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January 16, 2026
A New York federal judge said an employment law firm would probably win its constitutional challenge to the rejection of a billboard advertising its willingness to sue companies that dismiss sexual harassment as "harmless flirting," calling a Syracuse airport authority's concerns that the ad pushed false information "nonsense."
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January 16, 2026
Former Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey has urged a New York federal court to reject the U.S. Department of Justice's bid to dismiss her firing suit, arguing her claims belong before the district court and not under the jurisdiction of a non-independent board now controlled by the president.
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January 16, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge largely shot down Johnson & Johnson's bid to scrap a former company data privacy attorney's racial and gender discrimination suit and rejected its bid to sanction her over the case.
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January 16, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit has ruled that an Alabama district court rightly tossed a Black worker's discrimination suit against UPS, rejecting her arguments that she should have been allowed to revise her case.
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January 16, 2026
A Black librarian could not show that race discrimination drove a New York school superintendent to pull a job offer from her, the Second Circuit ruled, affirming a federal judge's decision.
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January 16, 2026
A Louisiana state judge sided with a group of transgender teenagers who argue the state's ban on gender-affirming care for minors is unconstitutional, denying the state's bid to dismiss the case, according to an announcement Friday from the minors' attorneys.
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January 16, 2026
This week, the Second Circuit will consider TikTok's bid to overturn a federal judge's decision keeping a former executive's age and gender bias suit in court instead of sending it to arbitration.
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January 15, 2026
The ACLU of Arkansas and others Thursday criticized the University of Arkansas for reversing its decision to hire legal scholar Emily Suski as its law school dean, reportedly due to political pressure generated by her support for transgender student athletes in an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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January 15, 2026
The U.S. Air Force urged the U.S. Supreme Court to not hear a reservist's bid for back pay after he refused to follow its now-overturned COVID-19 vaccine mandate on religious grounds, arguing its sovereign immunity bars compensatory damages claims.
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January 15, 2026
California utility regulators approved Verizon's takeover of Frontier Communications' fiber network Thursday, after the wireless giant has reached several agreements to support statewide diversity and digital equity initiatives.
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January 15, 2026
The Fourth Circuit backed the dismissal of a disability bias suit from a worker who claimed a private aircraft servicer fired her for seeking remote work to manage her breast cancer diagnosis, ruling her termination was fair game because she couldn't consistently perform in-person duties critical to her role.
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January 15, 2026
An award-winning Montclair State University softball coach told a New Jersey federal court that the university wrongfully fired her following an investigation into alleged misconduct that she said was tainted with gender bias and failed to let her respond.
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January 15, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice told a federal court that Minnesota's affirmative action hiring policies for government positions violate civil rights law by handing opportunities to workers based on their identity.
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January 15, 2026
The Second Circuit appeared skeptical Thursday of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's push to wind down a more than half-century-old race discrimination case against unions and apprenticeship programs, questioning whether bias still pervaded the organizations' practices.
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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.