Showing posts with label Title VII. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Title VII. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 01, 2024

Accommodating Teacher's Anti-Transgender Beliefs Created Undue Hardship for School Under Title VII

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In Kluge v. Brownsburg Community School Corporation , (SD IN, April 30, 2024), an Indiana federal district court in a 46-page opinion that s...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Supreme Court Clarifies Harm Requirement in Title VII Job Transfer Claims

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 In Muldrow v. City of St. Louis , (Sup. Ct., April 17, 2024), the U.S. Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, clarified the extent ...
Thursday, April 11, 2024

8th Circuit Hears Oral Arguments on Employee's Religious Discrimination Claim Over Objection To LGBTQ+ Display Online

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The U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday heard oral arguments in Snyder v. Arconic Corp . ( Audio of full oral arguments .) In the c...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

DOJ Sues California Prisons for Failing to Accommodate Officers' Religious Beard Requirements

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The Department of Justice this week filed suit in a California federal district court seeking to enjoin the California correctional system f...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Denial of Religious Exemption from Vaccine Mandate Did Not Violate Title VII or Constitution

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In White v. University of Washington ,  (WD WA, March 22, 2024), a Washington federal district court rejected Title VII as well as constitut...
Friday, March 22, 2024

7th Circuit: Refusal to Dismiss Under Church Autonomy Doctrine Is Not Appealable Interlocutory Order

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 In Garrick v. Moody Bible Institute ,  (7th Cir., March 18, 2024), the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, held that that...
Tuesday, March 05, 2024

Christian Employers Protected from Requirement to Provide Insurance for Gender Transition Procedures

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 In Christian Employers Alliance v. U.S. EEOC ,  (D ND, March 4, 2024), a North Dakota federal district court enjoined the Department of Hea...

Certiorari Denied in Ministerial Exception Case

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Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court denied review in two companion appeals, Bowes v. Liberty University, Inc.  (Docket No. 23-550) and Liberty ...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Title VII Challenge to Denial of Vaccine Exemption Survives Motion to Dismiss

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In Prodan v. Legacy Health ,  (D OR, Feb. 12, 2024), an Oregon federal district court refused to dismiss a Title VII religious discriminatio...
Friday, February 02, 2024

Muslim Employee Recovers $70,000 From Employer Who Refused Grooming Rule Accommodation

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The EEOC announced on Wednesday that it has entered a consent decree in its lawsuit against Blackwell Security Services, Inc.  The EEOC'...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Court Rules On Class Action Certification of Claims by Religious Objectors to Covid Vaccine

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 In Chavez v. San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District , (ND CA, Jan. 28,2024), a California federal district court refused to certify ...
Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Court Decides 7 Cases of Health Care Employees' Refusal to Receive Covid Vaccine

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 A Delaware federal district court judge yesterday handed down opinions in seven lawsuits against the same medical center that terminated em...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Nurse Sues Clinic for Refusing to Accommodate Her Objection to Prescribing Contraceptives

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A religious discrimination lawsuit was filed last week in a Florida federal district court by a nurse-practitioner who was fired from her po...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

EEOC Religious Discrimination Suit Against Hospital That Refused Vaccine Exemption Settled For $50,000

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The EEOC announced  yesterday that Trinity Health Grand Rapids, a Michigan hospital, has agreed to pay $50,000 in damages to settle a Title ...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

Denial of Vaccine Mandate Exemption for Nurse Is Upheld

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 In St. Hillaire v, Montefiore Medical Center , (SD NY, Jan. 16, 2024), a New York federal district court rejected claims of religious discr...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

School Did Not Violate Title VII in Denying Religious Exemption to Covid Rules

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In Russo v. Patchogue-Medford School District , (ED NY, Jan. 12, 2024), a New York federal district court held that a school district did no...
Thursday, January 04, 2024

Denial of Religious Exemption to Vaccine Mandate Did Not Violate Title VII

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 In Craven v. Shriners Hospital for Children ,  (D OR, Jan. 2, 2024), an Oregon federal district court dismissed a Title VII religious discr...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

EEOC Announces Settlements In 2 Religious Discrimination Lawsuits

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In the last several days, the EEOC has announced settlements in two unrelated Title VII religious discrimination suits filed by the agency. ...
Friday, December 15, 2023

Florida Transgender Teachers Challenge Law That Bars Them from Using Their Preferred Pronouns

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Suit was filed this week in a Florida federal district court by three current and former Florida public-school teachers who identify as tran...
Friday, December 01, 2023

Christian Non-Profit Cannot Rescind Job Offer Because of Same-Sex Marriage

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In McMahon v. World Vision, Inc. ,  (WD WA, Nov. 28, 2023), a Washington federal district court held that a Christian non-profit organizatio...