The Eleventh Circuit declined Wednesday to reinstate a U.S. Postal Service courier's discrimination case challenging a work assignment that reduced her shift to 1.5 hours per day due to medical restrictions from an on-the-job injury, finding she offered scant evidence of race, sex, age and disability bias.
Employers challenging the National Labor Relations Board's constitutionality can't get its cases blocked because they arise out of "labor disputes" courts are generally forbidden to meddle in, the Third Circuit said Wednesday, opening a split with the Fifth Circuit.
A split Second Circuit panel ruled Wednesday that a New York school district couldn't escape a former principal's $480,000 jury win in a sex discrimination case, finding a judge's mistaken comment on a key defense for the district didn't warrant a redo.