Defending new restrictions on transgender military service, attorneys for the government told the D.C. Circuit on Monday that there is nothing discriminatory about recognizing that gender dysphoria has been linked to depression and other disorders.
Read moreTRENTON, N.J. (CN) – An appeals court revived a lawsuit Monday where a New Jersey couple is accused of using
Read moreA federal judge sent to trial a black female police officer’s claim of racial and sexual discrimination and retaliation against the city of Jackson, Mississippi.
Read moreA federal judge found it constitutional Wednesday for transit officials in greater Philadelphia to block an advertising campaign that called out racial disparities in mortgage lending.
Read moreA U.S. citizen who is Muslim and wears a hijab claims in a federal complaint that a border patrolman at the San Ysidro, Calif., crossing seized her cellphone and threw her U.S. passport in the trash. She was strip-searched, kicked, called a “sand nigger,” and her passport was not returned, according to the complaint.
Read moreThe Maryland counties of Montgomery and Prince George claim in a federal complaint that Bank of America, Countrywide Financial Corp., Merrill Lynch Mortgage Capital and others of discriminated against blacks in mortgage lending. They also brought a separate, similar complaint against Wells Fargo Bank.
Read moreA federal judge gave final approval Wednesday to a $10 million payment by Uber to settle claims that it underpaid female and minority drivers. The deal includes $2.65 million in attorneys’ fees.
Read moreA 54-year-old Spanish teacher with a hearing impairment claims in a federal discrimination suit that the school district in Beavercreek City, Ohio, unfairly transferred her to teach French, which “requires very discriminating ears,” in an effort to force her out of work.
Read moreA Philadelphia-based Catholic agency fought Tuesday afternoon at the Third Circuit for the right to deny same-sex couples a foster child based on its beliefs about marriage.
Read moreIn the first decision of its new term, the Supreme Court agreed Tuesday with two Arizona firefighters who argued that a federal age-discrimination law applies to state and local government entities with less than 20 employees.
Read moreA lawyer for students suing Harvard over its admissions policy pleaded with the court Friday at closing arguments to slam the door on “the wolf of discrimination.”
Read moreThe Department of Justice is turning to the U.S. Supreme Court to challenge a ruling that a funeral home illegally fired a transgender woman for disclosing her male-to-female transition and planning to dress in a female uniform at work.
Read moreWith the polls set to go to print in less than a year, a federal judge appeared inclined Thursday to begin a trial on Nov. 5 that will determine whether census takers can probe for citizenship in 2020 forms.
Read moreExtending a stay, the Supreme Court shielded Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Monday night from having to testify about why he is adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Read moreA bakery owner who refused to bake a custom wedding cake for a same-sex couple is headed back to court after a judge allowed the state Wednesday to reopen its investigation against her.
Read moreAn attorney for Minnesota videographers who refuse to shoot same-sex weddings argued before an Eighth Circuit panel Tuesday that doing so would violate their religious beliefs.
Read moreTo head off federal litigation over an allegedly racist Oakland ordinance prohibiting public housing residents from loitering in common areas of their housing complexes, the Oakland City Council repealed the decades-old law Tuesday night.
Read moreThe U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce faces a $17 million federal complaint alleging that female employees are subjected to “sexual harassment, sexual assault” and a hostile work environment from the “boys club” directors.
Read moreA Wisconsin school district did not discriminate against a Catholic school on religious grounds when it refused to provide bus service because it is the second Catholic school in the area, the Seventh Circuit ruled Thursday.
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