On June 5, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously ruled in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services that plaintiffs alleging employment discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 are not...more
6/12/2025
/ Affirmative Action ,
Ames v Ohio Department of Youth Services ,
Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Appeals ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Employer Responsibilities ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Employment Litigation ,
Reverse Discrimination ,
SCOTUS ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Title VII
On April 17, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Muldrow v. St. Louis that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discriminatory job transfers, even if the harm is not “significant.”...more
On June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down its unanimous decision in Groff v. DeJoy, which heightened the burden that employers bear in proving that an employee’s request for a religious...more
7/21/2023
/ Civil Rights Act ,
De Minimus Doctrine ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Groff v DeJoy ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Religious Accommodation ,
Religious Discrimination ,
SCOTUS ,
Title VII ,
Undue Hardship
On February 22, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a decision in Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt, holding that a manager who supervised a dozen employees and made over $200,000 annually was not...more
As we previously wrote, one of the biggest FTC decisions in decades was recently argued before the United States Supreme Court. And on Thursday, April 22, 2021, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against the Federal Trade...more
On January 13, 2021, the United States Supreme Court heard an oral argument in a pivotal challenge to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) historic practice of obtaining monetary damages under a statutory provision that, on...more
Potential plaintiffs and freshly sued defendants often discount the importance of damages analysis when it comes to litigation planning and execution. After all, disputes over liability receive far more attention during...more
6/8/2016
/ Compensatory Damages ,
Consequential Damages ,
Damages ,
Employment Discrimination ,
GA Supreme Court ,
Guarantors ,
Indemnity ,
Rule 30(b)(6) ,
SCOTUS ,
Statistical Sampling ,
Tyson Foods v Bouaphakeo