Boeing Co . has promised to keep aircraft production in the Pacific Northwest under a tentative labor agreement with the International Association of Machinists, the latest test of job-protection pacts that have produced uneven results in other sectors.
Amazon.com Inc. ran afoul of a settlement agreement with National Labor Relations Board prosecutors by issuing a rule restricting off-duty workers’ access to its facilities, the NLRB ruled.
An automotive fuel systems company lost its bid for an immediate court order to halt a National Labor Relations Board case based on its constitutional challenge to the agency.
An Ohio hospital defeated a religious nurse’s bias case after demonstrating that allowing her to work without undergoing Covid-19 vaccination or weekly testing would pose an undue hardship.
Workplace violence prevention laws in the bellwether states of California and New York are poised to influence legislative approaches in other jurisdictions that must decide whether to focus prevention efforts solely on high-risk industries.
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp . failed to convince a federal judge to toss a class action after the court declared a mistrial last year due to a deadlocked jury.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP and some of its partners lost much of their fight for a federal court to dismiss a female former associate’s claims of gender discrimination.
US air safety regulators are working overtime to keep up with safety and launch license applications at Elon Musk ’s SpaceX , the world’s most prolific rocket launch company.
Wayfair Inc. defeated a warehouse worker’s bid to revive a lawsuit challenging his termination after a workplace injury limited his lifting ability.
An education technology company agreed to provide injunctive and other relief to a female manager following a federal pay discrimination investigation, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Tuesday.
Former Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Inc. employees asked a federal court to certify a class of more than 16,000 people in their lawsuit challenging the administrative fees and investment options in the Los Angeles hospital’s $2.15 billion retirement plan.
A fired Exxon Mobil Corp. refinery worker was denied a trial on his sex discrimination claim because he lacked evidence of “fishy circumstances” showing the company discriminates against men.
Canada’s Conservative party chief says he stands with pilots in a labor dispute with Air Canada, as the carrier prepares to suspend flights ahead of a potential strike.
A former KPC Healthcare Holdings Inc. worker challenging the company’s 2021 sale away from its employee stock ownership plan isn’t entitled to see a valuation report that allegedly informed the transaction, a federal judge said.
A former assistant physics professor may continue to pursue his claim against Cornell University for gender discrimination, a federal court said.
Sean Murray joined William Fry as a partner in its tax department, the firm announced Wednesday.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP and some of its partners lost much of their fight for a federal court to dismiss a female former associate’s claims of gender discrimination.
Nio Inc., a Chinese electric vehicle maker facing myriad legal and regulatory issues as it takes on Tesla lnc., has hired a new US legal chief from a law firm that does work for the Elon Musk-led automotive giant.
Supreme Court Today, Vol. 93 No. 7, pages 3033-3040, dated Sept. 12, 2024, is now available. A link to the PDF version can be found in the Related Documents field.
House backers of a bipartisan, Senate-passed bill to expand the judiciary hope to send it to the president’s desk this year, despite limited time and a packed legislative agenda ahead of Election Day.
National civil rights law firm Sanford Heisler Sharp has appointed partner Vince McKnight to co-vice chair.
A private equity firm’s insurer is on the hook for more than $3 million in legal defense costs the firm incurred litigating a case related to a judgment against a corporate housing company it acquired and dissolved, a federal court ruled.
A fired Exxon Mobil Corp. refinery worker was denied a trial on his sex discrimination claim because he lacked evidence of “fishy circumstances” showing the company discriminates against men.
A venture capital firm will shut down a program that provided grant funding to Black women entrepreneurs in order to end a discrimination case brought by a conservative advocacy group led by longtime diversity, equity, and inclusion opponent Edward Blum.
Harvard University became the latest elite school to report a decline in first-year Black students following a US Supreme Court ruling that effectively banned colleges from considering race as a factor in admissions.
At Goldman Sachs Group Inc. , there’s an ESG filter that tells investors to buy coal giant Glencore Plc , and avoid Big Tech staples Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.
The private equity firm that owns a majority of the organization behind the ACT college admissions exam is forcing through a restructuring to spin off part of the enterprise, according to an unsealed lawsuit.
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp . failed to convince a federal judge to toss a class action after the court declared a mistrial last year due to a deadlocked jury.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP and some of its partners lost much of their fight for a federal court to dismiss a female former associate’s claims of gender discrimination.
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration’s efforts to criticize the state’s abortion rights ballot measure is an unlawful misuse of taxpayer funds, a local attorney claimed in a petition to the state high court.
States and cities that have in place policies that hinder the federal government from enforcing immigration laws would be ineligible to receive federal aid for migrant care under H.R. 5717 .
A fired Exxon Mobil Corp. refinery worker was denied a trial on his sex discrimination claim because he lacked evidence of “fishy circumstances” showing the company discriminates against men.
A former assistant physics professor may continue to pursue his claim against Cornell University for gender discrimination, a federal court said.
The Biden administration is trying to claim nearly all of Alaska’s Arctic Coastal Plain as a wetland protected under the Clean Water Act in defiance of the US Supreme Court’s 2023 wetlands ruling, an Alaska official told a House subcommittee on Wednesday.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP and some of its partners lost much of their fight for a federal court to dismiss a female former associate’s claims of gender discrimination.
Wayfair Inc. defeated a warehouse worker’s bid to revive a lawsuit challenging his termination after a workplace injury limited his lifting ability.
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration’s efforts to criticize the state’s abortion rights ballot measure is an unlawful misuse of taxpayer funds, a local attorney claimed in a petition to the state high court.
Marathon Petroleum Co. will try to convince the Illinois Supreme Court at oral arguments Thursday to overturn a $15 million motor fuel tax bill and in the process urge the court to put the brakes on localities expanding their reach and taxing intangible assets.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked a federal judge to intervene after losing his fight in Michigan courts to remove his name from the state’s November presidential election ballot.
The risks that artificial intelligence represents have come into sharper focus: disinformation, potential job loss, perhaps even an existential threat to humanity. Is government capable of putting guardrails around such a fast-moving technology?
A federal court denied Massachusetts Financial Services Company’s motion to dismiss the Title VII and state law religious discrimination claims of an assistant vice president and a software architect who were allegedly terminated after refusing a company mandate to receive a Covid-19 vaccine. Usmanov v. Mass. Fin. Servs. Co., 2024 BL 307405, D. Mass., 1:23-cv-11631-JEK, 9/3/24
Datamatics Global Services, Inc.’s state law breach of contract claim against a former sales executive who quit, joined a competitor, and solicited business from a Datamatics client will survive dismissal, a Michigan federal court ruled, where his non-solicitation covenant was enforceable. Datamatics Glob. Servs. v. Ravi, 2024 BL 303245, E.D. Mich., 2:23-cv-12035, 8/29/24
An observant Muslim female employee who wears a hijab plausibly alleged that Dunkin Donuts discriminated against her based on her religion and sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, and New York state and New York City law, a federal district court ruled. Nahar v. ADR Ventures WPR LLC, 2024 BL 307976, S.D.N.Y., 23-CV-3835 (VSB), 9/3/24
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