Employer Liability Issues, Disparate Impact, Class Certification

California Court Grants Preliminary Collective Certification to Job Applicants Claiming Age Discrimination by Artificial...

Husch Blackwell LLP on 7/30/2025

In the closely watched case Mobley v. Workday, the Northern District of California recently granted preliminary certification of a collective action for age discrimination claims against Workday’s AI-based applicant...more

7th Circuit Reverses Denial of Class Certification for Disparate Impact Subclasses

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 1/19/2022

On January 6, 2022, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois erred in denying class certification to putative subclasses of unsuccessful Black job applicants...more

California Superior Court Grants Class Certification in Equal Pay Case

Littler on 6/12/2020

On April 30, 2020, Judge V. Raymond Swope of San Mateo Superior Court granted plaintiffs’ motion for class certification in Jewett et al. v. Oracle America, Inc. In doing so, the court certified a class of more than 4,100...more

Say It Again: No Common Question Binds a Class Subject to Thousands of Individualized Pay Decisions

Orrick - Employment Law and Litigation on 12/12/2018

Echoing an increasingly familiar refrain, another district court has declined to certify a class of women bringing pay equity claims on the basis that they did not present a common question capable of producing a common...more

Federal Court Leaves Opportunity For A “Compelling” Exhaustion Argument

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 8/16/2018

Seyfarth Synopsis: The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey recently issued a ruling with respect to Defendants’ “compelling” exhaustion argument that Plaintiffs failed to exhaust administrative remedies with...more

Class Certification Granted In Goldman Sachs Gender Discrimination Litigation

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 4/6/2018

In a 49-page opinion issued last week, Judge Analisa Torres of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted class certification to a group of women alleging that Goldman Sachs systemically...more

U.S. Census Bureau Down for the Count after Certification Ruling in Criminal Background Check Case

Orrick - Employment Law and Litigation on 7/9/2014

Last Tuesday, a Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted partial class certification in a case where plaintiffs allege that the United States Census Bureau used arrest...more

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