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Federal Court Strikes Down Part of EEOC Rule Requiring Accommodations for Elective Abortion Under the PWFA

As we previously reported, in April 2024 the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued its final regulations implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). Among other things, the rule stated that...more

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Federal Court Vacated Gender Identity Portions of EEOC Harassment Guidance: Employer Uncertainty Remains

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A federal district court in Texas on May 15, 2025, vacated the gender identity parts of the 2024 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace (the EEOC Guidance). The...more

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Federal Court Strikes Down Key Portions of EEOC Harassment Guidance

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On May 15, a Texas federal court vacated portions of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace, concluding that the agency’s expanded interpretation of “sex”...more

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Federal Court Vacates Portion of PWFA Final Rule Requiring Accommodation for Elective Abortions

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On May 21, 2025, Judge David C. Joseph of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a ruling vacating the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s final rule under the 2022 Pregnant Workers...more

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Federal District Court Vacates EEOC Guidance on LGBTQ+ Discrimination

Last week, a federal district court in Texas granted summary judgment to the State of Texas in a lawsuit challenging portions of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s workplace harassment guidance dealing with...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Litigate or Arbitrate? Sixth Circuit Decision Looks at Timing of Sexual Harassment Claim

Can you compel arbitration with an employee who is alleging sexual harassment? You may recall that in 2022, Congress enacted the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act (EFAA), which precludes...more

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Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Under Fire: What Employers Need to Know About the Latest Legal Challenges

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The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) rules mandating that employers provide abortion-related accommodations are facing intensifying legal challenges now that a federal appeals court allowed a group of states to challenge...more

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Eighth Circuit Finds State Standing to Challenge EEOC’s Pregnancy Accommodation Rules

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In Tennessee v. EEOC, the Eighth Circuit reversed a district court’s decision and reinstated a lawsuit by 17 states (led by the Tennessee and Arkansas attorneys general (AG)), holding that these states have standing to sue...more

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Loper Bright's Potential Effect on Federal Labor and Employment Law: Possible Consequences for Agencies and Practitioners

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On 28 June 2024, the US Supreme Court in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (Loper Bright) overturned the 40-year-old Chevron doctrine, which required courts to defer to federal agencies’ reasonable interpretations of...more

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No More Chevron Deference: What Does This Mean for Employers?

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From 1984 until June 2024, a reviewing court had to defer to a federal agency’s reasonable interpretation of ambiguous statutes, even if the court would have interpreted the statute differently. In June 2024, the U.S. Supreme...more

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How the Supreme Court’s Loper Decision Overturns Chevron Doctrine and Impacts Employment Law

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The Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, __ U.S. __ (2024), overturning the 40-year-old Chevron doctrine, drastically reshapes administrative law....more

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Chevron Overturned, Federal Agency Deference Over: What Does This Mean for Employers and Educators?

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On June 28, 2024, in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, upending 40 years of judicial precedent holding that federal courts should defer to...more

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Anticipating the Impact on Employers Post-Chevron Being Overturned

On June 28, 2024, the United States Supreme Court decided Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (Loper), overturning and eliminating the Chevron doctrineor Chevron deference, a legal principle established by a 1984 decision of...more

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The Chevron Doctrine Has Been Overturned: What That Means for Employers

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On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in the case of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. In a 6-3 decision authored by the Court’s Chief Justice, John Roberts, SCOTUS overturned its decision in...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

How Recent Changes to Administrative Law May Alter Labor and Employment Law as We Know It

Few legal developments sound less sleep-inducing than ​“changes to federal rulemaking authority.” But don’t mistake dullness for a lack of impact: a pair of Supreme Court decisions just issued will arguably have the single...more

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Demise of Chevron Deference Sends Shockwaves Through Labor and Employment Regulatory Landscape

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In just a month since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Chevron Deference Doctrine, district courts across the country have blocked several federal agency rules, including an injunction in Texas barring enforcement of the...more

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Post-Chevron Employment Law Regulations: What to Expect

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Forty years ago, the US Supreme Court’s decision in Chevron USA, Inc. v. National Resources Defense Council, 46 US 837 (1984), upended administrative law practice. In brief, that case, for which the “Chevron doctrine” is...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

So Long, Chevron: What The Elimination Of Agency Deference Means For Employers And The Future Of Labor And Employment Law

Generally speaking, it’s difficult to drum up excitement about administrative law (except amongst those of us who deal regularly in the labor and employment law arena and other highly regulated areas of law). That has now...more

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A Post-Chevron Era: What Employers Need to Know About the End of the Chevron Doctrine

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On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, eliminating a fundamental principle of administrative law. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court overturned Chevron...more

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Practical Guidance on Labor and Employment Issues in a Post-Chevron World

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With the US Supreme Court’s June 28 decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Department of Commerce, the four-decades Chevron doctrine is no longer. While the Court’s decision has altered...more

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Thrown for a Lope—Supreme Court Decision in Loper Bright Enterprises Overturning Chevron Likely to Impact Employer Practices

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, No. 22-451, June 28, 2024, overruled long-standing precedent under which courts were to provide substantial deference to...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

The death of Chevron

You may be asking. What is Chevron deference? How did it die? Why should I care? All fair questions. I will start by answering the last one. If you own, operate, or manage a business covered by the complex web of federal...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Supreme Court Overturns Landmark Chevron Decision: Expect Impact on Employment Decisions

On June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Chevron decision, which had required courts to uphold a federal agency’s interpretation of a statute as long as it was reasonable. Now, courts are required to...more

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Supreme Court Casts Down Long-Standing Chevron Deference

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On June 28, 2024, the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in a pair of consolidated cases, Loper Bright Enterprises et al. v. Gina Raimondo and Relentless Inc. et al. v. Department of Commerce. ...more

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The Chevron Doctrine is Dead. Long Live the Administrative State.

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Last week, the administrative state’s foundation shook as the Supreme Court overruled Chevron, holding that federal administrative agencies are not entitled to deference in interpreting statutes and that...more

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