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3rd Circuit Partially Reinstates Basketball Referee's Gender Discrimination Suit
PHILADELPHIA - A female basketball referee may proceed with her gender bias claims against several organizations for failing to assign her to boys' games after presenting evidence sufficient for the...
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Magistrate Judge Finds Investigative Reports Are Not Privileged
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A federal magistrate judge in Kansas overseeing discovery in an employment discrimination suit on March 20 held that investigative reports prepared by the Shawnee County Board of...
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U.S. Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Government Workers' Age Bias Appeal
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on March 18 agreed to hear the appeal of a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that state and local government employees may bring age discrimination...
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Expanded Discovery Denied In Home Depot Age Discrimination Class Suit
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A Kansas federal magistrate judge on March 28 "generally denied" a motion to compel production of documents relating to more than 1 million employees of a home improvement and...
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Insurance Broker's Former Employee Alleges Sufficient Contract Claim, Judge Says
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A former employee of an insurance broker sufficiently asserts a claim for breach of contract against his former employer for terminating his benefits under a departure agreement, a...
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2nd Circuit Finds No Error In Imposition Of Dismissal Sanctions
NEW YORK - A Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on March 15 upheld a federal judge in New York's decision to impose dismissal sanctions against a pro se plaintiff in a suit brought under Title...
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9th Circuit Reinstates Police Officer's Free Speech, Retaliation Suit
PASADENA, Calif. - A California city police officer may proceed with his claims that his pay increase was delayed by the police chief in retaliation for free speech, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of...
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3rd Circuit Affirms Rejection Of State Police Officer's Constitutional Claims
PHILADELPHIA - A state police officer failed to prove his claims that his constitutional rights were violated when he was placed on restricted duty despite being acquitted of criminal charges filed...
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Judge Reduces Verdict For Employee Made Ill By Mold Exposure
ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands - A Virgin Islands federal judge on March 22 refused a landlord's request for a new trial in relation to a verdict awarded to an employee of the Virgin Islands Bureau of...
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11th Circuit Upholds Rejection Of Engineer's Disability Bias, Retaliation Claims
ATLANTA - An engineer failed to show that he was discriminated against due to his disability or retaliated against when his request for an extension of leave from his employer was denied, the 11th...
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8th Circuit: Manager With Eye Injury Was Properly Terminated
ST. PAUL, Minn. - A direct food delivery company manager had no grounds to sue his former employer alleging that he was improperly terminated after sustaining an eye injury that prevented him from...
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7th Circuit Reinstates Indianapolis Employee's Bias, Retaliation Claims
CHICAGO - A former Indiana city employee may proceed with her discrimination and retaliation claims because a reasonable jury could find that there was a causal link between the termination and the...
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D.C. Circuit Reinstates Fannie Mae Employee's Federal Race Bias Claims
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A Fannie Mae employee who alleges that he was subjected to racial bias and a hostile work environment may proceed to a jury trial with his federal claims, the District of Columbia...
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11th Circuit Affirms Judgment For Employer Accused Of Harassment, Bias
ATLANTA - A Georgia man failed to prove his claims of sexual harassment, gender bias and retaliation that he filed against his former employer, the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled March 25,...
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Split 3rd Circuit Partially Reinstates Tyco Accountant's Whistle-Blower Suit
PHILADELPHIA - A former Tyco Electronics Corp. accountant may proceed with part of his whistle-blower suit claiming that he was terminated after questioning hundreds of thousands of dollars in...
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Company Appeals Reformation Of Contract Based On Union's 'Ambiguous' Evidence...
Case: Local Union 2-2000, of the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, et al. v. Coca-Cola Refreshments USA, Inc.,...
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Tyson Appeals Donning And Doffing Verdict, Damages Under FLSA and Kansas Law
Case: Adelina Garcia, et al., individually, and on behalf of a class of others similarly situated v. Tyson Foods, Inc., et al., Nos. 12-3346 and 13-3013, 10th Cir....(read more)
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Unions Appeal Decision Granting Injunction Barring Processing Of Grievances
Case: Ronald K. Hooks, Regional Director of the Nineteenth Region of the National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Locals 8 and 40, No. 12-36068, 9th Cir....(read...
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Attorney Challenges Validity Of Personal Staff Exemption In FMLA Retaliation...
Case: Joanne Horen v. Judge Stacy Cook, No. 12-4544, 6th Cir....(read more)
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Rite Aid Pharmacists Appeal Application Of Professional Exemption
Case: Thomas B. Kulish, et al. v. Rite Aid Corporation and Eckerd Corporation, d/b/a Rite Aid, et al., No. 13-1044, 4th Cir....(read more)
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