discrimination
Gerrymandering Suit
The Fifth Circuit ruled against four white voters who sued Dallas County, claiming its 2011 redistricting plan for electing county commissioners was racially discriminatory because it provided only one “Anglo-majority district.” The court found the plaintiffs could not prove the plan amounted to “racial gerrymandering.”
Read moreInsurance
Standing Raven aka Doug Tobin claims State Farm Insurance refused to cover the theft of his fishing boat and trailer because of racial discrimination against him, as a member of the Squaxin Indian tribe, in Pierce County Court, Wash.
Read moreVermont Settles With Immigrants Over Deportation Crackdown
The Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles agreed as part of a settlement Wednesday to stop sharing registration information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Read morePastor Loses Suit Over Gay-Conversion Videos on Vimeo
A federal magistrate threw out a discrimination suit against Vimeo from a California pastor who says he is the product of gay-conversion therapy.
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‘OK, Boomer’: Meme Gets Air Time in High Court Case
Chief Justice John Roberts treaded into meme territory at Supreme Court oral arguments Wednesday with a hypothetical scenario about an older worker who encounters a Millennial-aged hiring manager.
Read morePastor Barred Over Gay-Conversion Videos Fights Vimeo
Vimeo bans users from extolling purported gay-conversion therapy, but a pastor who identifies as a “former homosexual” told a federal judge Monday that the video-hosting website shut down his account in bad faith.
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Fourth Circuit Blocks Discharge of HIV-Positive Airmen
The Fourth Circuit on Friday upheld a ruling that blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to discharge Air Force members because of their HIV-positive status.
Read moreAbusive Teacher
A Native American claims a teacher at Cibola High School in Albuquerque called her a “bloody Indian” in front of her 11th-grade English class, “moments after she cut off the braids of another female Native American student against her will in front of the same class,” in Bernalillo County Court.
Read moreDon’t Speak Farsi
A woman claims Costco fired her for speaking Farsi to Farsi-speaking customers, in Orange County Court, California.
Read moreBattle for Legislative Captioning in Florida Will Continue
The 11th Circuit upheld a federal ruling Friday afternoon, refusing to dismiss a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by a deaf rights advocacy group over Florida’s alleged refusal to provide captioning for live and archived video recordings of legislative proceedings.
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Big Win for ‘Ethical Vegans’ in UK Work Tribunal
British workers who practice “ethical veganism” to protect animals secured a big win in an employment tribunal when a judge ruled Friday that they are entitled to legal protection from job discrimination.
Read moreSuing Apple
Trieu Pham, an App Reviewer, claims Apple fired him illegally because he approved a Guo Media App, (as did at least three other Apple employees), which the Chinese government prohibited, in Santa Clara County Court.
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Fired British Vegan Files Landmark Discrimination Case
A British employment tribunal began a landmark hearing Thursday on whether a strict form of veganism is a philosophical belief that must be protected in law.
Read morePE Punishment
A federal court in Texas dismissed a mother’s gender discrimination suit against the Dallas Independent School District and a gym teacher relating to the punishment of her daughter for failing to wear proper clothes to P.E. class one day. The student was forced to do 260 “ceiling jumps,” was bedridden for a few days after the incident, hospitalized for almost a week and diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis, which is characterized by the breakdown of muscle tissue.
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Sexist Slurs Mar Taiwan Presidential Elections
Taiwan has forged a reputation as Asia’s most progressive democracy and it boasts a higher proportion of women in parliament than anywhere else in the region — yet misogynistic insults have littered its presidential race.
Read moreThe White House
Arlene Delgado sued the Trump campaign, Sean Spicer, Reince Priebus and Stephen Bannon in federal court for breach of contract and discrimination, claiming they refused to hire her for a proffered White House job after they learned she was pregnant by her supervisor, Jason Miller.
Read moreImmigration
Make the Road New York et al. sued the United States in federal court, claiming its recent “public charge” policies for immigrants purposely discriminates against people of color and in favor of wealthy white immigrants.
Read moreUber Settlement
Uber agreed to a $4.4 million settlement Wednesday with workers who say they were discriminated against based on their gender. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found the company permitted a “culture of sexual harassment and retaliation against individuals who complained about such harassment.”
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ACLU Challenges Tennessee City’s Swift Ban on Surgical Abortion
Two days after an abortion clinic opened its doors March 1 in Mount Juliet, a small city near Nashville, the city’s commission held a first reading of an amendment to its zoning ordinances that placed strong restrictions on where surgical abortions could be performed in the city.
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