Plaintiff appealed the dismissal of his employment-discrimination claim with prejudice, which the district court ordered as a sanction for plaintiff’s failure to obey a discovery order. Where plaintiff was advised by opposing counsel that depositions would end by 5 p.m. ...

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Where a plaintiff, who sued her railroad company employer for disability discrimination and retaliation, challenged the grant of summary judgment to the defendant, the district court properly found that the plaintiff was not qualified for her dispatcher job because she ...

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Missouri’s attorney general believes that federal law doesn’t protect LGBTQ people from discrimination. Attorney General Eric Schmitt was among GOP attorneys general nationwide who signed a U.S. Supreme Court brief outlining the position Friday. The attorneys general are wading into a legal battle over ...

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Missouri’s attorney general believes that federal law doesn’t protect LGBTQ people from discrimination. Attorney General Eric Schmitt was among GOP attorneys general nationwide who signed a U.S. Supreme Court brief outlining the position Friday. The attorneys general are wading into a legal battle over ...

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Plaintiff sued defendant, her employer, for employment discrimination following her termination, after defendant laid off plaintiff pursuant to a company restructuring. The district court granted summary judgment to defendant, after denying plaintiff’s motion to strike an email attached to defendant’s ...

Tagged with: discrimination McDonnell Douglas Test Termination

Plaintiff filed suit against defendants, her former employer and several of its executives, alleging retaliation, discrimination and hostile work environment. The district court granted summary judgment to defendants. Where the record reflected that several individual defendants were not decision-makers and ...

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Plaintiff appealed the district court’s grant of summary judgment to defendant. On appeal, plaintiff argued that defendant willfully violated the automatic stay and committed discrimination under 11 U.S.C. §525(a). Where a municipality took no action on an arrest warrant taken ...

Tagged with: Adversary Proceeding discrimination Willful Violation of Automatic Stay

Facebook says it will make advertisements for jobs, loans and credit card offers searchable for all U.S. users following a legal settlement designed to eliminate discrimination on its platform. The plan disclosed in an internal report Sunday voluntarily expands on a commitment ...

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Facebook says it will make advertisements for jobs, loans and credit card offers searchable for all U.S. users following a legal settlement designed to eliminate discrimination on its platform. The plan disclosed in an internal report Sunday voluntarily expands on a commitment ...

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Police in a western Michigan city already under scrutiny for alleged discrimination are defending their actions in the arrest of a 12-year-old black boy, saying they had to handcuff the child while they sorted out a confusing situation. Grand Rapids ...

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Police in a western Michigan city already under scrutiny for alleged discrimination are defending their actions in the arrest of a 12-year-old black boy, saying they had to handcuff the child while they sorted out a confusing situation. Grand Rapids ...

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