan federal court.
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June 24, 2026
The Third Circuit declared Wednesday that the long-standing, worker-friendly standard used to evaluate Title VII retaliation claims also applies to analogue allegations under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act, kickstarting a former Marine's suit over a leaner-than-expected bonus and pay raise.
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June 24, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit backed benefits administrator Sedgwick's win on Wednesday in a former worker's age bias suit alleging the company unfairly criticized her performance and fired her, ruling her case fell flat because she filed her presuit bias charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission too late.
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June 24, 2026
A Maryland State Police sergeant must face a lawsuit alleging he excluded two Black task force members from meetings and failed to address a subordinate officer's racist text message, with the Fourth Circuit ruling Wednesday that a reasonable supervisor would've understood his actions violated civil rights law.
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June 24, 2026
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Wednesday that it will convene next week to consider a new four-year strategic plan and proposals to eliminate several decades-old guidance documents relating to voluntary workplace affirmative action plans.
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June 24, 2026
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed what his administration called a first-of-its-kind executive order directing city agencies to develop heat-safety protections for workers who face dangerous temperatures on the job, his office announced.
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June 24, 2026
Foreign workers asked a Georgia federal judge to approve a $2.7 million settlement to resolve class action claims that an Atlanta-area building materials supplier and staffing and recruiting agencies violated the Fair Labor Standards Act and a state racketeering law.
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June 24, 2026
The question of whether a worker consents to arbitrate even if they don't open emails containing opt-out instructions for an arbitration pact, which the Ninth Circuit is considering, hinges on if the worker acknowledged having received the emails, attorneys said.
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June 24, 2026
Waffle House was sued by a former server who alleges the restaurant chain collected an unlawful tobacco surcharge from employees enrolled in its health plan without offering a compliant wellness program or properly notifying workers of how to avoid the fee.
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June 24, 2026
The District of Columbia's water utility will pay over $216,700 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it unlawfully fired a 54-year-old human resources employee and replaced him with someone two decades younger, according to a federal court filing.
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June 23, 2026
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr has told Congress that tanking diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the telecom industry is not only justified but also a policy where Americans find more "common ground" than many lawmakers realize.
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June 23, 2026
The Sixth Circuit refused Tuesday to upend a $205,000 verdict in favor of a former Michigan Technological University accounting professor who said she was given a lower raise because she took maternity leave, saying a reasonable jury could conclude the dean improperly considered her pregnancy.
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June 23, 2026
The Fifth Circuit revived part of a Black nurse's discrimination suit Tuesday after finding a lower court was too quick to nix claims that she faced racist harassment on the job, highlighting evidence that she faced frequent racially disparaging remarks from her fellow nurses.
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June 23, 2026
A former senior clinical trial manager at BioNTech US Inc. told a North Carolina federal court Monday that she was wrongfully fired after complaining to higher-ups about an "epidemic of safety issues and protocol deviations" in clinical trials.