Employment Litigation, Hostile Environment, Constructive Discharge

Maine’s Highest Court Narrows Scope of Continuing Violation Doctrine in Discrimination Claims

Fisher Phillips on 7/10/2025

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court just handed employers a win by narrowing the application of the “continuing violation” doctrine in discrimination claims under the state’s primary anti-bias law. This doctrine permits...more

Federal Court Rules That Plaintiff’s Claims of Sex Discrimination Against a School District Were Sufficiently Pled

Tucker Arensberg, P.C. on 9/20/2023

Colavecchia v. South Side Area Sch. Dist., No. 2:22-CV-01804-CCW, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 70461 (W.D. Pa. April 21, 2023). The United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania denied South Side Area School...more

Minnesota Supreme Court Clarifies State Law Standards for ‘Severe or Pervasive’ Harassment and Constructive Discharge

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 2/28/2023

On February 8, 2023, the Minnesota Supreme Court issued its first significant decision interpreting the state’s employment discrimination law, the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA), in three years. In a ruling that will...more

Fourth Circuit Says Racial Slur From Owner's Six-Year-Old Son is Evidence of Offensive Working Environment

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 9/6/2022

Over the past decade, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (which includes North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia) has substantially lowered the bar for demonstrating racial harassment in cases where a racial...more

Employer Documentation Saves the Day & Earns Dismissal of Age Bias Lawsuit

Genova Burns LLC on 4/26/2022

On April 4, 2022, in the matter of Jane Rocks, et al. v. PNC Investments LLC, et al., a three-judge Appellate Panel affirmed the Superior Court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of PNC Investments LLC and dismissing the...more

EEOC and Pei Wei Fresh Kitchen Settle Sexual Harassment Lawsuit for $300,000

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 2/6/2020

Restaurant Tolerated a Sexually Hostile Work Environment, Federal Agency Charged - LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Pei Wei Asian Diner, LLC, doing business as Pei Wei Fresh Kitchen in Little Rock, will pay $300,000 to former...more

“What Goes Around, Comes Around” – A Potential Defense to Hostile Work Environment Claims Under the NJ LAD

Genova Burns LLC on 12/12/2019

On November 7, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in Paige v. Atrion Communication Resources, Inc., et al., considered a hostile work environment/sexual harassment claim under the New Jersey Law...more

Fourth Circuit Finds Two Race Discrimination Claims Failed to Allege Sufficiently Hostile Work Conditions

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 9/9/2019

In recent years, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (which includes North Carolina and South Carolina) has lowered the bar for plaintiffs to take racial harassment claims to a jury trial when the alleged conduct involved use...more

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