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February 25, 2026
A former California Superior Court judge has lost his bid to toss five criminal counts alleging he sexually assaulted a court staffer and made false statements to investigators in an attempted cover-up.
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February 25, 2026
A California legislator is seeking to strengthen the state's restrictions on criminal background checks for job applicants, proposing legislation that would require employers to document how a criminal conviction conflicts with specific job responsibilities before revoking an offer.
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February 25, 2026
Harvey Weinstein tapped a new attorney at Agnifilo Intrater for his third rape trial slated for next month, while the former Hollywood mogul's longtime defense team at Aidala Bertuna & Kamins said it will bow out.
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February 24, 2026
Baby products brand Munchkin Inc. lost its bid to arbitrate its former general counsel's suit alleging he was fired for complaining about the company's "war on families," after a California judge ruled a sexual harassment claim added in an amended version of his suit exempted him from mandatory arbitration.
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February 24, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday accused the University of California, Los Angeles, of discriminating against its Jewish and Israeli employees by turning a blind eye to harassing conduct by other staffers and students in the wake of Hamas' October 2023 attack on Israel and subsequent pro-Palestine demonstrations.
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February 24, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Tuesday accused a Michigan home hospice provider of discriminating against a Black nursing assistant by assigning her fewer hours and less plum assignments than her white colleagues.
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February 24, 2026
A University of Pittsburgh Medical Center unit must face a jury in a former doctor's lawsuit claiming he was let go because he was in his 70s, a Pennsylvania federal judge said Monday, ruling a reasonable jury could find that administrators drummed up workplace issues as an excuse to force him out.
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February 24, 2026
A New York federal judge declined to toss a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming a school district paid a female superintendent less than her male predecessors, after highlighting evidence that the female leader's benefits package and salary trailed her male counterparts.
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February 24, 2026
A New Mexico nursing care facility has agreed to pay $75,000 to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging a supervisor bullied older, Spanish-speaking workers and then sacked them for complaining, according to deal documents filed Tuesday.
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February 24, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission is pushing back on NewsGuard's bid to stop the agency's investigation into what it called digital advertising collusion, arguing that the news-rating organization cannot show the antitrust investigation is retaliatory and alleging the company mischaracterized FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson's remarks in its motion for a preliminary injunction.
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February 24, 2026
The current family leave options available to American workers might no longer be enough, and a tangible push to improve paid parental leave and to introduce federal leave benefits to level the field of paid leave is necessary, the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections said during a hearing Tuesday.
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February 24, 2026
A Michigan federal jury said a nonprofit that assists Arab immigrants should pay a Muslim teacher $1.8 million for illegally firing her because she refused to remove a religious veil during classes, finding the employer failed to accommodate her religious beliefs.
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February 24, 2026
The Fourth Circuit has affirmed a judgment in favor of a North Carolina IHOP franchisee in a former server's suit alleging sexual harassment, retaliation and minimum wage infractions, holding that her federal wage claim was time-barred and that she failed to show her firing for attendance violations was a pretext for discrimination.
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February 24, 2026
A North Carolina federal judge refused to greenlight a $270,000 settlement that would end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit accusing PepsiCo of unlawfully firing a blind employee, saying parts of the agreement are beyond the scope of the case.
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February 24, 2026
A worker will have to arbitrate his claims that Tesla harassed him into resigning for complaining about alleged racial discrimination at the electric vehicle maker's Fremont, California, factory, a federal judge ruled, rejecting his argument that an arbitration pact he signed wasn't enforceable.
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February 23, 2026
New Jersey's acting attorney general told a state judge Friday that Ironworkers Local 11's bid to inject a new federal ruling into a discrimination case falls flat, arguing in a letter that the union's reliance on the decision misfires because the opinion doesn't address state law discrimination or alter the analysis set forth by applicable U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
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February 23, 2026
A biologist has asked a Florida federal court to restore her state agency position after she was fired for sharing a post making fun of Charlie Kirk on social media, arguing the First Amendment allows free speech on public topics that have nothing to do with her job.
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February 23, 2026
A recent appellate ruling making it tougher for workers to sue employers over alleged harassment by third parties threatens to undermine the goals of federal anti-bias law, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told the Third Circuit, backing a suit against the University of Pennsylvania.
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February 23, 2026
Frank Pepe's, a Connecticut-based pizza chain, has settled a federal lawsuit brought by its former director of operations for allegedly firing him because he is a middle-aged white man, court records show.
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February 23, 2026
The attorney representing an Arab American worker in a civil rights retaliation suit against an engineering firm had legitimate grounds for opposing the firm's motion for an early win, the Fourth Circuit has determined, scrapping a $57,015 sanction a federal district judge imposed for allegedly dragging out the case.
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February 23, 2026
A New Jersey woman who claimed she was fired by Centerview Partners after disclosing she needed consistent sleep to manage a health disorder settled her case against the investment bank ahead of a jury trial in New York federal court, the bank said Monday.
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February 23, 2026
A former employee of Stone Hilton PLLC has asked a Texas federal court to revisit a decision to quash a subpoena for information from Sen. Ted Cruz, saying a 2019 memo received two days after the ruling establishes that a claim of harassment was made against firm partner Judd Stone shortly before he quit working for the senator.
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February 23, 2026
Missouri-headquartered Spencer Fane LLP has hired the former leader of Quarles & Brady LLP's Washington, D.C., labor and employment group as a partner who will work on defamation cases, class action matters and more, according to an announcement on Monday.
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February 23, 2026
An Oklahoma federal judge declined to toss a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the owner of a sunroom company sexually harassed female employees, calling the company's attacks on the veracity of the EEOC's allegations premature.
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February 23, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review a D.C. Circuit decision that scuttled a disability bias lawsuit from a U.S. Department of Defense intelligence analyst who claimed he was unlawfully reassigned after failing a series of polygraph tests.