Blog Posts in August, 2010

According to the New York Times , the Obama administration has started investigating pay practices throughout the health care industry after hospitals around the country have been sued based on the ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently revived an engineer’s job bias claim , determining that it was error for the trial court to require the jury find “personal knowledge of an ...

A Chicago police officer has recently filed a lawsuit claiming he is entitled to overtime compensation for hours spent responding to email off-hours. According to National Public Radio (NPR) , the ...

A recent Ninth Circuit court opinion held that a worker whose vision affected her ability to walk and drive after dark was entitled to protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act . The ADA ...

Earlier this week, five computer-network technicians filed suit against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. , claiming that they failed to receive all overtime compensation due. At issue, whether the technicians ...

A recent Seventh Circuit opinion held that honoring a patient’s racist request constituted a violation of a black nursing assistant’s rights under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act . In Chaney v. ...