Seyfarth Synopsis: In Savage, et al. v. The City of Springfield, Case No. 3:18-CV-30614, 2022 LEXIS 124587 (D. Mass. July 14, 2022), a federal court in Massachusetts recently denied Plaintiffs’ motion for class...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Following a jury trial in a federal court in Mississippi in an EEOC-initiated lawsuit alleging that Black adult club dancers were subjected to race discrimination, where their employer was found liable of...more
A federal district court in Maryland recently denied in part an employer’s motion to dismiss a race discrimination action brought on behalf of African-born security guards by the EEOC, and instead granted the EEOC’s motion to...more
5/24/2018
/ Civil Rights Act ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Disparate Treatment ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Hostile Environment ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
National Origin Discrimination ,
Race Discrimination ,
Title VII
Seyfarth Synopsis: Four African-American teachers alleged that their school district employer discriminated against them on the basis of race by failing to hire them as assistant principals, and filed a motion for class...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: After a Fifth Circuit decision affirming a ruling by a U.S. District Court in Texas allowed the EEOC to seek compensatory and punitive damages in its high-profile Title VII pattern or practice race...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In a class action alleging that the criminal background policy of Washington D.C.’s local transit authority had a disparate impact on African-Americans, a federal district court recently certified three...more
4/11/2017
/ Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Criminal Background Checks ,
Discrimination ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
FRCP 23 ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Job Applicants ,
Race Discrimination ,
Transit Authority ,
Transportation Industry
Seyfarth Synopsis: In the high-profile EEOC race discrimination litigation against Bass Pro, the Court denied the EEOC’s motion for a ruling that would have allowed it to include in its § 706 claims those individuals who had...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: After the City of Jacksonville stopped following a class action consent decree that required it to hire a proportionate number of black and white firefighters, the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Eleventh...more
8/31/2016
/ Affirmative Action ,
Class Action ,
Consent Decrees ,
Contempt ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Firemen ,
Judicial Dissolution ,
Laches ,
Motion to Show Cause ,
Public Employees ,
Race Discrimination ,
Unduly Prejudicial
Seyfarth Synopsis: Court denied employer’s motion for summary judgment in EEOC race and/or national origin discrimination case involving the termination of non-English speaking employees.
In EEOC v. Wisconsin Plastics,...more
In what has become an oft-used recipe in the EEOC cookbook of Title VII retaliation litigation, the government has once again utilized the strategy of taking an employer’s deposition and thereafter moving for summary...more
4/26/2016
/ Adverse Employment Action ,
But For Causation ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Defamation ,
Depositions ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Motion for Summary Judgment ,
National Origin Discrimination ,
Popular ,
Protected Activity ,
Race Discrimination ,
Retaliation ,
Title VII ,
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