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January 15, 2026
The Sixth Circuit declined to revive a suit from a Black cop who said race bias cost him his job, ruling he couldn't overcome evidence that he was actually terminated for creating and posting rap videos that depicted him brandishing guns and simulating shooting a homeless person.
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January 14, 2026
The Fifth Circuit late Wednesday vacated a split panel opinion allowing enforcement of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act against the state of Texas, granting an en banc rehearing to consider whether the U.S. Constitution required House lawmakers' physical presence to have a quorum when the statute was approved.
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January 14, 2026
A California federal judge has granted the first green light to a settlement reached between Wells Fargo investors and executives in a derivative suit claiming the bank's leadership failed to address the company's discriminatory lending practices and engaged in "fake" interviews with diverse candidates.
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January 14, 2026
A California federal judge called out the attorneys for a proposed class of workers who accused human resources software company Workday of using biased artificial intelligence to screen out job applicants, saying Wednesday that evidence indicated they'd been "asleep at the wheel."
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January 14, 2026
A JPMorgan Chase & Co. employee has hit the financial giant with a proposed class action in a New York federal court accusing it of issuing health insurance plans including fee requirements for tobacco users that violate the antidiscrimination provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
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January 14, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit backed an early win Wednesday for the Federal Aviation Administration in a discrimination suit from an air traffic controller, ruling that "all evidence in the record" supports the conclusion that he was disciplined for failing to complete workplace training on time.
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January 14, 2026
A Jewish law student association and other groups urged a federal judge to let them step in and oppose the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's efforts to craft a "registry" of Jewish students and staff at the University of Pennsylvania, saying the agency's information push evokes "a terrifying history."
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January 14, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Wednesday that it will meet next week to consider retracting workplace harassment guidance promulgated under former President Joe Biden's administration and address a resolution concerning the commission's litigation powers.
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January 14, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission faced an uphill battle at the Eighth Circuit Wednesday as it sought a new trial in a suit accusing a chemical company of failing to stop a Black employee from being harassed, with one judge suggesting the agency's challenge to jury instructions is off-base.
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January 14, 2026
A former United Airlines customer service agent who says she was fired because of her continued need for work accommodations cannot sue her union for failing to take her wrongful discharge claim against the company to arbitration, a Fifth Circuit panel held, saying she missed her deadline to sue.
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January 14, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted along party lines Wednesday to rescind voting procedures that gave commissioners the right to call debates on proposed policy changes, with the agency's Trump-appointed leader promising to wield majority power aggressively.
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January 14, 2026
President Donald Trump has resubmitted his push for Senate approval for the head of Norton Rose Fulbright's global labor and employment practice to take over as general counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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January 13, 2026
New York and New Jersey recently enshrined the concept of disparate impact discrimination into their laws, adding a growing patchwork of obligations for employers following the federal government's recent repudiation of that legal theory.
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January 13, 2026
A Florida federal judge declined a senior living facility's bid for a new trial in a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission disability bias suit claiming it wouldn't hire a veteran who has PTSD, but cut a $400,000 jury verdict to $50,000 in line with a damages cap.
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January 13, 2026
A Motel 6 operator in Florida agreed to pay $50,000 to resolve a charge filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging a worker was forced out of her job because of disability discrimination, the agency announced Tuesday.
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January 13, 2026
New York City's civil rights agency released updates to its disability discrimination guidelines on Tuesday to address how artificial intelligence could disadvantage disabled workers, broaden its discussion of service animals, and clarify that remote work could be an accommodation for a disabled worker.
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January 13, 2026
A dozen Democratic state attorneys general sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday, claiming the agency's threat to withhold billions of dollars in funding from states that don't hew to an executive order declaring that gender is immutable conflicts with antidiscrimination law.
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January 13, 2026
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy told a state court judge that a suit by former elections chief Jeffrey Brindle should be completely dismissed because his decision to write a satirical article in his official capacity invalidates his First Amendment claim as it applies to his continued employment in the role.
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January 13, 2026
A legal assistant's suit accusing a New Mexico-based personal injury law firm of forcing her to resign she disclosed her pregnancy will head to trial to determine whether there were multiple contracts at stake, a federal magistrate judge said.
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January 13, 2026
The AFL-CIO, the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups warned that proposed changes to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's voting procedures would amount to a "power grab" by the agency's Republican chair.
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January 12, 2026
Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., sued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Monday, urging a D.C. federal court to declare unlawful Hegseth's attempt to reduce the lawmaker's Navy rank over statements reminding service members of their obligation to disregard unlawful orders.
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January 12, 2026
A former security officer broke into tears on the witness stand Monday as she told an Atlanta federal jury about an alleged sexual assault she said she suffered at the hands of her former employer's then-vice president of operations.
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January 12, 2026
A Florida federal judge ruled in favor of UPS after the company was sued for alleged racial discrimination over firing one of its delivery drivers, who is Black, saying the former employee was terminated for misconduct.
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January 12, 2026
The Ninth Circuit declined Monday to revive a suit from a trio of UPS workers who claimed an "old boys' club" culture left women with subpar pay and medical accommodations, ruling they failed to identify comparable men who received better treatment.
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January 12, 2026
Apple discriminated against a senior adviser with multiple disabilities, forcing her to take a demotion to a lower-paid position in order to keep working remotely and ultimately created a hostile work environment, according to a suit now in Colorado federal court.