Law 360

MAY 21, 2024

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's enforcement guidance over gender identity and Title VII, arguing that the agency must be stopped from requiring employers' compliance with pronoun and bathroom accommodations. The Texas attorney general requested Tuesday that a federal judge do away with the U.S.

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Law 360

APRIL 1, 2024

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging the carmaker allowed rampant racism to overtake a California factory, a federal judge has ruled, saying parallel state court cases can't resolve the agency's claims. Tesla can't put off or dodge a U.S.

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Law 360

APRIL 20, 2022

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's win in a suit in Wisconsin federal court accusing the retail giant of violating federal law by firing an employee with Down syndrome, arguing that a jury was wrong when it sided with the agency. Walmart is looking to erase the U.S.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's recently finalized strategic enforcement plan highlights how the agency will prioritize its limited resources over the next four years, and the most notable emerging issues include ensuring protections for pregnant workers and those dealing with long-term COVID-19 effects, says Jim Paretti at Littler.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and another agency asked a North Dakota federal court to pause a suit seeking to block them from requiring Christian employers and health care providers to cover gender transition surgery, saying new regulations are in the offing.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the U.S In 2014, the USDA decentralized its sign language interpreting services and required each of its 17 sub-agencies to fund services for its employees directly. ” # # # SOURCE: Settlement Agreement [link] (subscription required).

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Law 360

JUNE 24, 2021

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Thursday named a veteran agency lawyer who started her career as an associate at Steptoe & Johnson PLLC to lead the EEOC's Office of Legal Counsel.

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Law 360

MAY 17, 2021

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Monday urged the full Seventh Circuit to reconsider a split ruling in the agency's religious bias case against Walmart, saying the panel decision contradicts circuit precedent and relies on "speculation" from the retailer.

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Law 360

MAY 27, 2021

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission staved off a trial slated for June with a deal to resolve the agency's suit claiming the grocery chain told a Rastafarian applicant he'd have to chop his dreadlocks to work at a Nashville store. Publix and the U.S.

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Law 360

JANUARY 24, 2024

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission leaders — including two recently confirmed Democratic appointees — can provide insight into how the agency may approach access to justice priorities, as identified in its latest strategic enforcement plan, says Aniko Schwarcz at Cohen Milstein.

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Law 360

JANUARY 5, 2024

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's suit alleging the carmaker allowed a California factory to be overrun with racist remarks and graffiti, the agency told a federal court, saying Tesla is trying to deflect by asserting that the EEOC's action is duplicative of two other lawsuits. Tesla can't pause the U.S.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming it allowed a factory to be overrun with racial harassment, arguing the agency rushed duplicative allegations to court as part of a turf war with a state bias watchdog. Tesla urged a California federal judge to pump the brakes on a U.S.

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JayS.Rothman&Associates

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

If you are 40 years of age or older, the severance agreement your employer gave you must adhere to strict federal standards. As an older departing employee, your agreement must contain provisions established under the EEOC, ADEA and other government agencies. Timing is important here.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The EU Commission’s Proposal of 1 December 2021 outlines, in its introductory Recitals: “Efficient cross-border judicial cooperation requires secure, reliable and time-efficient communication between courts and competent authorities. However, most instruments do not provide for engaging in such communication through digital means.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 5, 2009

In three cases released last week, the FCC made clear that its EEO rules, requiring wide dissemination of information about job opportunities at broadcast stations (and cable systems), are not satisfied by solely posting of information about openings on websites. What does this mean on a practical level?

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2014

Each EEO employment unit (stations under common control, serving the same geographic area and sharing a common employee) with 5 or more full-time employees must engage in the three prongs of the FCC’s EEO outreach requirements. Both cases arose from station license renewal applications filed about more than 3 years ago.

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JURIST

MAY 17, 2025

A Texas federal judge struck down the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) transgender employee protection policy on Thursday, stating the policy contradicts the plain text of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC did not appeal.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We’ll start today with issues likely to be considered by the FCC, and we’ll write later about issues that may arise on Capitol Hill and elsewhere in the maze of government agencies and courts who deal with media issues.

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Law 360

JUNE 17, 2024

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission overstepped its authority by requiring workplace accommodations for "purely elective abortions," a Louisiana federal judge ruled Monday, handing two states and several religious groups a temporary reprieve from agency regulations implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.

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Law 360

APRIL 25, 2024

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission with a lawsuit Thursday over the agency's recently finalized Pregnant Workers Fairness Act regulations, saying the EEOC's stance that the PWFA encompasses abortion-related workplace accommodations is unconstitutional.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2022

When the Supreme Court reschedules a case, that case is moved on the court’s docket from one of the justices’ private conferences to a later one before the justices even have the opportunity to discuss it at conference. After Axon Enterprise acquired a competitor, it found itself subjected to antitrust review by the Federal Trade Commission.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's general counsel, making the veteran civil rights lawyer the first blind person to lead the agency's litigation program. Senate confirmed Sanford Heisler Sharp LLP attorney Karla Gilbride on Tuesday to serve as the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 18, 2021

City officials were unrelenting (and downright nasty) in their unsuccessful demand that the agency endorse same-sex marriage as a precondition to social service. I filed an amicus brief in support of CSS on behalf of former foster and adoptive parents and former foster children served by Catholic-run agencies. We are better than this.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The conflict arises out of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Department of Education’s (DOE) interpretation of a Supreme Court case. The states view the actions as a usurpation of agency authority, acting in a manner in which only Congress is authorized. In the case, Bostock v.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

29, the justices will hear oral argument in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy , a case presenting two different themes of the court’s 2023-24 term – efforts to limit the power of federal administrative agencies and decisions arising from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. In Muldrow v. City of St.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 16, 2022

As a requirement of employment, the mission requires regular church attendance, a reference from the applicant’s pastor, and an explanation of the applicant’s relationship with Jesus; the mission also prohibits “homosexual behavior” as non-biblical. Woods , 21-144 , involves a nonprofit ministry that operates a free legal-aid clinic.

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Law 360

JANUARY 28, 2025

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the agency's general counsel said Tuesday thatPresident Donald Trump had removed them,an unprecedented purge that leaves the five-member commission without a quorum. Two Democratic members of the U.S.

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Law 360

APRIL 28, 2021

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has gotten rid of Trump-era restrictions to the agency's pay and demographic data collection and sharing policies, the agency told a California federal judge overseeing a half-dozen states' challenge to the limitations.

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InHouseOps

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The demand is being generated by new manufacturers, investors, and customers who are creating a range of opportunities in space to improve historic space activities and create new products and services – what is loosely known as “new space” or the new space economy. On the military side, the U.S.

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HowAppealing

APRIL 22, 2025

“Angst Builds Inside Federal Agency Over Trumps Moves Against Law Firms; The Trump administration has deployed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in its effort to seek retribution against corporate law firms”: Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Matthew Goldstein, and Kenneth P.

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Law 360

APRIL 4, 2025

Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with an analysis of President Donald Trump's recent executive order aiming to halt collective bargaining between federal agencies and unions, coverage on guidance from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the U.S.

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Above The Law

MARCH 24, 2025

The memorandum directs the heads of the Justice and Homeland Security Departments to seek sanctions against attorneys and law firms who engage in frivolous, unreasonable and vexatious litigation against the United States or in matters that come before federal agencies. That has not yet been the case, but it still very much can be.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders granting three petitions for extensions of small refinery exemptions from renewable fuel standards. On January 22, 2020, the Supreme Court of Mexico invalidated an agency action that would have allowed higher ethanol content in gasoline. Chao , No. 1:19-cv-02826 (D.D.C.).

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JURIST

MARCH 18, 2025

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued letters on Monday to twenty prominent law firms expressing concerns that their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives may contravene federal anti-discrimination laws. EEOC laws cover most employers with at least 15 employees.

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Above The Law

MAY 5, 2025

From Bloomberg Law : President Donald Trumps deal with four law firms contains no specifics about how theyre going to make good on their $500 million pledge of free legal services, but a separate agreement with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requires ongoing reporting about their compliance.

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Above The Law

MARCH 17, 2025

The onslaught continues with 20 Biglaw firms receiving letters from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Acting Chair Andrea Lucas informing them they’re being investigated by the agency. Donald Trump wasn’t lying when he said he wa s going after Biglaw.

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The Estrin Report

MARCH 16, 2025

Initially, we envisioned a lighthearted discussion on emerging job trends in the legal field where opportunities were growing and how professionals could position themselves for success. Some changes bring opportunity, others uncertainty, and all require adaptation. It is without precedent.

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